Anxiety or something more serious? Im worried !

I'm a 19 years old male. At age 16 I met this girl who at the time was older than me. I really got used to her and thought that she is the only person on earth that can make me happy. After a year she cheated on me and because of that i got really depressed and i started doing drugs. I did ecstasy few times and smoked marijuana for over a year. Almost a year ago i had this panic attack while on ecstasy thinking i might die and thats where i got my first panic attack. After a month one day i was with friends and we were smoking a joint and i started feeling extremely weird. i started feeling my life is a dream and i started having an extreme heart beat, thinking im dying. I went to emergency room and after a night staying there i came home. I went to an heart specialist and he did all sorts of tests and he said there is nothing wrong with me physically its probably stress. After that day i stopped doing drugs and i never even touched a cigarette. I was sober and going on with my school and everything for 9 months but something weird happened 4 months ago. One day i suffered a neck strain and i went to a doctor and he gave me this medication. I took the medication and went to bed. The day after when i woke up i ate breakfast and right after i ate breakfast i started feeling like my whole body is going numb and my legs started shaking and i felt like there is something serious happening to me. So i started freaking out and i couldn't even move because i felt like im all numbed. I ended up going to the emergency room. They did a blood test and x-ray from my neck and they said there is nothing wrong with me. That night when i got home thats when all the problems started. I started feeling like im in a dream (similar to my bad trips on marijuana) and i had these following symptoms:
Nausuea, Stomach Noises, Headaches, Feeling this noise in my ears, seeing flashes, waking up scared every 20 min, fast heart beat, walking around the house for no reason, thinking im dying or there is something seriously wrong with me.
This went on for almost a month and all this time i didnt come out of this dreamy feeling and i had all the symptoms. I didnt even feel normal for a minute during that month. So i went to my family Doctor and asked for a full blood test, a CT scan from my head and an MRI from my neck. It all came as normal. Thats when my doctor told me im probably suffering from anxiety. After a month i started feeling better untill few weeks ago when i started having the dreamy feeling again. This time its not as bad as the last time like unlike the previous time i can function and go on with my daily life. But i have been feeling weird lately. I lay on my bed and think there is something wrong with me mentally, like i feel like im going crazy but then im not. I always think about stupid stuff. Like i think if my current girlfriend is going to cheat on me. I think if i really love my gf or i dont but when we get into arguments i get so scared that she might leave me. I dont know i just want to feel normal again. I sometimes feel this is not anxiety and im going crazy and i will end up in the mental hospital for rest of my life. At the same time i know these are all from my past experiences and its all in my mind and thats why i dont want to go on medication because i think it will go away with a little help. Im just scared that i have this more serious mental problem.
I also tend to stress about stupid things. Like in class i feel like these girls are always looking at me and im the main point of attention in class. I dont know how to explain it but i feel really weird and when i have a presentation or the teacher asks me a question i get very hot and get this weird feeling in my stomach.

IM REALLY WORRIED NOW..I posted this same thread in another website and this is what i got in answer..I dont can someone tell me if this person is being right? Now i think there is something more serious wrong with me? I dont really get anxiety attacks..i just feel out of it and i feel derealized. Like today i feel like im in a movie but no phyical symptom.Its not like i get an anxiety attack for 10 min or an hour and then i feel okay. I usualy have this deralization feeling for more than 3-4 days and i feel like im going crazy. Am i really going crazy? What are the chances that this is not anxiety and a more serious mental problem? THIS Is what the person on this other forum said to me. This makes me worried.

""""""""""""""""Several of the symptoms you list do point to anxiety; however, several do not. I am speaking from experience now: Usually, an anxiety episode does not last more than an hour or so. If I have chest pain for well over an hour, I am on my way to the hospital (of course, the EKGs and CATs come back fine). The thought you go on for weeks feeling like you are in a haze is not consistant with anxiety disorder. Normally, anxiety is related to the feelings of dread and then physical reactions during a panic attack.

