News of Anxiety Disorders

Hi all,

I'm a 37 year old law enforcement officer and have been suffering from various anxiety related problems since I was about 20-21. I have done some therapy in the past and a lot of self help stuff and it's been a constant struggle, which is why I'm here now.

Oddly enough you'de think that I wouldn't be able to do the job I do with this condition. Quite the contrary. I'm able to ...

Hi all i'm new to the forum. I suffer with this disorder and i sympathise with those who have to endure this suffering. I am taking baby steps now to combat this. Don't leave it to late. I have had this 5 years and not addressed it, only now is this problem majorly effecting my life to the degree i can't get to work or go outside alone, and feel panic everytime i predict it. ...

Where would i go to get medication for social anxiety/phobia? If i just go to my doctor and tell him hell prescribe it? I ending up quitting school 2 years ago because i couldnt deal with the panic attacks i would get during a class. Well after 2 years i finally decided to go back. I really dont want the same thing to happen because if it does i dont know what i will do.

1- when i am in secondary scool i remember that i have palpitation in acertain positions like fear or time of exam and like that but i remember also i spend many hours in reading scool books or storeis books with out feeling of palpitation
2-in afirst class of college i see that when i try to sleep at noon or night ,i cant sleep comfortibly because palpitation,so i suffer till i can sleep,but i ...

Hey all, the past year or so, ive felt very nervous about social encounters, especially with a paticular group at school. Ive been friendly with them since i started high school and have had no trouble talking or spending time with them the first two years. However the past year (11th grade) things started to change

i know this may sound weird, but whenever i spend time with my friends from school, i feel very ...

Hi, I thought I'd post in here, this is probably the wrong topic though. I'm 23 and have had OCD and OC spectrum issues for about 10 years. I've also had extreme social anxiety my entire life. I can't make eye contact with strangers otherwise my eyes get really wide and tense and it's embarassing. I've only had a few girlfriends and the last one was about 8 years ago. I'm a virgin too and ...

I am currently trying to cope with what I believe is an anxiety problem, yet I am not sure what steps to take. I chose to do a project in college on anxiety, and while doing the research I was amazed at how closely some of it fit to my psychological difficulties.

I believe that my anxiety developed slowly, I had a mother who taught me that mistakes were unacceptable, I would be severly punished ...

I don't know if this is my o.c.d (which I was diagnosed with 11 yrs ago) but I find myself obsessed with sexual thoughts and acting immature. And sometimes I do, god help to a certain extent. Sometimes I wish I could commit suicide and be reincarnated as a baby.
I know this sounds nuts. Sometimes I feel so helpless, and sometimes I wish I was dead. I'm allways tense, worried, paranoid of people and ...

So i have been having ocd problems for a while. i rewrite over certen words or letters when typing or writing, (hey im doing that now..) i touch random objects a certen number of times, i reread specific sentences over and over (like at the tops of paragraphs, or last one of a chapter), and i flip light switches on and off a certen amount of times, among many many other things. i guess that ...

It all started when I broke up with the girl I thought I would marry. My mother has OCD, and many psychiatrists have told me the event triggered it. There is NO AMOUNT of help that can treat OCD. I've tried cognitive-behavioral therapy, normal therapy, psychiatrists, and many other self-help groups. The only treatment I've found to be a little effective was medication. I've been on Zoloft, Prozac, Anafranil, and now currently Paxil. Zoloft didn't ...