Does anyone suffer from anxiety disorder?

[Core407]

I'm looking into seeing a quack, but I just would like to hear some people's experiences with going to a psychiatrist for something like this.

 

[Que-Ever]

Anxiety disorder? Like, nervous habits, or am I totally off?

Anyway, whatever it is, why see a shrink? Who says you have anxiety disorders in the first place, and why should you believe them?

 

[Is This Tea]

Anyway, whatever it is, why see a shrink? Who says you have anxiety disorders in the first place, and why should you believe them?

That’s the last thing you should say to someone if they really are experiencing anxiety disorder.

 

[ktimekiller]

First of all, what is it?

 

[Que-Ever]

Oh shit, I think I just realized what it is. Damn my anti-establishment nature!

 

[Vass]

I have a friend who has this disorder, she is always quite talkitive and the nature. She takes medicine for it though I don't know what.

 

[Is This Tea]

I had it… I kept noticing that my heart rate was increasing and I thought that I was having a heart attack. I thought I was getting nervous because I had noticed that I was getting light headed and had heart palpitations. It turns out that the anxiety was the cause of the heart palpitation and not the other way around. Once I understood that it was actually a panic attack and not a physical thing…. I just stopped paying attention to it… it went away because I didn’t reinforce it once I understood it wasn’t really a danger. It’s caused by the same chemical imbalance that causes depression and antidepressants are prescribed for it frequently.

 

[Core407]

I get really uncomfortable in public and think that people are starring at me. I avoid eye contact with everyone, which makes talking to people very difficult and that goes for people I already know. I also avoid being infront of an audience and when I have to give presentations, my hands start shaking, voice begins trembling and I'm just a mess.

I just hope they have some wonder drug for me.

Edit: I should have probably mentioned it was social anxiety disorder.

 

[Vass]

There is usually a disorder or disease everyone has. I do weird things when under presentation as well but not to that extent at all. My voice changes to a different pitch and my hands tremble a little bit. I do however have a normal heart rate and bloodpressure always so it's probably just extreme nervousness :| I used to think that my hands would sweat extremely excessivly under nervousness and stress but I found out that that too was an uncontrolable disease I had called palmar hyperhidrosis, which means my sweat glands are outta control.

 

[ktimekiller]

Sounds more like shyness and low selfesteem to me -_-

EDIT: I meant for core

 

[Slacker]

I'm pretty sure I have a mild case of it, but then again I'm pretty sure that I have a case of everything. I get really anxious in social situations, particually on the phone.

 

[Core407]

Sounds more like shyness and low selfesteem to me -_-

EDIT: I meant for core

I've probably had it since I was 12 and I'm 100% sure it has something to do with my twin brother. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong when you'd prefer your own brother dead.

Edit: Yeah, I avoid the phone at all costs.

 

[Slacker]

I get really uncomfortable in public and think that people are starring at me. I avoid eye contact with everyone, which makes talking to people very difficult and that goes for people I already know. I also avoid being infront of an audience and when I have to give presentations, my hands start shaking, voice begins trembling and I'm just a mess.

I just hope they have some wonder drug for me.

Edit: I should have probably mentioned it was social anxiety disorder.

Sounds like that may have to do with Social Anxiety, but then again, I think it's perfectly normal to lock up when giving presentations.

 

[dfc05]

I have problems making eye contact with people, and really serious issues with talking on the phone. I always have to keep a pen and something to write on while on the phone, just so I can occupy my hands. I had to make some orders for work and I was on the phone writing on this piece of paper -- writing things down, crossing things out, writing things down again, and then... I realized that I was drawing this arrow on the page and tracing over it, over and over again, and it got to be a really huge dark arrow.

I have issues.

I also have obsessive compulsive tendencies and what I term "email paranoia". I have so many obsessive compulsive tendencies that it would take a while to list and describe them all.

 

[Geogaddi]

I'm diganosed Obsessive Compulsive. I used to wash my hands until the skin began to peel.

 

[Core407]

I have problems making eye contact with people, and really serious issues with talking on the phone. I always have to keep a pen and something to write on while on the phone, just so I can occupy my hands. I had to make some orders for work and I was on the phone writing on this piece of paper -- writing things down, crossing things out, writing things down again, and then... I realized that I was drawing this arrow on the page and tracing over it, over and over again, and it got to be a really huge dark arrow.