I would definitely suggest contacting a psychiatrist because you have checked your physical self and things came out ok. A psychiatrist will be able to help more with the psychological and identifying what your somatoform symptoms are or may be derived from. Obviously, I can't diagnose you over the internet, but I do hope you take this seriously and seek help to rid yourself of whatever is going on."""""""""""""

Sounds like anxiety, and drugs can defintely causes problems with anxiety...

The heart issues were the either heart palpitations, tightness in the chest, chest pains ? All of the above, all anxiety or panic.


As for the dream like feeling, again that is normal for anyone dealing with anxiety, It's called Derealization, something I also deal with...



No one will die from extreme anxiety, no matter how bad you feel, no matter how much your heart beats etc, nothing will happen besides feeling extremely uncomfortable.

The numbing of the extremeties is also normal, though they don't really go numb because you can feel them... but also something I deal with, and it's anixety symptoms as well. Medication can help, but it doesn't get rid of the anxiety. It's probably safe to say that the Excstasy started it for you... now it's something that has been happening.... Anything can trigger anxiety, it could be as simple as not sleeping well, eating something funny, worry about anything that may be going on in your life.. .etc


Nausea, gas/stomach noises, headaches etc can all be anxiety, and it likely is from what you've said.


I can promise you that you are not dying, you're having panic attacks, and anxiety attacks... panic's more extreme, anxiety is just more feelings in your body then the panic... but it all feels the same.

Anxiety is easily treatable, through therapy will llikely benefit from you, you seem to be anxious all the time now?

Also finding how the trigger's for the anxiety, perhaps also picking up self-help books on anxiety will help... a lot of the books have great coping methods in them..

I've dealt with anxiety & panic since I was 16 and i'm nearly 29 and I still get it. Mines not due to drugs ,though in the past even weed caused anxiety symptoms.

You will not go crazy, anxiety always goes away, and that's something you should try to acknowledge, finding the trigger's important too, once you know the cause you can start working towards feeling better and controlling it. I Can control it now by self talk alone, and I also use CBT which will likely help you as well.

Anxiety is nothing serious, it feels awful, but that's all it will do..



You have likely generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks by the sounds of it....


Talk to someone, psychiatrist can talk to you about options for medication, but I think going to talk therapy and learning CBT etc would benefit you quite a bit.

Don't worry, you'll be ok, i've been there, felt exactly how you did/are feeling and I made it through- so will you.

Butterfly Faerie wrote:Sounds like anxiety, and drugs can defintely causes problems with anxiety...

The heart issues were the either heart palpitations, tightness in the chest, chest pains ? All of the above, all anxiety or panic.


As for the dream like feeling, again that is normal for anyone dealing with anxiety, It's called Derealization, something I also deal with...



No one will die from extreme anxiety, no matter how bad you feel, no matter how much your heart beats etc, nothing will happen besides feeling extremely uncomfortable.

The numbing of the extremeties is also normal, though they don't really go numb because you can feel them... but also something I deal with, and it's anixety symptoms as well. Medication can help, but it doesn't get rid of the anxiety. It's probably safe to say that the Excstasy started it for you... now it's something that has been happening.... Anything can trigger anxiety, it could be as simple as not sleeping well, eating something funny, worry about anything that may be going on in your life.. .etc


Nausea, gas/stomach noises, headaches etc can all be anxiety, and it likely is from what you've said.


I can promise you that you are not dying, you're having panic attacks, and anxiety attacks... panic's more extreme, anxiety is just more feelings in your body then the panic... but it all feels the same.

Anxiety is easily treatable, through therapy will llikely benefit from you, you seem to be anxious all the time now?

Also finding how the trigger's for the anxiety, perhaps also picking up self-help books on anxiety will help... a lot of the books have great coping methods in them..

I've dealt with anxiety & panic since I was 16 and i'm nearly 29 and I still get it. Mines not due to drugs ,though in the past even weed caused anxiety symptoms.

