This is me like everyday. Just under the smile and laughter

I just clicked because I was wondering what happened to her foot.

"Anxiety isn't fun and games like people think." Who thinks that?

Yes, this is so important! Always try to be caring and understanding, you never know what your friends/family members might be going through.

It's difficult to explain people what's "wrong" with you when you supper from anxiety (I do as well). She totally nailed it.

I have ADD and paranoid schizophrenia and the anxiety as made me reclusive in my rental house on disability, the problem gets so bad ITS HORRIBLE! I just want to beg for treatment for the ADD, but I cant be treated for it cause other people abuse the medication and they think I would to even though I'm a completely different person than a typical abuser of drugs. and have no records against me. I wonder if its even legal to not treat me for it. all these medications for the anxiety and schizophrenia just making the pharmacy rich and I'm home daily wondering how I can manage symptoms and side affects. she said she chemically destroyed the bad part of my brain so she can regulate the chemicals medically now I'm more messed up and they wont admit that I have ADD with schizophrenia and the stress of all of this wasted time and effort to get me better is just a waste of 37 years of self education to get me nowhere in life. so don't abuse scripts some people may rely on them

Not many understand. Don’t you just hate it when you can’t answer your phone or door or even want to leave the house there the hardest days

Anxiety is wanting to die right there and then, so it would finally be over. I am lucky I am not suffering from it like I used to. Having someone who is there to listen helps a whole lot too.

Its not wanting to get out of bed,its not wanting to talk to people cause u can't handle ur own life is about,so I know I don't wanna know that their problems are cause it makes me have more anxiety for them. And I have enough for myself.

I have had Anxiety most of my life, heart racing, palliations, hate crowds can make it worse, sweating, nauseating choking feeling, A lot of ppl just think it's an act until I have an Anxiety attack in my car and thought I was dying scary let me tell you,

You are truly brave for doing this. I admire that. I’m autistic so I go through similar things. You’re beautiful! If you’re interested, I’d like to become friends?

I didn't know to much about anxiety at first, but I wanted to know because one of my friends has been suffering from it and being refused help. Hopefully my better understanding of the emotions that come forth. Thank you, Brittney for this amazing and brave post

Anxiety is horrid, hitting any time or place. It also causes my blood pressure to go as high as 220/120, that was an ambulance ride to the emerg. At 57 I have read and done so many things to control or try to but sometimes it is impossible. Mine started in my 40s I cannot imagine how hard it would be for a young person.

It is about time society took the issue of fear and anxiety seriously because it is becoming part of the very fabric of society. Having studied the human experience - physical, mental and spiritual - for many years, I have concluded that life is not random. There is a logical mechanism behind everything, even if we don't understand it fully. Anxiety too, though often not rational, happens because of specific causes. As we explore ourselves deeper we begin to uncover the roots of anxiety within us. I am hopeful that the process of reducing and removing anxiety, using physical, mental and spiritual tools, will make major progress.

I really need help in this..I think I was alone before.but after reading this article..I hope there is solution..I m suffering from third over a decade..Plz help me to get out of this.

Good article - pity about the questioning your faith thing, since that's a very healthy and important activity, which could lead to a reduction in anxiety.

What a brave women ! ;)

Anxiety is also waking up at 12:30-1 and your stomach is churning with the threat of bad indigestion. It happens to me much early Monday mornings since I became a social work supervisor and as a result I have IBS and no on medication for it.

I think I actually need to show this to my teachers

Meditate on the question...Who is anxious...Who Am I ? Every time a thought arises ask Who does this thought occur to and from whence does this thought arise within.Do not look for a verbal answer but follow the thought to it's source and with much practice it will dissolve. The 'mind' so called is a beautiful servant but a tyrant if unobserved..."thinking doth make cowards of us all" . Your very nature is bliss and happiness but 'mind' obscures this with 'thoughts'...do not fight merely observe and then ignore...much like a crowd in the street you are aware of the people but you do not fight each...you merely make your way between. it takes practice...all the best.

