Nictro
12-06-2008, 10:25 PM
Hi I'm a 18 year old guy and have had mild anxiety all my life. In the last week things have been a lot worse. It started when my wisdom tooth was coming in and I was having pain, and being the hypochondriac that I am I looked up stuff on the internet. This only made things worse and I was sure i had an infected wisdom tooth. After a while the pain stopped and i noticed a little bump on the inside of the right side of my mouth. The bump moved around a little and so i immediately thought it was cancer. I went to the dentist a couple of days ago and he said it was just some inflammation and to gargle with salt water. Later that day my anxiety was getting really bad and I started to notice all these things that were wrong with me. So again I went to the terrible google and looked up symptoms and thought I was suffering from some other kind of cancer like lymphoma because my lymph node on my right side above my collar bone was swollen. So I went to the Dr the next day and had a check up done. He said that it was just a little swollen and nothing to worry about and started to talk to me about anxiety. After the appointment I went home and my Mom had been with me during the appointment and she is a psychologist and suggested that I should see a therapist to help deal with the anxiety. Later that night I had a panic attack and i'd never had one before I was freaking out and crying just scared out of my mind. My Mom and sister helped calm me down and were really supportive. My anxiety was getting worse at night so I was having trouble sleeping which was only making things worse. I told them how scared I was to be alone at night and they said they would sleep out in the living room with me. That was last night and it was the first good sleep I'd had in a while. Today I woke up still feeling anxious and my throat was tight like someone had they're hand around it, I also had shortness of breath. Through out today I have gone from feeling really anxious to moderately. I went out and raked some leaves to get some exercise and to clear my head. As I was writing this I have become more anxious and the tightness in my throat has returned. I'm going to see a Therapist on wednesday who specializes in Anxiety and uses ACT(Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) so I hope this helps.
I was wondering if anyone else has gone through ACT before and if it helped.
Well thanks for reading sorry if I rambled too much.
I was wondering if anyone else has gone through ACT before and if it helped.
Well thanks for reading sorry if I rambled too much.