You will not go crazy, anxiety always goes away, and that's something you should try to acknowledge, finding the trigger's important too, once you know the cause you can start working towards feeling better and controlling it. I Can control it now by self talk alone, and I also use CBT which will likely help you as well.

Anxiety is nothing serious, it feels awful, but that's all it will do..



You have likely generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks by the sounds of it....


Talk to someone, psychiatrist can talk to you about options for medication, but I think going to talk therapy and learning CBT etc would benefit you quite a bit.

Don't worry, you'll be ok, i've been there, felt exactly how you did/are feeling and I made it through- so will you.

Thanks for the reply "Butterfly Faerie"
well i always think i have something more serious than anxiety. Like i think i will end up in psychiatric hospital or something one day. Like right now i have no physical symptom at all. And i only got panic attacks like three times in my life. Right now the only thing that is bothering me is the way i feel. Like i feel out of this world. I feel dreamy and im like driving and i feel im in a movie and nothing is real and my head is empty and im just a dead body with two eyes living in a slow motion life. Some days i feel better but some days like today its worse. The thought of me having a more serious mental problem makes me more worried. Like if it is anxiety shouldn’t it be done? like anxiety attack is something that happens for an hour and then it goes away. But this dreamy feeling i have is always with me. I dont want to go on medication i think if it is anxiety i can help myself with it. But the problem is i think its not anxiety and im a physco person feeling like this. Man I wish I never did drugs. I wish I was able to go back to normal and be like a normal person.

Do you know how common it is to have that fear and think of the worse case scenarios, I spent many many hours worry about diseases, cancers and the like thinking that I'm always dying because i felt so bad, but anxiety does that.... anxiety makes you think that. From what you've mentioned here, it sounds that simple to me... it really does.

You can be anxious without having a full blown panic attack...

That dreamy like feeling is part of anxiety, like I said you don 't have to be in full swing to a severe attack and you can just have one symptom, 2 symptoms or a range of them. For example just today I felt anxious when I looked at the clock , it was nothing I couldn't' control and it didn't bother me but it was there because I automatically started to worry about something.

Making you worry constantly is the anxiety my friend, the slow motion, the feeling like your in a movie or something, it's all part of anxiety.... Anxiety for me is never done, it differs from everyone. If there are things in your life that cause you stress and make you anxious then you will continue to feel that way. It took me many many many many MANY years to get to the place I am in now in terms of dealing with my anxiety and that's been over 12 yrs of struggling with it.

I'll have weeks when I don't feel anxious, then it'll happen out of the blue. I can often find the trigger or cause of it, the odd time I can't but I can still deal with it. Others can go weeks, months and even years without a symptom of anxiety, and then for whatever reason it'll come back full force. Everyone deals with anxiety, everyone has felt it, just others feel it worse then others to the point of it being a disorder.

Anxiety always will go away.... it doesn't stay with you for ever, it never will. Mostly just minutes, the odd person has had it hours.. I've never had it that long, and more often then not it takes no time at all to go away, it just seems longer then it actually is.

I can understand that dream like feeling that's always with you, I felt that way, I think it's because you haven't found the route of it yet, what is causing it.

Anxiety can be helped on it's own with out medication.. If I knew as much about anxiety as I did now, I'd never have taken it, though I'm on it for other reasons too.

It is anxiety, and you are not psycho, you are feeling typical anxiety... trust me.... at times I wish I never did drugs either, because it did cause my anxiety too, though though I had it way before that happened.

You will feel normal, it'll happen...

Can you go and see if you can find someone that can help you with this ?

Butterfly Faerie wrote:Do you know how common it is to have that fear and think of the worse case scenarios, I spent many many hours worry about diseases, cancers and the like thinking that I'm always dying because i felt so bad, but anxiety does that.... anxiety makes you think that. From what you've mentioned here, it sounds that simple to me... it really does.

You can be anxious without having a full blown panic attack...

