Anxiety Support Group

Sorry to hear your feeling like this. Sounds like depression too? Are you seeing a therapist or ahve any close friends for support? I feel like you sometimes, i'm a terrible worrier. If there isn't anything to worry about, then I will find something to worry about!

Try and stay in the moment, enjoy what you do have, because the past is gone and the future hasn't happened yet. All we really have is the here and now.

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to my physician in the morning, I'm curious if I should bring this up to her? It's 4:30 am and my stomach is hurting so bad, I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to go to bed tonight, there is no way I could lay down and sleep. My mind wont stop racing long enough. I'm afraid that I'm going to feel like this forever.

i have your same problem with the sleeping. if i try to even dare touch my pillow at nite, my thoughts just race and race and i just become paranoid about everything. and my stomach turns and yess it burns too. i get tinglys all over my body. the same tingly you get from a sunburn. i get it alot.

that definitely sounds like anxiety to me. no doubt. i would talk to your doctor, but also try to find a good psychiatrist to get you on meds that can help for the anxiety. it would help alot.

This is totally anxiety. You have to get some self help books and programs. I recommend the book The Worry Trap by E. Lejeune, and the program by the Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety (well worth the money). It all has to do with our reactions to our environment, not the environment but how we perceive things. We have to turn our negative thoughts into positive and comforting thoughts. You wouldn't believe how this has worked for me. Good Luck.

I feel like that too, with the racing thoughts, almost like OCD because I can't go to bed until I do whatever I'm thinking about, it sounds silly but I got an idea to write a list of things to do before I die (Like a "bucket list") and to write it in alphabetical order and I couldn't sleep until I was done. Kind of annoying to not be able to function normally and I sometimes have to take ativan and an ambien to get to sleep.

have you tried keeping a notepad and pen at the bedside? it has helped me a little to not have to use the meds as much because if i write it all down, i figure that way i can "remember" what i want to do when i'm not so tired or need to be sleeping and usually when i wake up whatever was on the list really wasn't so important after all and if it WAS important then i didnt forget and i can make time in my day to accomplish the task.

add me to the anxiety train girls.... tingling, sweating(very attractive) uncomfortable feeling in my chest... dry heaves.... yup .. anxiety... however i also think you have deppression... yes, do talk to your doctor about this stuff....

Sorry to hear that you're not doing so well. Hopefully you're doctor will have something good to say to help. I know when I was in college a couple years ago, the doctor's never really seemed to want to diagnose you. They just said it was all stress related. Anyways, is there anything specific going on in your life that is adding a lot of stress (graduation, career choice, transitions, etc.)? I think that sometimes people forget that students do more than just party and have real worries. I hope you feel better and that you can work with your doctor to figure out what to do next. I know my college had a counseling program that was free and on campus and was pretty useful to me. I would take a look and see if this is available to you because it would probably be helpful to you as you are trying to get better.

I am in the same boat for the last 4 yrs and just the last few months it has completley taken me over..i always get stomach aches and the bad thing is i have emetophobia which doesnt help...I sleep TOO much...i want to do things, but cant find the energy, i always have a feeling of like someone is going to kill me, I know EXACTLY what you mean with being a prisioner...i feel trapped in my mind and hardly notice my surroundings..i am in therpy now and going to be seeing a psych...I also have taken klonopins for the last 3 years on and off and it is the only thing that gets that scared anxious feeling out of my stomach and keeps me from panic attacks...

I feel the same way. You might also want to have them check you for an ulcer, I had one due to stress and anxiety. I hope things look up for you soon. You need to enjoy that vacation.

Sure sounds like anxiety to me. I've also been suffering with varying degrees of anxiety and depression -- for just about five years. When the physical symptoms were at their worst for me I also had trouble sleeping and the suffocating feeling.

I hope you feel better on your vacation! Make sure you relax. :-)