Anxiety 24 hours a day 7 days a week!

[Robyn_jane]

Hello, I have anxiety 24/7 it makes me not able to breathe properly I get the feeling to take a deep breath and can't do it, I also get chest pains on and off but the breathing is constant. Half the time I don't know what I'm anxious at. Please can someone calm me and tell me I'm not the only one!! I have also had bloods and a ECG so I know it's nothing wrong with me medically because it would have shown on my bloods and they all came back fine. Any help I will appreciate! Thankyou in advance!!

[Robyn_jane]

I have exactly the same thing apart from I've never had it as a child or anything, about 2 years ago I had a panic attack but that was the end of it and it never happened again but about a month ago I went to bed as normal and yawned but I couldn't get a full breath of air and it basically didn't feel satisfying and then of course I was consentrating on it and it kept happening and to cut a long story short after hospitals, blood tests, ECG and panic attacks they all said it was anxiety, I constantly feel the need to take a deep breath malt of the time it doesn't feel enough, I know exactly what you are experiencing I'm so glad I'm not the only one :( like I've said in previous posts I am going for some CBT (cognative behavioural therapy) this should hopefully help the way I think about things, because I don't now about you but I constanly think the worst of everything, or I constanly think I'm ill, I worry what people think of me. It annoys me though because if I'm out and about or busy I don't need this "deep breath" but when I'm at home and my daughter is asleep for example It happens all the time, laying in bed it happens and in the morning it's terrible :( so glad I've found someone experiencing the same as me!

[Elizabeth1309]

Hello. I'm new to this but need some advice! I've had anxiety an OCD for a very long time. I remember symptoms from when I was a small child so I've had this for a long time!. I normally would have anxiety or a panic attack it would last awhile then it would go away an i could go on with my day. But it's been different lately. The last week I have had anxiety from when I wake up till I go to bed! More like a panic attack! I feel like I have to breathe on my own an when I take deep breaths I don't get enough. This is all day. I went to the er and they did a chest X-ray an EKG said it looked normal. Said it seems to be anxiety. I was out of my Prozac for probably 3 days and have been back on it for about 3 days now. I'm so exhausted and just wanna lay around an not stand up because it seems harder to breathe. Does anyone else have this and does it still sound like anxiety ?

[Robyn_jane]

I will let you know how I get on, I think it's worse because I used to be out all the time I have horses too so I was constant with them before I became pregnant and now being at home with my daughter all the time my anxiety gets awful like I said though if we go out and I occupie myself it's not too bad, just the constant urge to take a deep breath and not being able to do it a so frustrating! X

[4Maddie44]

I find my anxiety is worse in the mornings too, and when I am alone, which I usually am, it is worse.  If I go out and do something and try to occupy myself, the anxiety is not so bad.  You say the same, out with others and OK, but once alone again, the anxiety comes on.  I wish I knew, like you, why this is.  What is it with being alone that brings on anxiety?

Like you, I have always been a worrier.  You are young and have a young baby, so you have busy days.  I am glad you are on a waiting list to see a therapist.  I do hope you get to see them soon.  I would be very interested to know how CBT works.  

[Robyn_jane]

Thankyou for your replies, my anxiety is worse in a morning and also when I am on my own with my daughter who is 3 months old, I am 19, I have always been a worrier but it's gotten worse :( I feel stuck in my own bubble, I don't know how to control it :( I have a appoitment with a cognative behavioural therapist but I don't know when it is yet I'm on a waiting list, yesterday we went out for a family meal and the whole time I was there I was fine and as soon as I got home it started again :(

[mike4949]

I have anxiety too. I have been on medications since 8 years ago. You're not alone. You can see a specialist.

[4Maddie44]

Yes it is strange but I too sometimes wonder why I am anxious.  it just seems to come on for no reason.  I did try breathing deeply from my stomach rather than from my chest, and it can help, but not always easy.  I get palpitations and know it is the anxiety but don't know how to deal with it.  I have read that many people do have tests on their heart which shows nothing is wrong.  I guess we all have to find a way to deal with our own anxiety.  In my case it is trying to not be alone and walk.  I am 73 years old, so probably different for me.