That dreamy like feeling is part of anxiety, like I said you don 't have to be in full swing to a severe attack and you can just have one symptom, 2 symptoms or a range of them. For example just today I felt anxious when I looked at the clock , it was nothing I couldn't' control and it didn't bother me but it was there because I automatically started to worry about something.

Making you worry constantly is the anxiety my friend, the slow motion, the feeling like your in a movie or something, it's all part of anxiety.... Anxiety for me is never done, it differs from everyone. If there are things in your life that cause you stress and make you anxious then you will continue to feel that way. It took me many many many many MANY years to get to the place I am in now in terms of dealing with my anxiety and that's been over 12 yrs of struggling with it.

I'll have weeks when I don't feel anxious, then it'll happen out of the blue. I can often find the trigger or cause of it, the odd time I can't but I can still deal with it. Others can go weeks, months and even years without a symptom of anxiety, and then for whatever reason it'll come back full force. Everyone deals with anxiety, everyone has felt it, just others feel it worse then others to the point of it being a disorder.

Anxiety always will go away.... it doesn't stay with you for ever, it never will. Mostly just minutes, the odd person has had it hours.. I've never had it that long, and more often then not it takes no time at all to go away, it just seems longer then it actually is.

I can understand that dream like feeling that's always with you, I felt that way, I think it's because you haven't found the route of it yet, what is causing it.

Anxiety can be helped on it's own with out medication.. If I knew as much about anxiety as I did now, I'd never have taken it, though I'm on it for other reasons too.

It is anxiety, and you are not psycho, you are feeling typical anxiety... trust me.... at times I wish I never did drugs either, because it did cause my anxiety too, though though I had it way before that happened.

You will feel normal, it'll happen...

Can you go and see if you can find someone that can help you with this ?

This post really made me feel better. Im tired of people telling me to go see a physiologist. I dont really know what is causing this dreamy feeling right now. Like the first time i got an panic attack i knew it was because of drugs. But right now i have no idea why some days i feel like this and some days i feel better. Like there are days that i get into an argument with my girlfriend and i feel completely normal but like there are days that my girlfriend comes over and we are watching a movie and having fun and i feel terrible. Well i have a caring parents and girlfriend and they are always there for me and they are helping me but i havent seen someone like a doctor. I just think its my own life and i have to find my way of dealing with this not someone telling me what to do and what medications to take to make myself okay ! like you see little things like the your post make me feel better and less worried about me having a serious mental disease. Well i guess im going to give this some time. Im going to university next year and i will have a more stressful life I hope by then i will find a way to go on with my anxiety without getting paranoid or scared about me having some serious disease. Its just i wish i could get rid of this dreamy feeling like being dead and just having two eyes. Is there a way to cure this feeling, the derealization without medication? Like i tried breathing exercise today and it didnt help at all. Im going swimming from tomorrow. Im gonna try to exercise, last time i exercised was like a year ago. This anxiety thing has made a worried robot walking around. And i will start to drink more water and take vitamins. Hopefully i will feel okay again and forget about what i have done in the past and how i have been hurt by some people. Thank U again for the post. Take Care

You don't need to see a psychologist, there are other doctors that can help you with it... though any doctor that can help you cope with this right now would be helpful, I'm glad though that you are feeling somewhat better from posting...

Since you don't know the cause what about getting a pen and paper and writing things like:

-Automatic thoughts (what I'm thinking right now)
-How you are feeling (psychically)
- What was I doing when I felt the symptoms come on
-What am I worried about?
-What's the worse thing that can happen to me right now?
etc


Usually if you are able to answer those questions you can find the reason.

The argument with your girlfriend seems like the trigger, you just answered your own question at to the why. Perhaps the girlfriend right now is the trigger because of the arguments, of the cheating in the past etc... The movie could have triggered it, whether it was a scene, maybe someone said something that triggered you to feel that way, it can be anything, a smell even.

