Hello,
I am a 16 year old female who had a life once, but unfortunately in the past 6 months my life has been torn from me because of serious and exstreme anxiety disorder. There have been a lot of traumatic events in my past and even now during my present life which may have cause my aniexty issues. I have severe panic attacks that are attracted from stress, yelling, arguing, nervous and akward situations, regection, etc. My panic attacks are not what you would call "normal" because they cause real exstreme pain throughout my body (mostly in my head, back, and neck). They last up to several hours of pure hysteria of me yelling, screaming, and crying from the pain and suffering. By the time the attack is over I barely can remember what had started it, or worse, I can't even remember where or who I am because of the exhaustion that occurs after. I have been to ER three times due to these attacks. The first time they just gave me something to calm me down and didn't admit me, and it didn't help because the next day my pain was worse. The second time they admitted me to the Phychiatric Wing for 10 days because they had no idea else where to put me, it was not a pleasent exsperience. The Third Time I had schedualed an appointment for my back pains and got admitted to the hospital for 5 days. In that time they took an MRI (there was nothing wrong with my brain), and also a doctor who was top of the neurological department came to see me, he determined that there was nothing wrong with my brain, by that I mean no tumors, etc. These attacks only seem to occur now during stressful situations even of the slightest, and the pain is to the maximum. Somehow my brain is contracting real physical pain when I start to have an attack or even feel the slightest bit stressed. I also feel very tired, very hot (almost sweating), depressed, fatigued, etc. My therapist does not know for sure what I have, but her greatest guess is I have some kind of Exstreme Conversion Aniexty disorder. I am a smart girl, and I plan to have a life with friends and a very bright future ahead of me. Right now the only thing I can do is try to contol my emotions and take medicine to help, but even that doesn't help me much. If you have an opinion about what might be wrong with me please respond to my question.....
Yours in need,
Ginger