feel like i am loosing my mind

[andrewm88]

when im not anxious i am able to rationalize that when i am having my anxiety attacks they are just that..anxiety and all related things that happen to me during an attack are just anxeity related, however when im actually having an anxiety attack that all goes out the window, i try to talk myself down and rationalize that what im experiencing is just anxiety but my brain just wont let me believe it and as a result i am convinced i am going crazy or have crossed over into full blown psychosis and its scary! like i dont hear voices or have hallucinations but my mind makes me feel like i am or i should be...if you know what i mean?- kind of hard to explain, when im trying to talk myself down out of the anxiety my mind will make me think that my own voice is a voice im hearing in my head and im clearly psychotic, now that im looking at it in a non anxious state i can see how ridiculous that sounds but when its actually happening it scares me to death and just perpetuates the anxiety! I AM SO FEDUP OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! can anyone mildly relate or am i actually going crazy!? :S

[Paxiled]

What you've done is just defined what an anxiety attack is.  Unfortunately or fortunately, you're not going crazy; this is what anxiety attacks do.  Hopefully you'll learn in therapy how to stop thinking anxiety attacks up.  In the meantime, welcome to the crowd!

[mandapanda928]

You are not going crazy ! I go through this all the time ! is it always like "what if" or "what if i do this" or "what if this happens" . How long ago did you start feeling like that? Cause mine started when i first started having really bad anxiety , Almost like you can't shut your head up ? That's what i felt like, i felt like I'd rather do anything then have to think, but i would just keep thinking and feeling like i was in my head.  It ***** , it's awful, but either that stage passes or you start learning your own way of how to deal with it. Hey and whats so wrong with being crazy....  right, some of the craziest people are the smartest , that's what i tell myself when i feel crazy !! ha ha :] . But you are def not crazy it's anxiety. Try not to think to much of it even though it's really hard . You are probably a really smart deep and artistic person and us smart people deal with anxiety the most. It's the truth !!!!! ;]

[whitecat78]

This happens to me a lot, I always feel like I am getting psychotic depression. I constantly have these uncomfortable sensations like I cant stand being inside myself. I got this very interesting book called Buddha's Brain. It talks about the neuroscience of happiness, love and wisdom. It says when your mind changes, your brain changes and every thought you have actually leaves new marks on your brain slowly changing it, kind of like how a flowing stream erodes rocks over time. So you can choose to have positive or negative thoughts. The more you focus on the anxiety the more likely you will have chronic anxiety problems. This book has helped me to understand my depression and anxiety and it also got very high reviews on Amazon.

[DJ873]

i can soooo relate. I am getting better at knowing thought can't hurt me, to not fight, and let them be while i refocus my awareness. It took my therapist about a year to convince me i wasn't crazy, so if this isn't crazy what is it?? Now that i know that i am not, that it is a trick of the mind and crazy people don't know they are crazy, it is where to go from here. it really does work to ground in the now and the key is to not fight the thoughts. I do just like my painting that is my profile pic. Imagine myself in the sun, now, presence, and the random crazy crap the clouds. I draw it out and name them whatever the junk of the moment is. But first step, this is a trick of the mind and you are not crazy, please get the book Taming Your Gremlin. It creates a whole different understanding. Another thing that helped is my healthy self writing to my disturbed self. I keep it and read it when i feel distress reminding myself of where my head is when i feel good and how i got there.
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