One word... Buspirone. It took my daughter from severe anxiety to absolute peace almost immediately. Works great.,

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WOW! I have recently had time off from my job due to illness and coming back have noticed volunteers and fellow staff are completely reliant on me for guidance, information, instruction. My comment is to acknowledge those of us who have very demanding jobs and lives but continue to bear the pressure of living each day with doing everything you can to keep your head above water. Because you have drowned before and you have been in the heart wrenching incapacitating throws of an attack that you think you will never survive. Even now in the memory it's hard to breathe and I can't see through the tears. I always deny the fact that this is an issue in my life and it is very hard to be honest to everyone about the gravitational pull this has in bringing me down.

She needs to start an exercise or yoga regime as soon as possible. This helps.

When i am with a few friends i act like everything is good with me but deep down i am destroyed, i hate the pannic attacks, i hate it when i wake up in the middel of the night with my hart racing, and the worst now is that there is only one person which helps me get through these moments but now she's busy with school and other suffs she considers more important than me and in fact they aren't, I mean how hard is for you to write a message with "How are you?" Do i ask too much after you say you love me and you can't live without me?, yes is true that we saved each other's lives and that she stopped me from killing myself a couple of times and i did the same for her but now it hurts me that she does not have enough time even for a good night call and we used to speak for hours and chat the same some not too much time ago, you know what i mean? It hurts like hell, I had some panic attacks that put me in hospital a couple of times because of that,and i miss and love her soo much...

I wish I could understand the true feeling of anxiety. It interests me how a persons life can be controlled so heavily on a mere thought. As a kid, this post reminds me of the drug addicts around my neighborhood that would constantly worry about the police, peering from their windows, etc. Without the drug use of course, I wonder if that is what it is like?

I have mild anxiety, not everything she describes falls in for me, but some things do, like heart punding out of nowhere and "what if's". This condition has a thousand faces and I was lucky enough to come across someone, who helped me realize what's going on, how to fight it. Additionally suffering from incurable diseases doesn;t help, but I manage. Especially I'm the lucky one who gets anxiety aura, so I know when to focus on that, take a stress reliever, change something, before the fear of many faces strucks with full impact :)

Thank you for this!!! I'm currently stuggling with anxiety and this shed so much light on my mental state. I though i am just being weird or i'm behaving unnaturaly, but now i know i'm not alone in this and it made me feel so much better. I'm so happy i stumbled upon this post, you have no idea.... :)

You 100% can "cure" anxiety, but you have to be willing to disconnect and change your way of thinking. Oh yeah and stop thinking it is unbeatable/part of who you are... it may be, but you can change who you are. Each generation is more spineless than the last in 21st century.

Anxiety sounds like life every day plain and boring every day life

I also have it but keep in myself. cant tell anyone afraid people will think i'm crazy because I think mine is very bad. trying hard to keep myself "awake".

I developed anxiety after a neck injury where a disk was pressing against my spinal cord. Doctors didn't think i needed surgery.. never-mind that it feels like somebody is standing on my neck most of the time... its been almost 3 years now...still suffering..:(

I don't like this. I suffer from anxiety and I don't suffer like that. NOT everyone has the same form of anxiety. My husband does to. We are both on medication. What bothers me the most is there is help out there and people rather play the "Oh I suffer from anxiety" card. If people really get the help, it changes your life. My husband was diagnosed with sever anxiety and depression. His medication helps both and he goes to see a therapist. Stop playing this card and get the help you need. Don't let it control you life! I diagnosed with anxiety this passed may. The littlest things set me off. Something as simple as going to the mall with my husband and I couldn't breath. I used to fight with my best friend ALL the time. I got medication and everything has changed. You don't need insurance to get help. We go a free clinic and they gave me the prescription I needed. I get it from wall mart, three month supply for $10. There is help for people if they want it.

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That is an ugly-a$$ foot.