With me and anxiety- I at the beginning when I was 15 maybe it was 14, anyways I just got extreme fear, I cried all the time, I had insomnia that I created to make myself sick so I didn't have to go to school (I didn't want to go and I didn't know why), I would get constant migraines and headaches where I went for a CT scan to make sure there were no tumors causing it.

Once I found out the reason it scared the living day lights out of me. I was always anxious with anything and everything. I hated going to see my pdoc because I knew I'd be anxious, I knew that I'd have to talk about why I was anxious... but the more I did it, the more it got better. She taught me ways to cope with it, what to do in terms of exercises to help me get rid of it... and now after all those years of therapy I can deal with it on my own, I couldn't have done it otherwise... but maybe you can, but don't rule it out.... It's not about medication, it's about coping, and learning the different methods used for anxiety....

The only way to rid yourself of anxiety is to find out what it is and to face it. I know you don't know the reason, but once you do you'll find that the derealization will go away. I take meds for anxiety, but mainly for depression & ptsd, and it's only one drug. I've been on meds since I've been 16 (not the same one) and they do help. They help with symptoms... but that's it in terms of anxiety.

Worrying about things is also why I mentioned therapy, a therapist can help you with those worrying thoughts, even a self help book on anxiety will do that, I can tell you the books that have helped me if you want.

There's a lot you can do.

positive self talk
abdominal breathing
Cognitive behavioral therapy
meditation
visualization



The most important thing to remember is to ask yourself straight out... What's the worse thing that can happen? The worse thing that can happen is that you feel uncomfortable, you feel not yourself, you may feel nauseated, or tingling etc, but it doesn't last... it's important to keep busy too, keep your mind off the way that you are feeling... sometimes that's easier said then done.

Also once you find out what it is that causes you the anxiety expose yourself to it, this is called exposure therapy. The more you confront situations that make you anxiety or uncomfortable the better it will be. There is a lot you can do.

Swimming will help, that's exercise, and that seems to help when you feel anxious, it keeps you busy too, so i'm sure you'll feel better.....


You said you need to forget about the past, and the hurt, that alone can cause worry and stress and be the route of the anxiousness as well.

You'll get through it...If you'd like resources on anxiety, with coping methods, books etc let me know...

Take care.

Butterfly Faerie wrote:You don't need to see a psychologist, there are other doctors that can help you with it... though any doctor that can help you cope with this right now would be helpful, I'm glad though that you are feeling somewhat better from posting...

Since you don't know the cause what about getting a pen and paper and writing things like:

-Automatic thoughts (what I'm thinking right now)
-How you are feeling (psychically)
- What was I doing when I felt the symptoms come on
-What am I worried about?
-What's the worse thing that can happen to me right now?
etc


Usually if you are able to answer those questions you can find the reason.

The argument with your girlfriend seems like the trigger, you just answered your own question at to the why. Perhaps the girlfriend right now is the trigger because of the arguments, of the cheating in the past etc... The movie could have triggered it, whether it was a scene, maybe someone said something that triggered you to feel that way, it can be anything, a smell even.

With me and anxiety- I at the beginning when I was 15 maybe it was 14, anyways I just got extreme fear, I cried all the time, I had insomnia that I created to make myself sick so I didn't have to go to school (I didn't want to go and I didn't know why), I would get constant migraines and headaches where I went for a CT scan to make sure there were no tumors causing it.

Once I found out the reason it scared the living day lights out of me. I was always anxious with anything and everything. I hated going to see my pdoc because I knew I'd be anxious, I knew that I'd have to talk about why I was anxious... but the more I did it, the more it got better. She taught me ways to cope with it, what to do in terms of exercises to help me get rid of it... and now after all those years of therapy I can deal with it on my own, I couldn't have done it otherwise... but maybe you can, but don't rule it out.... It's not about medication, it's about coping, and learning the different methods used for anxiety....

