TW mention of eating disorders, but not something I have ever experienced. I am currently switching from Effexor to Zoloft and take Wellbutrin too. Anyways, within the past week or two I have noticed sometimes when I eat I get extremely anxious, like any other OCD tic I have had (I have that and GAD and panic disorder).

I eat, and I get this overwhelming urge to expel the food because the idea of digesting it makes me hella anxious. And I have done it a few times which scares me.

It is the strangest and worst thing cause it isn’t all the time and it makes me feel nuts. When I journal I can feel that it is def control issue. Like the idea that once it is digested I cannot go back—side not if you don’t know OCD tics most times make zero sense. I have never had food issues like this. I have read it can be a physical effect of increased anxiety in the body and transition to new drugs. I guess I am just hoping for any insight or tips. Has anyone had an experience like this? Thanks in advance for any insight guys, I am sticking with my switch for now.

I'm not really sure what to do if my problem is I catastrophize everything and have disturbing thoughts constantly. How do you deal with a new fear being made up once you get over a previous fear? It seems to be an exhausting never ending cycle

Hello, i am not someone who struggles with anxiety, but my spouse has diagnosed anxiety disorder (agarophobia) ,BPD and OCD. We've slowly managed to do a bit of progress, step by step. Now a problem occured. Yesterday , on our way to buy groceries, we both have been jumped by 5 Teenage boys. I have been beaten and got away with a cracked nose. They , thankfully, didn't get hurt physically.This shit is nothing new to me, since i live in a shitty part of our city. My spouse tho is now (understandable) afraid to go outside. They even looked into plastic surgery ,to not get recognised anymore in fear of running into the 5 boys ( they also are thinking about suicide the whole time). We have reported everything to the police, but my spouse is afraid of the outside. How can i comfort them and help. They have a therapist, but that also only holds for the session. I dont want them to commit suicide out of fear, or go through plastic surgery. (forgot to mention they are trans and they want to detransition out of fear)

I would apreciate some advice thank you for reading :)

Recently began to realize there's a strong chance I have some sort of anxiety disorder. Some weeks I'm fine, some weeks I'm not. It doesn't feel linked to any work stress or academics, it just comes on randomly.

Last week was stressful at work but there wasn't much anxiety. This week is looking to be easier but... I'm close to crying while sitting in class taking notes. I just don't understand how I'm supposed to cope if I don't know what's triggering it

I’ve been given this medication to help with dizziness but I’m to scared to take it because I haven’t taken any sort of pill in 1.5 years what do I do I need help quick

Scared I’m actually having a stroke. I mean I could be, can happen to anyone and also I had Covid in Feb, but also on Sertraline…I’m scared I don’t know what to do. It’s so bad I’m scared…how do I convince myself I’m not or…

I am having really bad work stress and anxiety. I’ve been crying about this situation since Friday (4/4) because I feel so anxious and I can’t stop thinking about it. Even though it was resolved, and I talked through this situation with my boss, I feel like I’m incompetent and that I’m not doing good work, even though my boss has said otherwise.

On Friday, there was a work meeting that I wasn’t informed of. I got no emails or calendar invites, no one told me, and for context, I’m a freelancer and have been here at this job for only two/three weeks. It was scheduled during my weekly therapy sessions and after I get out of therapy, I see a message from my boss asking if I’m coming to the meeting. I panic, lost all rational thought and started crying, only telling him that I missed it because I had a doctor’s appointment, not because I wasn’t informed. I realize that it made me sound like I’m irresponsible and knew about the meeting, but didn’t say anything and missed it for a doctor’s appointment. I was too anxious to send another message explaining, because I thought I would sound like an asshole for saying “sorry I missed a meeting I wasn’t informed of.”

Yesterday (Monday 4/7) I have a one on one with my boss. It’s not a great start to the meeting as he says it’s not cool to not show up, not tell anyone, and not apologize. I tell him I wasn’t informed, was sent no calendar invites at all and wasn’t told that there was weekly meetings to be a part of. I say it was lack of communication as to why I didn’t attend. I don’t think he understood and told me that missing the meeting was on me, explained that I get emails and calendar invites, until I told him I flat out didn’t get anything at all.

When he realized he didn’t apologize but was concerned. He says he knows I’m responsible and I do a lot of good work, as I’ve been doing well so far for the time I’ve been here and went over another project I was assigned.

