Hello

[kieranlord]

Hi all,

My name is Kieran Lord, I am 26 from the UK, Id thought I'd just post a quick hello before posting away.

I am a postgraduate student, interested in deveolping interventions for anxiety conditions and am currently developing a free to use self-help website.

I have a history of suffering from social anxiety myself and hope to share any knowledge on this board with you all.

Kieran :)

[culinaryking]

I want a solution to anxiety disorders my docter emidatly put ne on paxil and it works great its kept me going. But i cannot stay on it no longer than 4-6 months or my body will get immune to it. We never discussed an alternate solution i have had problems with anxiety for about 7 years now. threw those years i have been on and off paxil many many times. after awhile this might sounds crazy but i felt like a addicted to herion or somethin and i would go to my dealer the docter for a fix. in a way iam addicted to paxil when adddicted dont have the supstance they need there life is hell. well iam the same when iam off paxil. on the outside i way look all happy go lucky but i cannot work cannot have a girlfirend. what is my future it scares me that i will not be able to travel get married hold a steady job. i realize how i took life for granted before anxiety my anxiety consisded of fealing anxiuos and vomiting. the vomiting has caused me to loose many job, freinds great oppertunities in life. well i guess my next step is to go back to my docter and be put back on paxil again i have to realize that this is what my life will consised of

[culinaryking]

hello iam 24 and i have had anxiety since i was about 18 when i had my anxiety under control due to paxil i started to embark on my career i found a passion for cooking i love cooking it make me happy. i really struggled with anxiety threw my year at chefs school. there were times when i wouild not go to school for days and make up exucess. i was almost kicked out but i pulled it together and graduated. now the cooking profeesion is a very stressfull enviroment. a alchohol and drugs use is very common among people in the cooking industry. i wonder if cooking is the right path for me. i have spent alot of time and money towards becoming a chef. it hurts to think i might hav to give it up something i have suck a passion for and which makes me happy. but on the other hand it may be fuling my anxiety. once in my life i was doing very well i was a sous chef at a very successful restaurant. i was making good money and had alot of responsibility and was trusted. i was of paxil and had minor problems with anxiety. then the day after my well deserved x mas break i came back to work to find out the restaurant was closing. at the time it did not really hit me i was kinda in shock. my anxiety started back up again when i had to go back to school for 6 moths to upgrade my course i think what triggered it was being back in the school i had such a bad experience with before. i remember many times throwing up before goin to class and goin to class starving of hunger. but in the end i did pass the final exam but it was not easy at all. after that i was unemployed for about 2 months then and old freind of mine which i looked up to got me a job in a kitchen that lasted a day after my long first shift i new that this was not going to work. i lost a very good friend because of that and i feel embarrassed and a failure. now i have a fear of getting a new job and have the same thing happin again. i have never been the same since the restuarant closed i lost alittle passion. well i guess thats it every time a write i only want to write alittle bit but i have so much to say so much bottled up inside. i have never really been able to talk to my family or friends about my anxiety. this is why i joined the forum it feels good to talk