The only way to rid yourself of anxiety is to find out what it is and to face it. I know you don't know the reason, but once you do you'll find that the derealization will go away. I take meds for anxiety, but mainly for depression & ptsd, and it's only one drug. I've been on meds since I've been 16 (not the same one) and they do help. They help with symptoms... but that's it in terms of anxiety.

Worrying about things is also why I mentioned therapy, a therapist can help you with those worrying thoughts, even a self help book on anxiety will do that, I can tell you the books that have helped me if you want.

There's a lot you can do.

positive self talk
abdominal breathing
Cognitive behavioral therapy
meditation
visualization



The most important thing to remember is to ask yourself straight out... What's the worse thing that can happen? The worse thing that can happen is that you feel uncomfortable, you feel not yourself, you may feel nauseated, or tingling etc, but it doesn't last... it's important to keep busy too, keep your mind off the way that you are feeling... sometimes that's easier said then done.

Also once you find out what it is that causes you the anxiety expose yourself to it, this is called exposure therapy. The more you confront situations that make you anxiety or uncomfortable the better it will be. There is a lot you can do.

Swimming will help, that's exercise, and that seems to help when you feel anxious, it keeps you busy too, so i'm sure you'll feel better.....


You said you need to forget about the past, and the hurt, that alone can cause worry and stress and be the route of the anxiousness as well.

You'll get through it...If you'd like resources on anxiety, with coping methods, books etc let me know...

Take care.

I'm not with the same girl that cheated on me. My current girlfriend she is a really caring girl and i tend to worry a lot about she cheating on me because of my first girlfriend. But she is not really the type of girl that would do that but because of my first experience with my first girlfriend i tend to worry about this sometimes. But like today i wasn’t thinking about that and i still have my anxiety. I think what caused my anxiety in the first place was doing drugs and the way i felt after my first girlfriend left me. I dont know if thinking of being left alone is the thing that is causing my anxiety or not but its not like i think about being cheated on all the time. And sometimes i freak out, i think what do i really love her? is she the one? am i going to cheat on her? do i love her because i can have sex with her? or is she going to cheat on me and...but i know i love her and i know she loves me too but its all these questions that sometimes come to my head..
about resources on anxiety sure i have a lot of free time in my hand. If there is any good books on it i would definitely look into it.

IbizaParadise wrote:I'm not with the same girl that cheated on me. My current girlfriend she is a really caring girl and i tend to worry a lot about she cheating on me because of my first girlfriend. But she is not really the type of girl that would do that but because of my first experience with my first girlfriend i tend to worry about this sometimes. But like today i wasn’t thinking about that and i still have my anxiety. I think what caused my anxiety in the first place was doing drugs and the way i felt after my first girlfriend left me. I dont know if thinking of being left alone is the thing that is causing my anxiety or not but its not like i think about being cheated on all the time. And sometimes i freak out, i think what do i really love her? is she the one? am i going to cheat on her? do i love her because i can have sex with her? or is she going to cheat on me and...but i know i love her and i know she loves me too but its all these questions that sometimes come to my head..
about resources on anxiety sure i have a lot of free time in my hand. If there is any good books on it i would definitely look into it.

Ok, you are not with the same girl, but the worry is still there...The worry will bring up anxiety at times when you think it wont happen. Anxiety likes to sneak up and come out of the blue when you don't think it'll creep up.

Try writing stuff down when you feel anxiety coming on. Like I mentioned, write what you were doing, feeling, etc I bet you will find out the cause...I'm sure the drugs did start the anxiety for you, but other things have caused it too now....

Your worry about the girlfriend, stressing out whether you love her or whether that worry is in the back of your mind about the cheating knowing the chances of doing that is slim etc is going to cause stress and concern and worry and will start symptoms starting up.


The books that have helped me, and one in particular is: Don't Panic by R.Reid Wilson, ph.d
The other is The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund J Bourne ... i didn't need to do the workbook really, but there was helpful things in there, I'd say definitely get the Don't Panic book, I read it in a day and it changed my whole mind around in terms of anxiety... it was a great help.


