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Q: Anxiety and paranoia
asked by: kid1234 on June 2nd, 2009
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I'm 19 years old. And I've suffered with eating difficulties and a lot of change (a little too much change if you ask me). I'm leaving home, for university...obviously a very stressful time. But in the past..3 years - I have become irrationally fearful. I don't believe that I've had panic attacks per se. But I have definitely been terrified, adrenaline would course through my viens - I would cry uncontrollably. But the weird thing would be my head - when I properly cracked everything would shake and feel smaller - my vision wouldn't feel right. This has calmed down, with acupuncture and enough emotional support to cure all. However, these days I feel incredibly strange. I need to talk about my feelings everyday...demanding so much from my family, because if I don't - then I, I'm not sure. Its incredibly difficult to describe. My head doesn't feel safe. When I try to get on with life, I find myself spacing out, obsessing about either my thoughts, how they're not right, how I find something frightening when it shouldn't be. I'll repeat my thoughts in my head, and then I push myself to just think normally. I get tensions in my head, sometimes things will just feel smaller, although they aren't. And recently I've been fixated on my vision - like I can see the colour pigments that make up what I see...which otherwise is completely normal - I mean if you focus too closely on something...but for some reason it bothers me greatly. I want to see clearly. Yet nothing feels right.
My father's a psychotherapist - so feelings and emotions have always been out in the open - within the household. But now I feel like I'm obsessed, with feelings and thoughts and analysis. And when I try to break out of all of these complications - something sucks me back in. It might just be my way of figuring stuff out...but I do worry that I'm crazy, schitzophernic for exmaple. I'm always fixated on something. In the beginning of last month, I felt like I was going to get sucked out of reality at any minute....my family, the world seemed so...just like a bunch of cells and evolution. The thought of all the possibilities of the universe frightened me, and for some reason I just couldn't ground myself.
I don't panic, as much these days. I just push myself through the days, and hold onto to faith and what my therapist and father have told me. They are both convinced that I will be okay, that I'm not crazy. But it's like I'm determined to be? if that makes sense.
I guess I just don't trust anything... not my mind, not other people - though they do help me calm down, not my feelings.
I read some of the other posts, maybe it's this de-personalization, derealization thing? Because I do know, that this is only my reality. It's not other people's. And I know logically, that all of this shouldn't be possible.
I'm scared, that no one knows what's going on with me, not even myself...and that I might I dunno, go insane, or die from the physical consequences of my mind frame. That I'll be forced to kill myself - though that's irrational. At least I know it on some level.

Any advice?
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WANTTOBEBETTER
replied on June 2nd, 2009
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Hi Kid,
You sound just like me, over analyzing everything.
I think Ive had every thought and feeling you are having. It certainly is rough to deal with.
I strongly believe you have DP/DR realted to your anxiety.
The only comfort I have found is medicine like prozac or Zoloft to help you through.

Also don't fight it or spend too much time trying to figure the world or your symptoms out. The more you fight the worse it gets. Sit back and let it come.

Find your stressors and eliminate them or find ways to cope. When you get to school hopefully you will meet friends and this will preoccupy you and this will slowly go away.
I hope you get better!

Greg
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breck08
replied on June 2nd, 2009
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What medication are you presently taking? From your post I would say you definitely have a lot going through that young adult mind of yours.
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