New and exhausted from anxiety!

[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.

[Kuroneko77]

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.

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

[NixonRulz]

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