Recent Chronic Anxiety Sufferer

[nuckin]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to introduce what has driven me to this forum and I apologize if this is long winded.

A week ago I decided to take on the extra responsibility of a pup, but because I live by myself and work a solid 8 hour work day I got in way over my head. 4 weeks ago I started a new job, which gave me more free time. I think the combination of these 2 events plus the fact that most of my friends and family are 5 or so hours away caused my first panic attack.

I've always had what I refer to as descript anxiety, the kind you get for a known issue, either something i want to do or have to do. I find this to be easy to overcome. For the past week I've been having episodes of nondescript anxiety, where I really don't know exactly why I'm anxious, and therefor I get depressed and have trouble functioning.

Over the past few days I have gone from a constant feeling of general anxiety to episodes that come and go. But I'm still concerned because I still can't eat very much and when I go I get stomach pains. I'm also having the anxiety waking me up in the middle of the night, then I have to calm myself down in order to fall back asleep.

Am I going to need medication to get through this? I've spoken to a counselor and she just said I'm too hard on myself, but I don't feel like that has helped my situation.

[streakybacon]

Things like exercise, healthy diet and medication can help in the short term, but for a long term u may have to keep seeing yer counsiller. Although in saying that I still havnt fixed my anxiety long term so im just repeating what people have told me. But the short term things do help ease it a bit. Hope yer ok

[nuckin]

I'd say I'm OK, a lot of what im going through is I think anxiety caused by anxiety. I'm contemplating just going straight for like a psychiatrist and see what they think. My counselor likes to talk a lot when I need to be talking

[streakybacon]

I understand what u mean, anxious about being anxious. Yea sounds like a good idea that could get to the root of whats causing it

[Lin]

It sounds like you think if you were able to offload from your head you will feel better. If you get your GP to refer you to the mental health team they will be able to help with this. I have a metal health nurse who lets me offload when I need to and is also available on the phone for bad days. They know all about you so can help you too with ways of getting over your anxiety and suggest NHS or mental health courses to go on to learn how to help yourself and meet other people on the courses to talk to who understand. There is also an out of hours Crisis phone number which is at night or weekends and they can see all your notes too so can help you offload and advise you. If you think tablets will help, a psychiatrist is best to see, but you might be lucky and just offloading to the right person means you don't need tablets too.