Anxiety

I get it regarding my financial position pretty often. I constantly worry about never being able to buy a house, car or when I eventually have kids, not being able to provide for them. I constantly class myself as "being broke" yet I'm financially stable and totally independent yet my mind sometimes doesn't allow me to think that. If I buy myself new clothes or have a night out, I'm wracked by guilt the following day or even in the hours after the event. 

Green Devil wrote: Just seeing the amount of people that suffer or have suffered with depression on the forum, just curious to see if many or anyone else suffer from anxiety? After getting a terrible dose of it again over the weekend, mind plays tricks on me and it's horrible.

 

Got this after the away trip to Scotland. Had got a bad case of the fear after the previous few away match/ stag heavy sessions, this isn't helped by intolerance to wheat which means I should never drink and results in bad night sweats an skin rashes. That "fear" resulted in nights of no sleep so before Scotland, my anxiety really built about it happening again.

I came home and straight away worried myself into a frenzy this culminated in my first panic attack. A very scary experience and ended up with me heading to a GP where a low dose benzo got me some sleep and I came straight out of it. I am lucky enough to have never felt depressed at any times and genuinely am very happy with my life. So in that I can definitely see a clear distinction between depression and anxiety.

It is clear that my anxiety is centred around Alcohol so for me it's easy to avoid. I have only experienced with once more since Scotland it wasn't half as bad but again was after a night out. I have talked to numerous people about it since and it's amazing how many people have experienced it it live with it constantly. I found talking about it helped a lot. A lot of people I have talked to also recommended Cognitive behavioural therapy which is becoming more and more the most preferential treatment given by professionals. My advice to anyone from my small experience would be to talk about it and try your best to seek the triggers that cause it

Lads, could write a book about this and did actually write my thesis on it - Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder - and the one over-arching piece of advice I'd leave you is to arm yourself with knowledge if you find yourself experiencing panic attacks. Once you know the ins and outs, basic tenets and mechanisms of a panic attack, they lose a massive amount of their charge and then stop self-propagating themselves. Also bear in mind that NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND has ever died from a panic attack. I remember them well and they sure as fck made you feel like you were dying. As mentioned above, mindfulness and counselling are great places to start too and another thing, it never hurts to keep a small paper bag on your person  Breathing exercises are well worth looking in to also.

heighway2heaven wrote: Lads, could write a book about this and did actually write my thesis on it - Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder - and the one over-arching piece of advice I'd leave you is to arm yourself with knowledge if you find yourself experiencing panic attacks. Once you know the ins and outs, basic tenets and mechanisms of a panic attack, they lose a massive amount of their charge and then stop self-propagating themselves. Also bear in mind that NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND has ever died from a panic attack. I remember them well and they sure as fck made you feel like you were dying. As mentioned above, mindfulness and counselling are great places to start too and another thing, it never hurts to keep a small paper bag on your person  Breathing exercises are well worth looking in to also. If you go to a doctor about this, there's a fair chance they'll lash you on meds. It's their M.O. <span style="line-height: 1.4;">Dr's just love to chuck pills at these things, in my experience. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">My thoughts on this?? Using SSRI's or sedatives to treat panic disorder (if not having a co-morbidity with depression) is akin to using a sledgehammer to press in a thumb tack. As I said above, read up on them and then read up on them some more.</span> It's years now since I went through this and take it from me, the solution to your anxiety/panic is there somewhere, it's just that it varies from person to person as to what'll work best.

Nasty fukers are panic attacks and while it's years since I had one, good ould anxiety still rears its ugly head from time to time.
Agree with Heighway, knowledge is absolute key. Self help books work. They may not work for everyone, but you will find something that will
Read, read, read

Went to counselling before, reckon I'll be back at it next week!

Having a very bad week tbh! Mind is racing no end over f**king nothing Sickening how bad its gotten...

Blue Man wrote: Since I've been in Canada, I'm also getting pretty bad attacks about "running out of time" regarding my path in life. Basically, I've just turned 29 and want to get into full time coaching but fear that I've left it too late to start my badges and that I'll never do what I want to do. Of course I know this is nonsense but I do get sleepless nights thinking about how I'm gonna get to where I wanna go. If I do have to return home (my residency application is in the air at the minute) I fear how people will look at me for coming home. Keep having a sense of failure if I do have to go back at the age of 30 with no trade or degree.

Ask anyone in their 40's and they'll tell you that you've plenty of time ahead of you. You're never too old to chase your dream, unless you have kids, a house etc. I reckon I went through my mid life crisis in my early 20's because I wasn't happy with the direction I was heading 'career wise'. It was more just the anxiety of feeling like I should be doing more with my life than I was.

Was only after I realised what I wanted to do and how I'd achieve it that these feelings went. It wasn't full blown anxiety more of a self esteem issue which created an anxious feeling. You'll find your own way and will look back in a few years and think what were you worried about

Roger has come a long way since he was a low life thief

Trap junior wrote: You have ocd GD.

Doctors just said its mild anxiety, no OCD! Just this certain thing has bothered hence finding it hard to let it go, usually I can get over things very quickly by talking. Not to bad now thankfully, finally getting some closure on it after talking to my mam and girlfriend!