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I need help please!
Hello,i was wandering if u can help me? =)
Im a 28yr old male. when i was 21 i started feeling depressed/anxious beacuse i was loosing my hair. all my life some people have put me down beacuse of the way i looked,then when i started to lose my hair people started to make more comments. even though i had my fair share of girlfriends/partners,always had a great network of friends,good social life etc, i started to get real paranoid and self concious with the way i looked and have panick attacks in social situations just waiting for someone to say somthing bad about my appearance and put me down,also be paranoid people where staring at me making me genraly uncomftable in public,also fearing having more panick attacks. i stopped going out with friends at nights and weekends and just concentrated on my work and battled through the anxiety/panick attacks etc. then when i was 23 i lost my job due to jobcuts. then i didnt go out at all felt very depressed at times,sometimes felt like crying and not realy know why,sometimes had trouble talking. i then became either what i think is Agraphobic or have bad Social Anxiety beacuse i havnt realy been out in the last 5 yrs now. im not affraid to go out im not affraid of the open spaces its just im so paranoid about my appearance and dread people making fun of me again that i dont go anywhere at all. my appearance is on my mind alot and i get depressed from time to time and am also constantly tired. ive always remained very in touch with reality and am pretty smart ( i have an IQ of 138) but what realy scares me is at the end of 2006 i woke up oneday and felt i could hear my name being whisperd wich obviously made me paranoid and very scared, thinking i was going totaly crazy. i know it wasnt real and it was all in my mind and me just being paranoid. it lasted about a week then went away. but ever since then ive been so scared it would come back. sometimes i just get so tired,confused,a little absent minded exspecialy when my sleep patterns mess up, i feel like im going to go totaly crazy and im frightend im going to go totaly crazy. i just dont go anywhere beacuse my appearance depresses me, when in social situations my brain 9 times out of 10 just gets paranoid,panicks and tells me to escape the social situation through fear of being persacueted. i can feel totaly normal for long periods at a time and feel ok when on my own doing my thing. i try to stay active and i do alot of weight training/bodybuilding and although i never realy get dressed much im always very clean and have fresh clothes etc,ive not totaly let myself go! lol
i havnt spoke to my GP although i have realy wanted to for years now,and as each year passes its getting closer an closer for me to make that dreaded terrifying call to my GP to ask for help! eeek! lol =s
so could u shed any light on what is actualy wrong with me please? thank u for ure help. =)
Im a 28yr old male. when i was 21 i started feeling depressed/anxious beacuse i was loosing my hair. all my life some people have put me down beacuse of the way i looked,then when i started to lose my hair people started to make more comments. even though i had my fair share of girlfriends/partners,always had a great network of friends,good social life etc, i started to get real paranoid and self concious with the way i looked and have panick attacks in social situations just waiting for someone to say somthing bad about my appearance and put me down,also be paranoid people where staring at me making me genraly uncomftable in public,also fearing having more panick attacks. i stopped going out with friends at nights and weekends and just concentrated on my work and battled through the anxiety/panick attacks etc. then when i was 23 i lost my job due to jobcuts. then i didnt go out at all felt very depressed at times,sometimes felt like crying and not realy know why,sometimes had trouble talking. i then became either what i think is Agraphobic or have bad Social Anxiety beacuse i havnt realy been out in the last 5 yrs now. im not affraid to go out im not affraid of the open spaces its just im so paranoid about my appearance and dread people making fun of me again that i dont go anywhere at all. my appearance is on my mind alot and i get depressed from time to time and am also constantly tired. ive always remained very in touch with reality and am pretty smart ( i have an IQ of 138) but what realy scares me is at the end of 2006 i woke up oneday and felt i could hear my name being whisperd wich obviously made me paranoid and very scared, thinking i was going totaly crazy. i know it wasnt real and it was all in my mind and me just being paranoid. it lasted about a week then went away. but ever since then ive been so scared it would come back. sometimes i just get so tired,confused,a little absent minded exspecialy when my sleep patterns mess up, i feel like im going to go totaly crazy and im frightend im going to go totaly crazy. i just dont go anywhere beacuse my appearance depresses me, when in social situations my brain 9 times out of 10 just gets paranoid,panicks and tells me to escape the social situation through fear of being persacueted. i can feel totaly normal for long periods at a time and feel ok when on my own doing my thing. i try to stay active and i do alot of weight training/bodybuilding and although i never realy get dressed much im always very clean and have fresh clothes etc,ive not totaly let myself go! lol
i havnt spoke to my GP although i have realy wanted to for years now,and as each year passes its getting closer an closer for me to make that dreaded terrifying call to my GP to ask for help! eeek! lol =s
so could u shed any light on what is actualy wrong with me please? thank u for ure help. =)
Hi,
no i dont realy obsess with my anxiety/depression, just kind of live with it and deal with it when it comes and try battle through till it goes.
sometimes feel light headed,dizzy but thats about it. my heart sometimes races and i pannick infront of certain people sometimes.
mainly when i get my sleep patterns mixed up and try to get them back to normal, that means losing sleep like staying awake for a whole night and day so i go to bed at a normal time the next night and start sleeping normal times. that "sometimes" tends to make me feel bad like im going to go crazy and makes me feel absent minded and paranoid.
Its been a good 9 months since it happend last ( the going crazy paranoid thoughts) ive had 9 months of being "pretty" content. it seems the gaps of being ok and feeling crazy are getting further and further apart wich is a good thing. today i feel a bit better after a sleep,so hopefully tommorow ill feel even better and it will go away for another 9 months or even longer! =)
no i dont realy obsess with my anxiety/depression, just kind of live with it and deal with it when it comes and try battle through till it goes.
sometimes feel light headed,dizzy but thats about it. my heart sometimes races and i pannick infront of certain people sometimes.
mainly when i get my sleep patterns mixed up and try to get them back to normal, that means losing sleep like staying awake for a whole night and day so i go to bed at a normal time the next night and start sleeping normal times. that "sometimes" tends to make me feel bad like im going to go crazy and makes me feel absent minded and paranoid.
Its been a good 9 months since it happend last ( the going crazy paranoid thoughts) ive had 9 months of being "pretty" content. it seems the gaps of being ok and feeling crazy are getting further and further apart wich is a good thing. today i feel a bit better after a sleep,so hopefully tommorow ill feel even better and it will go away for another 9 months or even longer! =)
In general you always wanna talk to your Doc to maybe get some help,
but from what i read it looks like you have GAD "general anxiety disorder"
having a constant fear or anxiety that your going to have a panic attack is one of the main symptoms.
there are alot of medicines to help with this, and also CBT talk therapy all that good stuff.
Do you also obsess about your problems with anxiety/ depression? look up symptoms, I see your probably loosing sleep, feel any other physical symptoms. lightheaded, blurred vision, aches, pains, clench your teeth, numbness, dizziness, etc?
but from what i read it looks like you have GAD "general anxiety disorder"
having a constant fear or anxiety that your going to have a panic attack is one of the main symptoms.
there are alot of medicines to help with this, and also CBT talk therapy all that good stuff.
Do you also obsess about your problems with anxiety/ depression? look up symptoms, I see your probably loosing sleep, feel any other physical symptoms. lightheaded, blurred vision, aches, pains, clench your teeth, numbness, dizziness, etc?
You state you have had a lot going on for YEARS. call your dr. get some advise, first step. best of luck.
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