Anxiety

[Wacko_18]

I'm 18 and already suffering from severe anxiety, hypochondria, and depression. Honestly the worst of them all would be the hypochondria and anxiety. I've found that I'm such a cry baby lately and that I feel like nothing will ever get better. My zoloft and klonopin are not working and I realize medication isn't for everyone but I don't think I can try anymore. Most of the fears I have are completely irrational and I kno it but when I'm having an attack I can't rationalize any of my thoughts. I would like to kno if therapy really does work because I'm the biggest pessimist and negative person you'd ever meet. I feel like the therapy is going to be a waste of time and my parents money. Mh main concern is school and trying to get over this before it starts because I'm an honor student striving for scholarships and don't want my anxiety getting in the way. How are some ways that I can calm myself down when feeling and attack because so far I can't do it. The only thing I manage to do is curl up and cry for hours until I fall I asleep. The cryin fits get so bad that I sweat and take atleast 3 showers daily. (OCD) I will stay like that crying and shaking and sweating until miraculously it stops. I need to kno that this is bearable and I'm not going mentally insane because I don't feel like I'm me anymore and I'm afraid it will start to affect my relationships with family, friends, and my boyfriend. I try to lessen stress but with OCD and being a perfectionist it's sort of hard and seems impossible...

[cassie263]

I haven't started the medication yet but that medication did not work for me in fact it made me more depressed luvox and respidol is now working for me and i'm going to start CBT and I hope it will work there's a great book out there called Stop Obsessing how to overcome your obsessions and compulsions by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson but respidol works even better for people with rituals. Look it up it's even being used for people who have OCD especially people who have rituals.

[cassie263]

The thing I can assure you is that you are not insane or going it one of the symptoms of anxiety however is the fear of being insane and thinking you will lose control. If you think you are going insane you most likely aren't. I've been and still am going through the feelings like I'm not me anymore but the thing is medicine and therapy will help you the feelings you have of not being yourself are called depersonalization which means basically is a state in which one's thoughts and feelings seem unreal or not to belong to oneself, or in which one loses all sense of identity. The therapy will help you from doing the OCD habits but if for whatever reason you are able to do that if you go into google and type either relaxation techniques to get rid of anxiety or getting rid of anxiety naturally you may find some things. Some great sites are

http://www.myrelaxationtechniquesforanxiety.com/
http://helpguide.org/mental/stress_relief_meditation_yoga_relaxation.htm
http://relaxationtechniquesforanxiety.net/

Don't do hypnotherapy however because it's crud and it won't help it's bull and doesn't really exist.