I have a big anxiousity disorder.?

Question

I have extreme anxiousity, I worry about everything. And sometimes I make myself feel a certain way, like dizzy or nasushous. This girl, fainted in front of me, and I have been extremely worried I am gonna faint aswell. I used to have a bit of acrophobia [fear of leaving the house] which i still have a bit of. I scare myself. I worry so much. I see a therpist, it doesnt help. I have loads of depression. I had a h**l of a life.

ADVICE!

Answer 1

coping skills and the thing to believe

Answer 2

Get People To Be Around You!

Close Friends-Family.

With Them Around You'll Feel More Confident, And Safer.

Answer 3

   My advice to you would be to take it step by step.  First you can start by just going to the grocery store.  You could even go with a friend.  As you get more comfortable you can go more places.  Eventually you could be more comfortable leaving the house.

    You could spend time with a close friend to maybe cheer you up.  As for fainting I would have some water with me and maybe some medication from your doctor if you start getting dizzy.

Hope I helped!  

Answer 4

I know this is something that will probably freak you out to try... but try anti-depressants.

I have a huge phobia of vomiting, and at age 13 my anxiety got so bad that I would not eat anything except a bag of popcorn for the whole day. I could not go to school because I would have over 9 panic attacks in one day..  It destroyed my body and my mind.  The depression got so bad that I could not function and do anything.

The doctors wanted to put me on Zoloft... of course, I have a huge phobia of vomiting and so I was terrified of side-effects.  I refused to take them. It got so bad.  I was 60 pounds at age 13.  Constant panic attacks every hour.  Dizzy, nauseous, faint... it was so bad.. so eventually they put me in the mental hospital... which forced me to take the meds.

After 3 days I woke up feeling so much better!  I had energy, was starting to look at food without being scared, and started talking to the other inpatients.  The meds helped me so much, and once I got past the fear of taking them, they saved my life.  My body had taken so much from it.

I recently went off the medications.  My father passed away and it hurt so bad that it felt like the meds weren't doing anything.  But that's normal.  That was grief.

2 weeks ago I had a major anxiety attack and I've been having constant panic attacks since.  I have started taking meds again... 3 days ago, and they have not yet kicked in.  I am so mad at myself for stopping them in the first place.  

Really, talk to your parents and doctor about some SSRI's.  Like Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro, etc.  You will feel so much better.  You may have to take the pills for a long time, but if you start, you will look back and cringe at seeing what you were.  They saved my life, they can save yours too.

I'm just waiting for mine to kick in again becaus I have not been able to eat a thing for 2 weeks.  You can start feeling some relief within a couple of days (I'm feeling a little more calm now) but the full effect doesn't show until about 6 weeks.  You just gotta tough it out by then... but it goes uphill from the time you start them.  So try it out, okay?  I am 18 now and have always had these problems.  And I hate seeing myself in someone else, struggling through life because of anxiety.  

Keep me posted.  If you need support email me at [e-mail].   I'm always there to help others who are going through what I have and what I am.