scaredtomove
06-24-2009, 08:47 AM
Hi. I've had anxiety panic disorder for five years now, and have not dealt well with it for any of them. Decided to join here to find others with similiar situations.
A quick introduction of myself: single mother of four wonderful children, 16 to 7. Two of them have "issues".. one with Aspberger's disorder and one is bipolar. Was dx'ed with fibromyalgia at same time as anxiety panic disorder. Live with pain daily, but can work around that to an extent, the anxiety just knocks me to the floor and steps all over me.
Most days I walk around just "knowing" I have something horribly wrong with me. I'm dying, I have to be to feel like this. A mole on my back is skin cancer. A twitch in my head is a brain tumor. And on and on and on.
Prior to the onset, I had NO anxiety issues. Never did. I was 30 when the first panic attack happened and my life went from great to crap overnight.
I'm so tired of people telling me not to "worry" and "quit thinking about it". If I could do that, I sure would. I'd love to get back to my "pre panic attack" self, but I doubt that will ever happen. I just want to get to a point where anxiety isn't the first thought on my mind when my eyes open. I guess I just want to function.
A quick introduction of myself: single mother of four wonderful children, 16 to 7. Two of them have "issues".. one with Aspberger's disorder and one is bipolar. Was dx'ed with fibromyalgia at same time as anxiety panic disorder. Live with pain daily, but can work around that to an extent, the anxiety just knocks me to the floor and steps all over me.
Most days I walk around just "knowing" I have something horribly wrong with me. I'm dying, I have to be to feel like this. A mole on my back is skin cancer. A twitch in my head is a brain tumor. And on and on and on.
Prior to the onset, I had NO anxiety issues. Never did. I was 30 when the first panic attack happened and my life went from great to crap overnight.
I'm so tired of people telling me not to "worry" and "quit thinking about it". If I could do that, I sure would. I'd love to get back to my "pre panic attack" self, but I doubt that will ever happen. I just want to get to a point where anxiety isn't the first thought on my mind when my eyes open. I guess I just want to function.