i would like some advice on functioning with this fear. i have anxiety in every part of my life, but this phobia has been very harmful to me.

i have an extreme fear of dying. it’s constantly in the back of my mind that someday, i will die. im often unable to sleep because of it, as closing my eyes will remind me too much of being dead. i can’t listen to any conversations about death— one example is in highschool, my classmate did a presentation on burial procedures, and i had to leave to go throw up. my reactions to triggers vary in intensity, but it’s been going on for so long that i don’t know how to deal with it. im in a constant state of sadness from it at this point.

thank you for reading. any advice on minimizing my fear, or just coping with death, would be greatly appreciated. i’ve gone to therapy in the past, but it always just makes me worry more.

I’ve suffered from generalized anxiety my entire life. I was first medicated with Paxil when I was 5. I think I was in denial about how bad my anxiety was for a long time since it was baseline for me. I started exploring medication a few years ago. I tried Zoloft which was horrible with side effects I had to immediately switch to Lexapro which I was on for about two years. I never felt it did much for my anxiety, but I had notable uncomfortable side effects that made me eventually come off of it. Dry mouth, night sweats, stomach issues.

I have had Xanax a few times, maybe 5 or 6 total and my gosh does it work. It’s so defeating that it’s an as needed type of drug and I’m worried about taking it too often.

I feel like I toy around with the idea of meds whenever my anxiety hits a peak which it has recently hit it just feels like the daily meds don’t do anything but cause negative side effects and I don’t want to deal with that for nothing.

You see testimonials online where people feel like medication totally changed their life and I want that feeling so badly and I just feel defeated like that won’t ever happen for me.

Idk what I’m looking for, maybe encouragement if you found a med that really did feel like it improved your daily quality of life?

My stomach doesn't really hurt, but I can feel that something inside is relaxing or letting go. It makes gurgling sounds and I pass gas. I feel like I'm dying because of this sensation of my stomach relaxing, from morning to night. The more it relaxes, the more I feel like my whole body is expanding and staying that way, as if everything inside me is opening up and can't go back to normal. It's extremely difficult to explain, but this sensation makes me feel physically very unwell all the time. Because I feel so expanded and relaxed inside, I pass gas.

without being anxious in my head i cant go out or watch tv ???

Hi, I need some advice for what to do.

I'm experiencing multiple panic attacks every day, and it's affecting my ability to perform basic self care. I feel extraordinarily depressed, and I cannot find any relief.

Therapy and psychiatry are proving ineffective, and I'm in a state of severe suffering. Do I need to seek inpatient care? I have no history of substance abuse, nor any problematic behavior towards others.

What resource am I supposed to seek out right now?

like i'll spend weeks working through being anxious about one specific thing, finally feel like i've got a handle on it, and then my brain just decides "cool, new fear unlocked" and i'm back to square one. it's honestly exhausting. curious if this happens to other people or if my anxiety is just built different.

Hey, I'm conducting a survey on the relationship between anxiety disorders and academic performance among adolescents. As someone who used to struggled with an anxiety disorder a lot, I want to explore this topic to better understand others' experience. This is for a research project for my issues in human growth course. It's an anonymous form and no emails are collected, skip any questions u dont feel comfortable answering. I'd appreciate it so much if u took a few mins to fill out this form, thanks! :)

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About a week ago now I greened out on weed and had an episode where I thought I died and was convinced for a couple hours after that I was dead. After calming down I went to sleep then woke up, the next 2 days I experienced derealization. Then this cleared up, but now over the last 3 days I’ve struggled where whenever I’m on my own or not actively focusing on something, if I get a thought about anxiety, my heart rate increases and I start trembling and get more anxious progressively. Does this mean I could have developed anxiety and could this solve on its own because I’ve progressively got better from others issues.

I need suggestions because I don’t know how to explain what I’m experiencing. I get anxiety hits and attacks over basic triggers. For example, my roommate putting up a new bill, people messaging me about conflicts between them, or not being able to find someone to take over the house. The last one triggered a full-blown anxiety attack. I felt nauseous, had that sinking feeling in my stomach, started feeling cold, and had difficulty breathing. It took me almost an hour to recover. The smaller episodes usually last around five minutes, sometimes with overlapping symptoms.

I hate experiencing this. I don’t like how much certain situations affect me. Anxiety stemming from household issues and conflict is understandable, but sometimes it happens over other things, and that’s what frustrates me. It makes me feel stunted, like I’m someone who can’t handle things that other people seem to manage normally.

I don’t want to keep feeling this way. I want to understand why I react so intensely to certain triggers and what I can do to stop letting anxiety affect me like this.Therapy hasn't really helped! Most of the ones I met always end up telling me to meditate go for walks... etc even though I have told it doesn't help! It gives me space to overthink even more than I was!

Today I saw my mom move a Dcon block of rat poison with her bare hands and afterwards she just ran her hands under some water but didn't use any soap and that really concerns me, also i'm pretty sure i've seen her do the same thing when handling raw meat in the past so that's naturally made my OCD flare up and wash my hands more. It's weird cause my mom is normally pretty good about other stuff, but she's weirdly casual about this sort of thing. I know the active in ingredient in Dcon is far more toxic to animals then humans, but i'd still rather not accidentally ingest trace amounts of the stuff if I can help it. Wish there was a way to get my mom to use soap in the kitchen more without her potentially freaking out on me for suggesting it.

