New and exhausted from anxiety!

Hi everybody! I'm obviously new here. I've dealt with little bouts of anxiety and depression throughout my life, but have currently experienced intense anxiety off and on for about a year now. I am worried about everything and feel like I am always making catastrophic mistakes at work and at home. 99% of the time, everything turns out fine, but I've become increasingly paranoid and once one worry is resolved another one will pop up. Now I don't even have time to rest in between worries! The rational part of me knows that I shouldn't obsess and obsess over worries, but my brain keeps spinning and I am almost always in a panicked state. I've made an appointment with a psychologist but will not be able to see him until the end of January. If anyone has any advice on methods for coping, especially in the meantime, I would really appreciate it. Also hearing other peoples' stories would do me a world of good so that I know I am not alone! I'm trying to exercise almost every day and am starting to go to meditation classes - and this helps - but I still feel worried, depressed, and exhausted.

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Originally Posted by Skyy81

Hi everybody! I'm obviously new here. I've dealt with little bouts of anxiety and depression throughout my life, but have currently experienced intense anxiety off and on for about a year now. I am worried about everything and feel like I am always making catastrophic mistakes at work and at home. 99% of the time, everything turns out fine, but I've become increasingly paranoid and once one worry is resolved another one will pop up. Now I don't even have time to rest in between worries! The rational part of me knows that I shouldn't obsess and obsess over worries, but my brain keeps spinning and I am almost always in a panicked state. I've made an appointment with a psychologist but will not be able to see him until the end of January. If anyone has any advice on methods for coping, especially in the meantime, I would really appreciate it. Also hearing other peoples' stories would do me a world of good so that I know I am not alone! I'm trying to exercise almost every day and am starting to go to meditation classes - and this helps - but I still feel worried, depressed, and exhausted.

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Welcome :) and I try to take things easy. Listening to relaxing apparently helps, I use relaxing melodies which does natural sounds. I suffer bad health anxiety. Still anxiety though xD

Health anxiety was always my least favorite of the many types of anxiety I had

I could convince myself I had anything and Dr. Google always affirmed my suspicions

Problem was I kept getting a clean bill of health

There comes a point where you will just get tired of being fooled by your mind's games thatAnxiety plays

When you believe you have a new illness that you self diagnosed, just tell yourself that believing you have a catastrophic illness is one of the main symptoms of anxiety

It's the anxiety that needs to be understood to be able to be free of it