Generalized Anxiety Disorder

[Rosemary Krolik]

I want my account deleted.

[Jules1979]

Hi I'm Rose,
I have been suffering from GAD for the past four years. I just wanted to know if anybody feels the way I feel. I am always worrying even if there is nothing to worry about. I feel as if something great in my life is going to be taken away from me such as my beautiful condo in San Diego, my car,job, friendships. Etc. Maybe it has do to with the way that I was raised. But I feel really terrible, I hate having this constant anxiety in my chest. I want it to go away. I have tried Herbal supplements,and the one that has worked is SAME, it really alleviates a lot of stress that I have.
I also worry about being alone all of the time, I have a type of anxiety that takes over my body, when I think about not having a significant other.
I feel the anxiety all over my body, my brain, chest.

Yes I can relate! My anxiety takes over my body on and off throughout the day:( however the only thing I worry about is the anxiety. I'm on medicine so I'm praying it eventually works !!! My head is constantly tense along with my neck and my stomach is always churning.

[NixonRulz]

Hi I'm Rose,
I have been suffering from GAD for the past four years. I just wanted to know if anybody feels the way I feel. I am always worrying even if there is nothing to worry about. I feel as if something great in my life is going to be taken away from me such as my beautiful condo in San Diego, my car,job, friendships. Etc. Maybe it has do to with the way that I was raised. But I feel really terrible, I hate having this constant anxiety in my chest. I want it to go away. I have tried Herbal supplements,and the one that has worked is SAME, it really alleviates a lot of stress that I have.
I also worry about being alone all of the time, I have a type of anxiety that takes over my body, when I think about not having a significant other.
I feel the anxiety all over my body, my brain, chest.

Hiya, Rosemary and welcome

Worrying when there is nothing to worry about is why we are all here in the first place! it is what we do here.

The physical symptoms that are caused by our thoughts make this even more fun. My symptoms of choice were heart palps and a tights chest. Nothing better than thinking you are going to have a heart attack

Getting in a relationship is what you have developed as your trigger. Everyone makes up their own but that is what you have chosen, for a lack of better words

This can be beaten. Lots here have crossed over to the other side of kickin ass in life

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[purweb]

Hi Rose,
I came here for the exact reason you did, to confirm that I am not crazy nor am I in this alone, and believe me.. we are not. :) hooray for that! My anxiety was/ is pretty crippling as well. Every night I thought I was going to die from a heart attack because I couldn't calm down and my heart was going 100mph it seemed. Finally after months of not feeling like myself, I decided to seek help and medication and it has helped a lot. Granted, I too spent those months sipping tea and experimenting with oils and meditation and I still do some of those things, but I have not felt this much relief and normal in quite sometime! Have you considered that? I know a lot of people aren't into meds, what are your ideas on that?
xx

[Jittery44]

I think you need to get on a low dose of valium. Start as low as you can, say like 2mg a day. You will feel better 15 minutes after taking one. But be aware that tolerance builds up quickly and you will need to keep upping your dose. I started at 2mg a day and 2 years later I am up to 10mg a day and feeling very little if any effect from it. I refuse to go up further. But it was a miracle drug for 2 years and kept me going. I plan on weaning myself off it soon and trying something else. You could probably stretch it out further if you took it as needed. Say a few times a week or when you are really suffering. God bless and I hope you find relief from this dreadful disease.