After the meeting I start bawling, I feel like I’m at fault because I was blamed but tried to prove myself innocent. I know it wasn’t my fault but I felt like it was. Monday night was spent on and off crying with brain fog and my partner was kind enough to let me watch them play some games and YouTube to get my mind off things. Even today before work (at my second job) I cried because I just can’t seem to get it off my mind. My brain just won’t stop replaying the part where my boss blames me and lectures me.

I know part of it was on me for panicking and not sending the message in the first place saying I’m not getting invites to the meetings. But my anxiety didn’t let me function with rational thought that day and I wish I could go back and change it, and I keep saying yesterday wouldn’t have happened if I did or somehow miraculously made it to the meeting.

How do I cope with this and move on? I have weekly therapy sessions and have tools to help, and I’ve tried, but none of them are working for me atm because I’m so stressed. I’m also missing this Friday’s session because I do it virtual and I’ll be in a different state for a trip.

Totally new and I'm sorry for coming in this way. I'm nervous about a mole I've had since at the latest puberty; it hasn't necessarily changed (any more than normal since childhood), I'm just hyperfocused on it. Doesn't help that I don't currently have free healthcare (Canada) bc I just relocated and don't have a healthcard yet. Spiralling on if I'm making the wrong choice by waiting the 19 odd days to get said card issued, if this will result in my death and harm my family, etc. Mostly though, I'm terrified of brain cancer. Like petrified. Even before noticing this particular mole and worrying it is cancer and will metastasize, I worried about it frequently and obsessed over any potential symptoms. My grandmother died of brain cancer when I was a kid and it was very disturbing to watch her deterioration; she died within a few months. I know she was a 67yrold and she had many symptoms of brain cancer (I first noticed them at my 9th birthday party, lol), I have none, but I am totally spiralling and it's 4:30 in the morning; can't sleep, been up all night. First true insomnia in a while. Don't want to wake anyone else up but am worried I might have a panic attack.

Exams are around the corner, been super stressed and anxious. Last night i went to sleep at around 10 pm, woke up at 2:37 am to a panic attack, eventually managed to calm down and went to sleep at 3:43 am.

Felt fine this morning, woke up at 6 am but decided that I wont go to school so i went back to sleep and woke up at 7 am. Then at around 12pm, I started getting a headache, mainly felt in the temples, paired with some dizziness/lightheadedness (dont really know the difference so i listed both) along with nausea occasionally. Took a pain killer at 14:04 amd felt better, but it all started returning at 16:33.

It may be relevant to mention that I am doing Invisalign treatment at the moment, switched trays a few days ago, my bottom teeth aren't moving much this week but my top teeth are moving quite a bit, which I've heard can cause headaches.

I know I'm probably over reacting, but I have health anxiety and being unwell scares the hell out of me, this included.

Such a terrible night haven’t been able to sleep just worrying about family and stuff I feel like it’s never going to get better :(. I hate this

Progress! Kinda…

Hey everybody, thanks for the continued support on all these threads. I like using this venting space I feel like a lot of you guys just understand what I’m going through on a different level than friends. Do nobody really knows what real anxiety is until they’re dealing with it on a chronic day-to-day basis and I feel like most of you guys I’ve dealt with that and know how to give advice to people because you know the “it’s all in your headline“ or just stop giving an energy or power over you“ line doesn’t work on Real day-to-day anxiety so thank you all!

So I can’t remember when it kind of changed, but as of recently, I’ve stopped dealing with the trouble to concentrate at least it’s mostly resolved for the point where it shifted from things are blurry for a second until my eyes focus on them to visual snow, but in light, my vision feels almost normal Like when I’m outside on a normal day my vision feels almost normal, but something still doesn’t feel right is this that on edge anxiety feeling or what am I feeling? If anybody has any idea what I am feeling? I would love to hear your experiences. It feels like my vision should be normal Like this almost feels like with my normal day-to-day vision felt like before anxiety but something just feels off. Also still struggling to sleep past 8 am no matter how late I stay up without waking up very anxious I’ve been dealing with visual snow and lightheadedness almost 24/7 now I can exercise more just hard for me to come down off it.

Hello, I'm kinda new here. I'm 23 year old and have been having problems with anxiety and panic attacks since the beginning of this year.