I have issues.

I also have obsessive compulsive tendencies and what I term "email paranoia". I have so many obsessive compulsive tendencies that it would take a while to list and describe them all.

Yeah, I'm sort of in the same boat, but my issue with talking to people on the phone is more to do with my vocal insecurities I know when I was looking at cars to buy, my dad would always tell me to call and set things up and just the thought of that alone made me anxious.

I also do this weird thing when I switch words around in a sentence. It'll happen pretty often and I always feel like an idiot after and I'm sure other people just think I'm weird.

I really just want to go see a shrink and try and fix my life up, but it's really hard. I've hinted at my depression to my parents, but they sort of shrug it off and figure I'll grow out of it. Worst part is that I put on a ridiculous front and I'm compulsively lying to everyone I know.

 

[Tyguy]

If its affecting your life, go see a therapist. It is the best thing you can do, and wont hurt. There are literally dozens of medications available out there and millions of people with disorders, so dont feel alone. Talk it out with a therapist and try and go on something for it. Personally, I have OCD, and have found talking with someone helps big time.

 

[Que-Ever]

I'm sure that this probably won't help much at all, but seriously, if you mess up when talking, or on the phone, or whatever, nobody really cares. Just correct yourself and don't make a big deal out of it. Just think, if someone make that mistake while saying something to you, would you care? Hopefully, not. It's not a big deal, not a problem or anything.

 

[dfc05]

Yeah, I'm sort of in the same boat, but my issue with talking to people on the phone is more to do with my vocal insecurities I know when I was looking at cars to buy, my dad would always tell me to call and set things up and just the thought of that alone made me anxious.

I also do this weird thing when I switch words around in a sentence. It'll happen pretty often and I always feel like an idiot after and I'm sure other people just think I'm weird.

I really just want to go see a shrink and try and fix my life up, but it's really hard. I've hinted at my depression to my parents, but they sort of shrug it off and figure I'll grow out of it. Worst part is that I put on a ridiculous front and I'm compulsively lying to everyone I know.

Well for depression, honestly I think you will grow out of it. I used to be pretty sad in high school but now I'm mostly happy again. Sometimes I think I need to see a shrink to fix my OCD tendencies but I'm actually kind of scared to do it, so I just deal with it. I've heard that my university offers free mental help services though.... If I were 100% sure they could keep this anonymous and you wouldn't have to show them your ID, I would consider going.

To Geogaddi:
I never had the OCD washing problem. That one sounds like the toughest one to have to deal with.

I've been counting my steps in multiples of four, for the past 13 years. Stairsteps are especially bad. When there's only three stairs, I get frustrated. Why couldn't they put in another stairstep and make it four? I used to always have to take the first stairstep on the left leg, but now I've forced myself not to care so much about which foot I use to take the first step .

I also keep thinking that I forgot to turn off the lights or lock the door. I've gone through the whole checking thing a few times -- the part where you think you didn't lock your door, and you're halfway down the street, and you turn around and go back to check it. Then after that, you think that by checking it maybe you possibly unlocked it, or you just didn't check well enough, and you feel like you need to check again. There's a scary account of this guy who had a really bad OCD checking problem where, every time he drives, he thinks he may have accidentally run someone over, so he had to keep driving back to check along the side of the road for a dead body. ;(

I also have problems with almost everything to do with emails. I have problems writing them because I think I should say things in a better way, so I'll read it over multiple times. Then, I have a hard time actually sending it, because I think it won't work. And everything you write just disappears when you hit the send button, so sometimes I have to copy-paste it into Notepad so I have it in case I need to send it again. Just to make sure, I usually check my sent mail folder to see if it says it sent (which I still do not trust). I've seriously considered BCC'ing myself on every email I send, but I don't do this because that would be going a bit too far, and I'm also afraid that the B part of "BCC" won't work and then people will know that I'm sending myself a copy of the email, and they'll either (1) figure out I'm insane; or (2) think my inbox is so lonely that I have to email myself. Cancelling messages is a whole other issue. I get paranoid that when I hit cancel, it won't actually cancel but might try to send. So to prevent this, I'll go through the To: field and the subject line and the body and delete everything. This way, it can't get sent to anyone, and just in case it does, it will hopefully be an empty message.