Websites:

http://behavioural-psychology.suite101. ... nd_anxiety

http://www.anxietypanic.com/understanding.html

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthin ... s/cbt.aspx <-- about cbt I do use this alot

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Prac ... Panic.html


There are plenty more resources out there, those are just a few.

Butterfly Faerie wrote:

IbizaParadise wrote:I'm not with the same girl that cheated on me. My current girlfriend she is a really caring girl and i tend to worry a lot about she cheating on me because of my first girlfriend. But she is not really the type of girl that would do that but because of my first experience with my first girlfriend i tend to worry about this sometimes. But like today i wasn’t thinking about that and i still have my anxiety. I think what caused my anxiety in the first place was doing drugs and the way i felt after my first girlfriend left me. I dont know if thinking of being left alone is the thing that is causing my anxiety or not but its not like i think about being cheated on all the time. And sometimes i freak out, i think what do i really love her? is she the one? am i going to cheat on her? do i love her because i can have sex with her? or is she going to cheat on me and...but i know i love her and i know she loves me too but its all these questions that sometimes come to my head..
about resources on anxiety sure i have a lot of free time in my hand. If there is any good books on it i would definitely look into it.

Ok, you are not with the same girl, but the worry is still there...The worry will bring up anxiety at times when you think it wont happen. Anxiety likes to sneak up and come out of the blue when you don't think it'll creep up.

Try writing stuff down when you feel anxiety coming on. Like I mentioned, write what you were doing, feeling, etc I bet you will find out the cause...I'm sure the drugs did start the anxiety for you, but other things have caused it too now....

Your worry about the girlfriend, stressing out whether you love her or whether that worry is in the back of your mind about the cheating knowing the chances of doing that is slim etc is going to cause stress and concern and worry and will start symptoms starting up.


The books that have helped me, and one in particular is: Don't Panic by R.Reid Wilson, ph.d
The other is The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund J Bourne ... i didn't need to do the workbook really, but there was helpful things in there, I'd say definitely get the Don't Panic book, I read it in a day and it changed my whole mind around in terms of anxiety... it was a great help.


Websites:

http://behavioural-psychology.suite101. ... nd_anxiety

http://www.anxietypanic.com/understanding.html

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthin ... s/cbt.aspx <-- about cbt I do use this alot

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Prac ... Panic.html


There are plenty more resources out there, those are just a few.

Thanks..i will definitely look on to this...

Im on my 3rd day of direalization and i havent even felt normal for a minute in the past 3 days and its really bothering me. I was reading the comment box on this youtube video and some people have this dreamy feeling for years now without having a normal day. Many of them are taking medication too. Could this stay with me forever? i mean now im freaking out that i might feel like this for years now without getting better.

First off your not alone, 2nd to make this clear you are not and will not turn mental. even though it may feel like you are. It's only in your head. I am going through the exact same feeling's you are I'm 20 years old, what best describes it is Depersonalisation it is a more serious side effect of anxiety, but please note that anxiety will not cause you any harm, no one has ever died because of what your feeling or have gone mentally ill. You may find yourself feeling Tired, Weird, Unreal, Scared, and you may notice that you talk to your self a lot on trying to figure out what is wrong with you Or Using Google Alot, witch will make you go into more of a panic state. as for the numb sensations and hot flashes i get those too, especially when someone is talking to me, it is being over worried witch will send shock like feeling through your body. this is a serious condition ONLY on the fact that it seems to run your life, IT is very curable, You should look into or ask your family doctor about Cipralex 10mg, It helps with:
--The symptomatic relief of depressive Disorder (MDD)
--Symptomatic relief of anxiety causing clinically significant distress in people with anxiety disorder (GAD)
--And it also helps with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Dont Worrie This Faze Will Pass, You Are Not Going Crazy Nor Will You!!

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Just Remember This Is Not A Forever Feeling!!! It Will Pass, I'm Going Though The Same Thing