So basically we had our mid terms and i fucked up my math paper. Now I am probably getting my paper next week and I am just scared. I know it is just mid term and it doesn't matter but i still feel insane anxiety, like i can't stop thinking about it and i just have so much anxiety cuz of it. It would be really helpful to get some advice from people who know how to deal with this or have felt the same before

Hi, im 21F from the UK. I've always suffered from intense social axiety, meeting new people sends my head spiralling, when im in social situations im too in my head to do anything. I recently started university and this has made me struggle a lot socially. This has been the case from since i started school at 3, but ive always been too scared to go to the doctors because i dont know if they take social anxiety seriously, ive rang up but always got too nervous when it came to the appointment.

I was wondering (maybe anyone from UK could help) what to say to the doctors for them to take me seriously ? Ive recently been suffering physical symptoms like stomach cramps due to this and im just really scared that they wont take something like this serious but i really wanna get this sorted because im sick of my life being controlled like this. Any advice would be appreciated

For the past two months, I’ve had the constant feeling that I can’t take a deep enough breath and that I’m lacking oxygen in my lungs. It’s like this literally 24/7.

It’s worst at night, because even if I somehow manage to fall asleep, I still wake up around 3 a.m. every single night with a racing heart, gasping for air for hours :((

I’ve been to the emergency room four times and hospitalized twice. I’ve had an MRI of my head, a CT scan of my lungs with contrast, a lung scintigraphy, X-rays, echocardiogram, Holter monitor and even a gastroscopy.

Doctors say that I am propably physically healthy.

The only thing they determined is that I miiiight have mild asthma, and they gave me inhalers, which don’t seem to be helping much so far.

Besides that, my iron level is 24 and my ferritin is 8. But other than that, nothing else shows up in the tests.

I’m starting to wonder if this might just be hyperventilation syndrome... Although I make a constant effort to breathe through my nose and use my diaphragm, I still don’t feel any relief. I experience air hunger all day and all night :((

Sometimes I feel so starved for oxygen (or perhaps I’m just breathing incorrectly..?) that my entire face starts to tingle, my fingers contort, and I lose all feeling in my legs for like 10-15 minutes..

Has anyone ever experienced a similar problem, and if so, how did you get past it? What helped you?

I would be truly grateful for any advice or answers :c

Take care of yourself, guys <3

i'm randomly gripped with anxiety, particularly when i think about how isolated i am. i don't have any meaningful relationships, literally zero, and sometimes when i remember that i think i might collapse. i usually end up scrolling instagram because the digital numbing of reels stops my spiral. i also occasionally wake up frightened, especially when i think of the vast nothingness that is my life. i think it's because humans simply aren't meant to be so alone, i'm going against my evolutionary programming. does this happen to you?

I(28F) have been feeling this constant pit in my chest/stomach for the past 3 years. it got really bad out of no where, i was afraid to do things that could potentially cause hard, i still am to this day thinking of all the possible things that could go wrong. i always feel like someone is mad at me/out to get me. i started a new, more stressful job last week and since then I haven't eaten, slept, or been able to breathe. all these new responsibilities are eating me alive. i feel weak and tired 24/7 but food does not sound appetizing. i try to eat and i puke. i hate this feeling of impending doom all the time i feel insane. im not sure where to go or who to talk to but i need something.

How can i stop feeling like something bad is going to happen. i physically shake and stutter and my stomach is starving for food but whenever i try i spit it out or throw it up. i cry all the time and sometimes i cant even explain why. i hate this i dont want to be this way but i dont know where this all started and how to start helping myself. The breathing tricks dont seem to work, ive tried meditation and yoga and nothing.

Hi everyone!

Trying to be short, so I don't bore you guys to death with my problems :)

8 years ago I was diagnosed with IBS, after doing all the screening for other diseases. Since then I have had some good years and some bad years, but it's a common thought sometimes that "sometimes maybe the doctors didn't see everything and I might have something worse inside me" - well I managed to live with that most of this until this year. However I do also suffer from hypothyroidism, for the ones that are familiar with it when it's off track, ir can mimic symptoms of depression, anxiety etc. Because of my metabolism I take a very high dosage of levothyroxine, and this year the medication that I have been doing for the past 4 year got messed up, the dosage started getting too high and started having heart palpitations and insomnia. Fast forward, in the past 4 months ended in the hospital 2 times with panick attacks that I thought I was having a heart attack, but basically my t4 levels were just too high.

This started giving me crazy ass anxiety and while my endocrinologist isn't able to sort out the correct dosage for me, I was recommended to go see GP to see if he could help with the anxiety.

When I got there, she prescribed me a 3 week cycle of mexazolam (benzodiazepine) within a small dosage, and wanted me to start Sertraline at the same time. I said okay, however I wasn't familiar with Sertraline neither the class of those medications. And I just decided not to take it after I got home and do some research on it. The sexual dysfunction side effect is too common , and just not going to take that risk. My anxiety is mostly provoked by physical symptoms that I feel due to my IBS that is functional or now from my thyroid while it is dysregulated.

However I do believe I could benefit from something to help me out break this cycle of constant hyper vigilantness of my body.

Do you guys could help me out in how to approach the doctor on alternatives. I'm going to be very honest the Mexazolam even in small dosages was awesome, first week I slept like a baby, haven't slept like that in years. However in 2nd week it doesn't do much miracles. It does help with the palpitations if I feel them, and the palpitations are a major trigger for the anxiety so something that could reduce that sedates me while I'm on that peak isn't that bad to be honest. I was going to ask her I could stick with it just as SOS pill. Or if she could prescribe something less addictive.

I'm lost. But I just don't want to go there and get another prescription of something I don't think it is what I need, less want to deal with sexual dysfunction side effects.