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Used to have anxiety...Problems are persisting again

Used to have anxiety...Problems are persisting again

So this is going to be a pretty broad explanation so bear with me. Several years ago I was diagnosed with panic and anxiety disorder. I opted not to take medication, and I had a pretty long fight trying to get over it. My anxiety was risen at random most of the time, but especially when I drank alcohol in excess and when I thought something was going to happen (usually when I thought I would be in pain or inebriated). So I slowly fought myself to get over my anxiety. This was during parts of my Junior and Senior year of high school.

I've been at college now for over a year, and I am currently a sophomore. Lately, I find that I am getting very easily worked up over nothing. Several of my close friends smoke weed, and they don't try to push it on me, but they constantly remind me that if I want to smoke, I can. I choose not to because when I was 16, I tried inhaling nitrous, had a very bad experience, and since then I have not felt completely right with how I handle things. I have a fear of going blind, and I also have a fear of being in a different mindset from any kind of substance. I don't drink much, but when I do if I have too much and I start feeling dizzy or off balance, I have an anxiety attack in which time goes extremely slowly. Through that fear of being stuck in a moment that I don't want to be in, I think of all of these random scenarios in my head of stuff that might happen. Basically, I work myself up over things that may happen in the future that would cause me pain or discomfort. My friends roommate made cookies the other day, and after eating one, I thought to myself "what if she baked weed into those brownies?" Even after I asked her the ingredients (in which weed was not one of them) I couldn't stop thinking to myself "what if there was actually weed in those brownies and what if I get extremely inebriated from eating this?"

Later on the night that this happened, I was getting very dizzy when I closed my eyes while laying down, and when I fell asleep, I would wake up 2 minutes later very disoriented. I was also urinating very frequently, when I didn't drink a lot (non alcoholic beverages). I was also getting the chills and hot flashes off and on, and I ended up going to the ER in which they took an EKG, a chest X-ray, blood work, and gave me IV fluids. All of the tests came back normal and they told me that it could have been my anxiety that caused all of this. Now, any pain that I have I think to myself "what if something serious is going on inside my body that nobody knows about that could hurt me?" I have been having pains in my stomach all day, but I'm not sure if it is because my lower abs are sore (I did a leg lift for 15 seconds last night while sitting on my bed), or because there is something actually wrong. Now when I just used the restroom, my stool was a mix between green and yellow, and it was very loose and fluffy. There looked to be a yellow stringy substance all over the stool, and when I flushed it, it was very cloudy. I have minor allergies, but I wake up every morning with excess mucus in my throat, nose, and sinus pressure in my forehead, nose, gums, and sometimes my ears.

I also tend to show symptom for dissociative disorder.
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Hello , my name is Angela and i Live in Portland, Or. I can tell from experince that tummy pain can be emtional. I used to get myself
so worked up, that i thought for sure i was dying, right there and then!
I can relate it's VERY SCARY.... A huge part of it is simply learning
how to manage your stress. it's very comman for folks to have backaches, headaches, or tummy aches as a direct response in what
your feeling and going thourgh. I urge you to be honest with yourself
and learn and then pratice stress mangement methods. even consider
theraphy. it works wonders !! ;) I know you don't  know want to hear this,
BUT Drugs like PROZAC can be a REALLY WONDERFULL THING.
and just because you take it, does NOT mean you are crazy. I strongly
encouarge you to revisit this option. it sounds to me like it really help
you! I was having up to 10 anitxy attacks per day and that really, really,
sucked. so please consider MEDS. let me know. hope your're having
a peacefull and mellow day. Good luck with everything. Angela
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