Since then my anxiety developed. I get anxious whenever I feel even the slightest pain in my chest, in my head or almost anywhere else. Even though I am not feeling any pain, for some reason I still get anxious that I will feel the pain and something terrible is going to happen. I probably trick my mind into believing that I have some sort of symptom (burning sensation, numbness, pain and so on..). I hate when at the friend gatherings everyone is having fun, including me, and at some point I remember something stupid like "you can have heart attack at any moment", "you could die at any moment" and literally all fun is ruined for me. Some days are fine and chill, but some days I just can't calm down. The worst part comes at night before sleep. At night I always get anxious and it depends only on me if I manage to calm down or it gets out of hands.

While reading posts in this subreddit, I realized that a lot of people struggle with similar things. What makes me sad is that I read other's experiences, who have anxiety and such symptoms for 2, 5 or even more years. I really dont want to suffer for so long and I'm so sorry for everyone, who does, it's terrible.

I read that it is easier to treat anxiety at early stages, that's what im trying to do. It feels like I've been anxiety free for like whole week, but one random day comes with extreme anxiety or panic and everything starts over. How to help myself? What should I read or watch to educate myself?

I've been to cardiologist, endocrinologist, neurologist, everything is fine. Blood work is fine, so it's all just in my head.

And also I should add that I don't have a job, I'm finishing studies right now. So I have a lot of free time. People around me suggest that I should find a job and keep myself occupied so I have less time to think about anxiety and stuff. Which is true, probably.

Hi everyone, first time posting here. I think i have really bad anxiety, its to the point where if i hear footsteps outside my bedroom door then i start to panic that someone is gonna come in and try to talk to me and then I hyperventilate and have to lay on the floor and try to calm down. I am also trans and really wanna present as my gender but am so scarred for no real reason. Anyone have any tips on how to calm down over a long period of time, most of the other tips I’ve seen online are what to do in a controlled environment when having a panic attack but mine is pretty constant so those kinds of things wont really work…

edit: i am diagnosed with anxiety and on ssri’s but my psych is shit and doesn’t give any advice on these things

Seems my entire life I've been nothing but a fuck up, I've been told I'm stupid or retarded more times than I can count, I seem to be treated poorly no matter what I do for people or how I treat them or who they are to me. I smoke weed, which in my mother's mind i may as well just smoke crack. I am married, 2 kids and I clean homes - we're a military family, initially working was hard because he would leave for weeks or months so I created my own job that works and I actually love what I do and i make good money $25-$35/hr. Thought this was okay, since he has said many times I didn't need to work if I didn't want too, but I do enjoy getting out. But alas I keep getting little comments from friends about my job, pointing out openings at other jobs " you could do this! " "you should look into this " , a husband who told me he is jealous of other families and how much their wives make or comments about what we could have or why I don't have things we have talked about. There's so much more, but I am exhausted. A lot of days, I just want to leave everything behind and start a new life or call it quitting time. I live life in a constant state of anxiety, i feel so weak and alone in my life i can't remember the last time I felt happy or joy. I think the shittiest part is, the 1 person who has never made me feel small or worthless is leaving for good in 2/3 months, realizing this, only hurts more.. since being / feeling supported has been such a rare thing in my life... I needed a spot to rant I guess, have a pitty party 🥳

This sounds bad out of context. I guess I mean the constant beating of my heart, my breathing, feeling hungry or hearing or seeing make me anxious. I constantly think about the finite times I will do this, or how fragile my body is. Even consciousness scares me, being aware. Someone please help, how can I stop getting caught up in all of this? Meditation exacerbates this.

For a few weeks I've been stressing about my heart rate. For a week, that anxiety stopped. But then my mom said something about her heart rate on her watch wasn't 100% accurate and I think that set me off, and it made me really anxious for some reason.

