My anxiety is only triggered by work, ruminate on not being good enough, not knowing what I am doing, progression, all of it. I feel like I’m not an expert in anything. I sometimes wonder if I was stacking shelves would I be happier.
I’ve noticed something strange, some days I feel mentally drained even though I haven’t done anything physically demanding. Scrolling, switching between apps, or just overthinking seems to tire my brain.
Has anyone else experienced this? What strategies do you use to give your mind a proper rest without just doing nothing all day?
as bad as it sounds the harder i try, the more i feel like giving up. i was isolating myself in my house for years since i was 14 in around 2020 or so and left school. i won’t go into detail but i went to many therapists and nothing helped. for the past week, i’ve been trying harder by going for walks and trying to be more productive and healthy so i can go out again and live. but i keep feeling horrible. i feel dizzy and i feel like nothing is real, i keep having strange dreams and struggle to sleep now? maybe i’m meant to just die in my house alone and miserable
For the last 3 days I’ve been in a near constant state of anxiety. I am extremely on edge, have slept like 5 hours total in 3 nights, I pretty much have to be doing something constantly to keep my brain distracted or I spiral into a panic attack. I feel so uncomfortable and have been horrible symptoms because my anxiety manifests very physically. I have tried taking sleeping meds and Benadryl to calm myself down and try to get some sleep but it hasn’t helped. I’ve been to the ER before for panic attacks that I thought was a medical emergency but I’m not having a panic attack right now so idk if it’s appropriate to go. I just don’t know what to do. It’s 3am right now I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours on very little sleep for days. I feel delirious but I cannot sleep or calm my nervous system down :( What should I do
Hi. I have a tooth abscess. The zit looking thing popped up on my gumline near my infected tooth on Saturday and I went to an emergency dentist the same day who confirmed it was an abscess and said they don’t do retreats there (have already had a root canal) but could pull it then and there. Decided to wait till Monday (tomorrow) to get seen by an endodontist I trust more but I’m fully prepared to get the tooth pulled.
What I’m nervous about is I have bad bad health OCD and I’m horrified that my infection has spread throughout my body and will kill me. I was on another Reddit thread where people were talking about their friends / coworkers dying from dental infections.
Long story is I got a root canal on it in like 2011 (I was a kid) and had the crown replaced in October and in late January I got a horrible fever, tooth pain, and facial swelling. Went to dentist got antibiotics and they told me to come back if it didn’t go away / came back. Feb I got another high fever and went back to the dentist bc I feared it was related but since no swelling they said come back if swells again. Now it’s early April and I have the zit thing and abscess.
I don’t care about tooth pain or expenses I just want to know that it’s not gonna spread and kill me, or how to ensure of that or prevent that.
Btw those 2 fevers I got were BAD - 103, couldn’t bring down. Went to urgent care once and emergency room once. When I went to ER they tested my blood and white blood cell count was normal.
Please help😭
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise this was an actual thing. I'd sit down to eat dinner and be completely present in body — but still running a loop of "did I handle that email wrong?" or "I should've said X in that standup."
I looked it up and apparently there's a name for it: the Cognitive Switching Penalty. Basically, when we don't have some kind of clear "end of work" signal, the brain stays in high-alert mode. It keeps treating unresolved problems as open threats. That's why you're irritable with the people around you even when nothing is actually wrong — your nervous system still thinks you're in crisis mode.
A few things that have actually helped me:
Curious if anyone else struggles with this — and what's worked for you? The "always on" thing feels like it's getting worse, not better.
I’m 21 male went through a tough puberty where i’ve got fucked by every possible side effects of DHT. I spent my last 2 years essentially building up my appearance and self esteem from the bottom to being above average. My social life except friends haven’t been too deep.