I have the same issue with posting on this forum. I usually copy everything first, then refresh the page to see if I posted. If I type something up and don't want to post it, I have to delete everything first, and then I can't simply click on a link because this might make me post. So I either close out the window, or hit the back button.

 

[Glirk Dient]

I mess up all the time when I talk. I blame it on being dyslexic. I look like a dumbass but I don't care. Everyone does it. Just repeat what you meant to say and move on. If you make a big deal out of it then it will become just that. Just build up your confidence and you will be fine.

Also a lot of people put on a front. I was a weird kid when I was in high school and around then and my life blew. I then realized talking to people and hanging out with friends was a lot of fun as being a hardcore gamer eats up too much valuable time and really hinders you(me at least). Go out there and hang out with friend, get to know what clothes people are wearing so you can get some good looking stuff and after that you can move on to picking girls up. It sounds conformist but getting girls is the biggest confidence boost. Even ugly ones boost your ego at the start as its still a girl...usually.

 

[Dog--]

I have it, it causes me to get extremely sick (like I need to puke), it's a chemical inbalance in my brain, for example, every day before school I get sick, but when I force myself to go, and when I get there and all my friends and stuff are there, it goes away completely, I just ignore the sickness in the morning, I used to take some meds, like Xanax and anti-depressants, but all they did was make me tired, didn't do much, if you have something similar to mine, just ignore it, and if it doesn't go away when whatever your nervous about happens, then see a shrink.. I saw a psychologist, I can honestly say nothng she said helped me one bit, she was talking about closing my eyes and imagening myself somewhere nice... I never even tried it.. I'm happy with what I got going on.. It's wierd, when I do a presentation or something like that in front of like 30 people, I'm less nervous than most normal people.. I used to have panic attacks and stuff like that, but now I just try not to think about it, and it hasn't happened for 3 years (I found out about it 4 years ago).. I used to be normal, I never got sick before school, then one day, boom. Just like that I got it, kinda wierd, eh?

 

[MiccyNarc]

I also keep thinking that I forgot to turn off the lights or lock the door. I've gone through the whole checking thing a few times -- the part where you think you didn't lock your door, and you're halfway down the street, and you turn around and go back to check it. Then after that, you think that by checking it maybe you possibly unlocked it, or you just didn't check well enough, and you feel like you need to check again. There's a scary account of this guy who had a really bad OCD checking problem where, every time he drives, he thinks he may have accidentally run someone over, so he had to keep driving back to check along the side of the road for a dead body.

I've done that before.

 

[PvtRyan]

There's not many people that are truly confident about themselves I think. There's just the ones that can shrug off their inconfidence when needed and act confident and those who can't (the shy ones).

 

[bbson john]

I don't have anxiety. I am not anxious. I ain't... I AIN'T. Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Really no anxiety disorder, but schizophrenia

 

[Terminator]

Yeah, i had this when i was 18, was caused by stress.

The stress was because i didn't know if i was going to prison, chucked out of college or just getting away with it (Which i did) from an incident at college.
That was over the whole christmas holiday.

Basically i ****ed me up a bit, made me feel ill a lot and develop anxiety.

Basically it caused my neurotransmitters to be depleted, thus causing the imbalance.

St johns wort contains hypericin which helps restore function of neurotransmitter production, i recomend you try it.

All this was a self diagnosis btw, i have never used a doctor.

 

[Puzzlemaker]

I have it, I take medication for it or I... yaa, not fun.

 

[Parlez]

I myself do not have this disorder. As far as seeing a shrink about it that is totally up to you. If you really feel the need to go to a shrink go for one day see how it makes you feel, then if it makes you feel better keep going back. Like I said this whole thing is based on the type of person that you are.

 

[Core407]

I mess up all the time when I talk. I blame it on being dyslexic. I look like a dumbass but I don't care. Everyone does it. Just repeat what you meant to say and move on. If you make a big deal out of it then it will become just that. Just build up your confidence and you will be fine.

