Anxieties and My Fear?!
Question: Hi my name is Justin, i'm 20 years old I just got my associates with a 3.08 GPA and am waiting to start my Batchlor's in the fall for college, unfortunetly since I have this free time, I've had my anxieties bother me to the point I've been crying alot and Been scared recently. My 2 fears are Knives and Dying from them, I have a loving family and I want to get over this I'm seeing A Psychiotrist and am currently taking celexa and xannax, I wanna get over this, but it's hard can somebody whose been there and done that give me some advice T_T Thx
By the way If you have an xbox gamertag plz give it to me Mine is GH Warl0rD and that way I can chat ya, Thx
Answers: Hi my name is Justin, i'm 20 years old I just got my associates with a 3.08 GPA and am waiting to start my Batchlor's in the fall for college, unfortunetly since I have this free time, I've had my anxieties bother me to the point I've been crying alot and Been scared recently. My 2 fears are Knives and Dying from them, I have a loving family and I want to get over this I'm seeing A Psychiotrist and am currently taking celexa and xannax, I wanna get over this, but it's hard can somebody whose been there and done that give me some advice T_T Thx
By the way If you have an xbox gamertag plz give it to me Mine is GH Warl0rD and that way I can chat ya, Thx
dude chill life is too short to be afraid of anything and you cannot be afraid of death because its a part of life. I'm 25 now and can honestly say I'm not afraid of anything especially death but Ive lost allot of family and friends along the way Ive had best freinds murdered overdosed heres an example in 2005 i lost my childhood in diapers best friend a week later my grandmother who raised me then the topper my father who saved me from selling drugs and looking at jail time then after loosing all that i went blind due to a brain tumor and had to have a second brain surgery i almost died a second time after the surgery i regained my vison but i could not work so i then lost my house and 2 Cadillacs i worked hard to have and ended up in my moms basement so I'm battle tested and i ain't afraid of sh*t my man but all this is irrelevant to your situation but I'm sayin look life is hard no one said it was supposed to be easy grab a hold of your self its cool. after everything Ive been through i know this 1 there is a heaven and 2 everything happens for a reason if only to force us to do things we needed to do anyway. listen goto a homeles shelter and volenteer you will soon relize how good you life is and also get in the kitchen and cook anything its my favorite thing to do yes and use knifes dude your not going to die. cooking is the only way i can escape stress im serious about the homeless shelter thing do it.
P.S goto youtube.com and search bob marley music (evrything is gonna be alright) this will relax you and check out like Ooh Child Five Stairsteps, music will set you free 4 real also drugs and doctors may help but you gotta work this out in your head but im the type who dont belive in a new year resolution becasue if i wana change something in my life i dont waint untill new year to do it i just do it immediatly hope this helps dude evrything is gona be alright
you are doing what you need to be doing, seeing a psychiatrist is good, you might also want to work with a cognitive behavioral therapist, they are very good at helping you find your way. remember, nothing worth having is easily gotten.
it take time..it takes time for the meds to work..you need to focus on the great things in your life...keep seeing your therapist....look forwards to that college degree..volunteer somewhere...use up that spare time....you'll do fine...
Well, I don't know, I had some similar anxieties I guess. When I was a new mom in the late 80's, I had anxieties that I was going to be shot while in public. I went to therapy but I didn't take meds. I am not a meds type of person. I have to have a really really bad headache before I'll even take something for that. When my daughter was going to therapy in high school I refused to let them medicate her and she did just fine without the meds. I helped her a lot too, probably because of what I knew about my own issues and how the dr. taught me to deal with them.
The dr. taught me deep breathing exercises for getting through the attack and I did a count down list for all my various anxieties and some other techniques.
So it I'm understanding you correctly, because you have time on your hands and not busy it makes your anxieties more prevelant?
Seems to me, if your issue is needing to stay busy then you should find something that interests you to keep you busy. Go to the gym and work out or some other hobby. I know for me, if I stay housebound for too long, my anxieties start creeping in again, so I make it a point to get out of the house and do something fun for me at least once a week. Not an easy task with 5 kids and a hubby who isn't here much due to Air Force duties and the auctions he goes to.
Sorry I'm not much better help and probably not what you want to hear. I'm sure your dr. would have some ideas. That's what you're paying him for right? Good luck!
Hello, I used to have irrational fears that affected my life for 7 years. Some of them were stupid & irrational - like my fear of the afterlife - but they seemed very real at the time. Now I'm cured & am looking forward to a better life than one in which I never suffered! I'm 33 now.
Meds just pushed my anxiety into the background, not get rid of it. What I did learn was to make most of my spare time to take my mind off things. Computer games, very long walks & good diet helped.
You see, it's all about breathing. When you feel tense & anxious, you don't breathe properly enough to get fresh oxygen into the brain for it to function properly. That's why you have disturbing & irrational thoughts. After one of my very long walks along the coast & on beaches, I still remember the noise my lungs made when I'd relaxed enough to breathe fresh oxygen for the first time in a very long time. CBT helps apparently, although I never did it.
watch the xanax, when it wears off you get funny.taking this is like chasing your tail...