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Q: Feeling Weird/different, Anxiety Or Something Else?
asked by: PuffyLu on January 31st, 2006
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I've been feeling weird, out of it, both mentally and physically for quite some time now.



I've had lots of drug abuse in the past, and caffeine/diet pills, eating problems, mental issues, i've had it all. But that throughout a very long time, like 10 years ago was the drugs...And it was dispersed throughout, with many normal phases too. My question is, ever since the panic attacks came back and hospitalized me a few months ago, I havent felt the same since, and im convinced something's wrong with me. Though from chest xrays, blood work, egk, three trips to the er, and two different doctors, they say i'm fine, everything looks fine, but I don't feel fine.



Even on my anxiety meds, zoloft and ativan....They calm me down, but I still feel weird.



So then is it safe to say, that its not anxiety?



I feel like i'm somehow messed up. Best way to describe it is, body feels tired alot, fatigued, sometimes chest pains, towards the left side, and just strange mental state like I always feel out of it, and loopy, and kind of like "whats going on?" just very "slow" and not with it. And my body feels out of it too.



I used to drink lots and lots of coffee in the past, and work out, now I dont do either.



Who knows.



I think somethings wrong, but im sure its not anxiety/stress related. Can anyone please offer any advice what should I do at this point, at the risk of being a hypochondriac, because I don't feel like myself, it's interfering with my life, and just because the doctors say i'm "okay," i'm not satisfied with that answer but not sure where to turn.


I feel like an undiagnosed malfunction. Is it possible that they missed anything serious, or maybe I have some damage done fro mall the history of drugs/caffeeine, and panic attacks, and what not
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skawt
replied on January 31st, 2006
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I used to be very anxiec in your state, I was prescribed pills and they took the edge off but I still felt different, I got it from drugs as well, but the point is, I seriously just got over it myself, I though the same thing, oh these pills work but im not my normal self, it truly just slipped my mind and I havent felt anxiety for at least a year now..
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PuffyLu
replied on January 31st, 2006
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I guess. I mean you're right, it could all just be anxiety/stress, but i've done sooooo much to harm myself with drugs, caffeine, reckless partying, sex, etc,... I just hope I didn't do some damage. They say my heart's fine, etc, but why the hell do I get all these weird symptoms , it doesn't make sense.

I can't just keep going on feeling like a cripple either.

It sucks.
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skawt
replied on January 31st, 2006
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Yeah it does, but im tellin you just find something that you like to do constructive, focus on progression it will take your mind off all that caca, thats what I did. I played my guitar, anythin it just helps take ur mind off all of the things that are freakin you out.
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pinksalter
replied on February 1st, 2006
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Hi

i couldn`t agree more distracting your mind is the key to getting through all these weird feelings. From what your describing it sounds like depersonalisation, it can happen during a heightened period of anxiety. It`s your minds way of protecting itself, it kind of switches off and you feel all spacey and detached from yourself. I`ve had it for a good while now but it has got so much better because I don`t focus on it. It can`t harm you and you shouldn`t worry about it as it can`t hurt you and doesn`t mean your going mad or crazy.

I`ve been through drugs and things like that and at first I thought I had caused this but its not the drugs its just the anxiety.

Debs
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pamela72558
replied on January 19th, 2009
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anxiec
is anxiec a word?
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