Also a lot of people put on a front. I was a weird kid when I was in high school and around then and my life blew. I then realized talking to people and hanging out with friends was a lot of fun as being a hardcore gamer eats up too much valuable time and really hinders you(me at least). Go out there and hang out with friend, get to know what clothes people are wearing so you can get some good looking stuff and after that you can move on to picking girls up. It sounds conformist but getting girls is the biggest confidence boost. Even ugly ones boost your ego at the start as its still a girl...usually.

I was an odd kid for the first two years of highschool and then bam, I started talking to people and shit. So I made a buch of friends who all hung out together, but it wasn't actually me, but just me going along with things they said or did. At first I was with a bunch of skaters, but I don't actually skate. We were just friends and just talked about random shit, but I felt like I wasn't beeing myself. Anyways, after a while I moved on to another group and then another group and then another group, and all these groups weren't my style at all, but I just talked to them for some reason. When we would get out of school though, I just stayed home playing games and shit and now I'm still doing the same thing.

 

[Glirk Dient]

I was an odd kid for the first two years of highschool and then bam, I started talking to people and shit. So I made a buch of friends who all hung out together, but it wasn't actually me, but just me going along with things they said or did. At first I was with a bunch of skaters, but I don't actually skate. We were just friends and just talked about random shit, but I felt like I wasn't beeing myself. Anyways, after a while I moved on to another group and then another group and then another group, and all these groups weren't my style at all, but I just talked to them for some reason. When we would get out of school though, I just stayed home playing games and shit and now I'm still doing the same thing.

Everyone does this. People change who they are all the time. That is how you find the real you. You keep changing and adapting to styles until you create your own and find yourself. It prolly won't happen till your older and advance more socially as like me you missed out on plenty of years to advance in that area. Just keep working at it and steal cool things people do and always find a way to improve yourself. If you don't like something about yourself find a way to make it better. I used to be a fatass that played games all the time. I didn't like that so I lost 40lbs, got friends, went shopping with girls and now I walk into a place and can pick out many different girls checking me out. Not to mention I have some game so I always end up with girls liking me, whether or not I want to as I tend to be flirty. It still raises ego to know theres more than a couple girls out there that like you.

Also check out the forums at www.tuckermax.com. There is a lot of advice and suggestion stuff like that to basically improve yourself and be better than everyone else. Just look around on the forums there.

 

[Saketi]

I have depression, had it over a yr now, and i too get what u have in public alot, especially when waiting in a cue in a shop, that the hardest part, sometime i feel like walking out or collapsing as i go all dizzy and faint.

Anti-depressants were offered to me, but i declined as some people have side effects to them. Try talking some some mates about it, might make you feel better.

 

[Core407]

I have depression, had it over a yr now, and i too get what u have in public alot, especially when waiting in a cue in a shop, that the hardest part, sometime i feel like walking out or collapsing as i go all dizzy and faint.

Anti-depressants were offered to me, but i declined as some people have side effects to them. Try talking some some mates about it, might make you feel better.

No, talking to people doesn't do shit and it seems like anti-depressants don't work that well. I guess I'll just stick to being a hermet...

It might just be stress or something, but I don't really know. All I know is that I walk around with a feeling like something is just holding me done and I just don't feel right and never really did. I started noticing grey hairs, which is odd in my family. I'm also losing a lot of hair, but I don't know if it's related.

 

[satch919]

Go talk to a qualified doctor about it. Sometimes just talking about it can alleviate the problem. At that time, your doctor may request to see you again to make a more informed decision whether or not you need medication or just some therapy or both.

I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder myself. I take medication every evening and it has worked wonders. While my anxiety isn't totally gone, it is much easier to control. The only side effect that I've experienced with this kind of medication is weight gain. However, I was kinda skinny to begin with so gaining some weight has had it's advantages.

PM me if you want some more info. I'd be glad to help you out.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

You're looking to see a SHRINK. If your shrink is a quack fire him asap and report him.

 

[jimbo118]

Go talk to a qualified doctor about it. Sometimes just talking about it can alleviate the problem. At that time, your doctor may request to see you again to make a more informed decision whether or not you need medication or just some therapy or both.

qft, see your GP first of all.