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Q: Someone Tell Me I'm Not the Only One...
asked by: jannibaby on December 11th, 2006
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Hi all.

I am a 23 year old women. I have been just told this year by many different doc. That I have anxiety. I feel in a way that there right. I worry about everything , all day long and can't stop!!!!!!! I shake in my hands and even in my legs from time to time and my palms get sweaty and such. I have headaches all the time and just this year i've had cronic sinus infections. I have aches and pains I can't explain and sometime my head even feel numb or just floating there. I read on the internet atleast 4 to 5 hours a day on research because i'm positive I have everything I see or hear about on the tv or in life. This as taken over my life and I was given paxel to take the worries away and I even have anxiety about taking that !!!!!!!!! Oh man when does this stop ? I take my tempature atleast 15 times and day and I even take my bp as much. I have one at my house........ I have constant worries that somethign bad is always gonna happen and my body is taken a toll and I always feel not right!!! None to less i'm always dizzy and it makes me have more anxiety .... I'm young and i've had heart scans to cat scans to checking for cancer to anything you can think of ..... I have atleast 50,000 in hospital bills just from this year alone. I am always thinking I have to go to the emergency room for something. Am I alone here ?????????? How does it just start ..... I've never been so "weird" until this year...... Any advice for me ??????????? Thanks for listening...
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Chrono114
replied on December 11th, 2006
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Hi jannibaby, I was just checking this forum to see if anyone responded to my fitness thread and figured I would take a peek inside the anxiety forums which I used to be very familiar with. To answer you right off the bat, you're definitely not alone. I'm 21 years old and I dealt with what you have now from when I was about 16-19. I felt like I was living in a dream all day long and nothing would ever make me feel right again. I worried non-stopped about illness and disease. At 18 I was worried that I had aids and I was still a virgin and never did any type of intravenious drug or anything. The best thing I can tell you is that it will stop. . Trust me. People always told me "i know how you feel." and I just thought to myself "you have no idea how I feel, you may have had something like this but this is soo much worse." but I have to tell you, I really really do know how you feel. It's a scary thing when your own brain is your biggest fear. Shortly after I started seeing a psychologist twice a week I began to see small progress over the course of about 6 months. Now i'm more or less back to normal with the occassional bad day, but it's nothing like it was before. And I refused to take drugs for it so don't think you need them because you don't. They may relax you but don't rely on them. If you have any questions or anything you can pm me anytime.
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Bek
replied on December 12th, 2006
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Jannibaby.

I have all your symptoms and more. It will get better, but it may get worse too. Have faith and the first step to recovery is recognising that you have anxiety. You have had all the tests and you are a fit and health. I have bad days and I have great days (which I thank god for) and I try each and every day to find ways of dealing with my symptoms. I am alot better now then I was a year ago and I think time helps. I am always looking into therapies, herbal remedies and books and things to help me.

Take care and be sure to keep intouch. This board has helped my heaps

chrono114 - how did you get yourself better to the point where you are leading a normal life?
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