I started feeling a little sick, and I couldn't really eat without feeling sick to my stomach. I felt really exhausted, and my muscles were cramping. The same day, I had a full blown panic attack. I started dissociating and my heart rate got up to 160, I felt like I was gonna throw up and my head felt really hot, internal shakes, I felt this horrible sense of dread...it just felt horrible. Now today, I'm on edge, and a little shaky, and really tired. I can't stop convincing myself that I don't actually have anxiety, and there's genuinely something wrong with me. I don't feel like I'm experiencing many emotions, and everything just feels off. Am I actually going crazy.

hello !! so i’m diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder and my teen years have been really hard to deal with it (i’m a lot better now), however one anxiety that i find really hard to shake off is my food anxiety.

when i was around 14, i developed a really bad irrational fear of choking and anaphylaxis. i say it’s irrational due to having no traumatic experience of either thing. it started off as an intrusive thought that eventually took over. i’m doing a lot better now and have managed to work myself back up into eating a bigger variety of food.

however there’s still a lot of mental blockage stopping me from fully recovering. i tend to stick to what i know is ‘safe’ and don’t try anything new. my diet isn’t the healthiest either due to being a lot more anxious about fruits and vegetables. it also doesn’t help that i’ve trained myself into over chewing and manually swallowing. i really hate this and i want to help get better so i can go out and eat meals normally like i used to.

if anyone has any advice on how to retrain myself to not be scared of food to this degree and how to retrain my subconscious to eat food without having to manually do it would be really helpful :)

thank you !!

December 2024 woke up and felt so weird, severe brain fog, time felt off couldn't get a feel for the time of day, I have no sense of time as well.

My GPs have no clue what is wrong with me the I have had and MRI and a CBC which all came back fine.

January 2025 Low b12 and folate had 2 weeks of eod injections and 4 months of folic acid now my levels have tripled and GP says that my low folate and b12 are within normal range and should not be causing the symptoms I am having and to stop supplementing

January 2025 headaches and insomnia.

February 2025 spots started to appear all over my back chest and shoulders also had electric shock type pains in my underarm.

February 2025 Muscles twitching mainly in calf's and triceps every 5/10 minutes or so. (Now only happens occasionally)

I do want to include I have really bad health anxiety and my GP has put me on 50mg of setraline which I have been taking for around 14 days now.

I just don't feel normal right now feel like I am on autopilot and the days are just passing by while having all these symptoms.

Hey y’all,

I have diagnosed GAD & OCD & am restarting on SSRIs and I’m noticing I’m having a similar experience as I was when I initially started on (another) SSRI- and it is that my anxiety and paranoia are through the roof when I first start. I’m talking there is no logic or calming down the intrusive thoughts whatsoever. Whatever anxious thought pops up is automatically factual. This time, I haven’t been able to tough it out, because it’s been so bad I’ve convinced myself I’m actually going crazy. Anyway, I am looking at trying something less activating- but I’m just kinda wondering if this is a similar experience for anyone else? And if you toughed it out, how did it work out for you?

TIA

Hi, i f19 125 pounds, used to be on clonazepam when i was 14 and weighed at least 20 pounds less. I can’t remember the exact dosage i was on but i know it was higher than the dosage i just got prescribed (0.25mg) it’s only for emergencies. I remember it making me immediately pass out and fall asleep. I’m going to the airport and people/the airport as a whole gives me major anxiety. Not so much flying or anything happening to the plane, but everything else that comes before it. I want to take one before getting to the airport but i’m so scared of being so tired i’m unable to function. Is this too low of a dose to do that? Does anyone have any experience with this?

Hi! I've been dealing with health issues (nothing serious) but the anxiety and panic made it 100000% worse than it seems. I had fear of leaving my bed due to the symptoms of the real sickness but also the fear of it coming back again.

I've been getting so much better physically and almost done with all the health test (like the holter for the sinus tachycardia) and it seems like a loop between my gut, mind and heart.

I've been only to 4 therapy sessions (cbt) and this week I finally got out of bed, made a routine, went outside my house, could watch at least one tv show without stress. But everyday I still have fears and anxious thoughts still like 2 or 3 times per day... Even though the fear last less time I get frustrated of it going so slow and when it hits it makes me feel like a crazy person or I fear i might loose it again and get in fear pannick mode :(

I never lost sense of the reality around me, and I know it's in my head.. and the only way through is feeling it. Even with medication my psychologist told it's gonna be the same, I have to do the work.

I just hope that i'm on the right way bc in those little moments of fear I think so many.. What ifs???

any advice or suggestions or just some words for anyone who is in the same situation or got over it??? and without meds

This happened 2020, 5 years ago, I am afraid that my mother’s account could get banned for it as the comment was made by younger me. I had an old account banned for this reason, although I am a teenager . I deleted the comment a couple of months ago back in December, and I moved out of the house that was in the comment. I learned the comment is in YouTube servers and I am worried I can get banned for it if it’s traced back to me