Forum Anxiety :-) ????

[be still my beating heart 13]

I visit this site as often as I can to try and offer support for anyone I can relate to, and I helps me to hear of other peoples symptoms as I find it reassures me that what I feel EVERYDAY really is just anxiety.  It's my reality check so to speak.  But I've noticed I seem to be MORE anxious after I log off than I was when I started.  At first I thought that it was because I was reading about symtpoms and then began to experience them (speak of the devil and he appears, right??), but I now feel it's more of a social anxiety that I am experiencing.  I think that I am worrying about how my advice is being taken, if it really will help the person I am responding to, and how others will take what I am saying as well.  Has anyone else experienced this too??  I hope you all felt well today!

Cori

[be still my beating heart 13]

Thank you all for assuring me that I'm not the only one "anxious" while on the anxiety forum!  I am anxious all day, why not add to it a little bit for the benefit of others and myself, right!  I hope you all felt well today!

Cori

[trouble10]

I am soooo glad you said that. Now I don't feel so silly. I do the same thing whether it's out in public or just online, although, I'm better able to handle this because I don't have to face anybody and everybody is so understanding. I've never seen anybody be cruel even to somebody else. Thanks to everybody for that!!! You're a God send!! Love...

[tostressed]

I always get a little nervous offering advice to people and answering questions. You wonder did I say the right thing. Just remember that it is advice. I have been helped by a lot of people. Some advice I took others I was jus very appreciative of them caring enough to type down some advice. We are a support system for each other.

[OneScaredBuckeye]

I think it's a combination of the two.  It kind of affects me, too, a little.

[ativan]

I think you like me you try to help others then worry about if you did and said the right things, dont worry I think this is a great site for us that suffer anxiety because we can see by reading how others suffer and that were not alone I have found it a great help and I only found the site a couple of weeks ago, take care.
janis.

[notxub]

Wow....you have a long name
I agree completly, I know just what you mean.