Anyways only recently realised that i managed to develop pretty insane overthinking and anxiety with romantic sitiuations. I’ve been open to pharmacology ever since accutane so got myself prescribed propranolol in like half a day after deciding and it works like magic. I can talk and act without looking retarded and it’s not even neuro toxic like pregab would have been. Pretty happy about that a this small push giving a this huge boost i wish I knew about this sooner aswell
My anxiety is only triggered by work, ruminate on not being good enough, not knowing what I am doing, progression, all of it. I feel like I’m not an expert in anything. I sometimes wonder if I was stacking shelves would I be happier.
I had a lot of themes of health anxiety like MS, but now that i dont fall for physical diseases last 2 years its attacking me with psychological diseases like:
-depression
-Most of the time: mental incapability due to anxiety
-adhd
I started to stop doing things in my life i typically did because i think i dont have the capabilities to do them anymore. For example:
-Hanging with friends
-Going to the gym
-Working
What can i do? I do de typical: not googling and trying to not stay at home isolated and not doing anything, but doesnt seem to work. I stop googling but come back as i dont see results.
My days are sad, depressing and isolated. What can I do?
It's sucks when i'm chilling watching on my phone i keep changing positions, one hour i am lying down on my bed and another hour i'm crouching, i can't maintain one position and my breath got short, why is this happens?
Hi all!
I have been on Lexapro for about 3 years and rarely had a panic/anxiety attack. While on Zoloft, the only time I would have any attacks were panic attacks at night while I was in bed.
Now on Lexapro, I would barely have evening panic attacks and only have a daytime anxiety/panic attack every 6 months to a year.
More recently, they have become extremely frequent. About 3 weeks ago, I had one suddenly during the day. It took me a few days to completely recover. Since then, it has increased - to the point where I had one on Saturday and I had another one this morning that I am currently recovering from.
I have come to the non-medical conclusion that my anxiety pattern has changed and I am not sure what to do about it. I have NEVER had to "work around" my anxiety before as it has always been at nighttime.
Even more annoying, this anxiety is all related to my health and constant fear that something is medically wrong with me.
I have an appointment with my new PCP on May 6th, and I am not sure how I am going to make it to that appointment without falling apart mentally. On top of this, the idea of going to the doctor's office literally makes my heartrate skyrocket because all of this anxiety I think is rooted in my health.
I guess I just always thought that my anxiety wouldn't affect me during the day, yet here I am, recovering from an anxiety attack at work. Has your anxiety pattern ever changed before? Does this sound normal?
Please give me your tricks when you get one of these really bad episodes that is usually triggered by something happened in your body, I had a very mild short ache in my left shoulder that only lasted for minutes, but it triggered my anxiety so bad, I have been suffering for hours, I even get my heart rate, blood pressure, ECG checked at home and everything turned out fine but I am still having panic episodes on and off
I have had a whole lot of different physical pain in the last two years that no one can understand. Went through many many tests with everything coming up negative. Although this is good, I can’t help but to feel like I am losing it. My main symptoms are nerve like back pain, chest pain, neck pain, headaches. My symptoms tend to move around. I also get a very knotted up stomach feeling. I have been to many many specialists, hospitals.. etc. I just want to see if I’m alone or not. Thank you
Long story short, I was once a really confident guy in our university. Loved fitness, inspired lots of people, and a nursing student even. I’ve never had any diseases physical/mental hospitalizations except for a mild asthma in my youth.
My gym strength training routines are very high volume, as much as 3-4x full body programs and very high caffeine (5-7 small sachets). One weekend I started feeling chest awareness and like my body was tuning in more to my torso (introception)
And then Tuesday came, I had my first genuine panic attack in my life. Tachycardia, shortness of breath, tremors.
Thankfully my dad, is a family physician MD. He’s had (almost) 20+ years of clinical experience. And he’s put me through all the BASIC tests. I’ve revealed NORMAL Labs, Urine, Blood, Thyroid, ECG, Chest X-ray, vitals and physical assessment/auscultations.
My dad diagnosed me simply with Caffeine Withdrawal and mild Bronchitis
I took antibiotics and proper course. And stopped my gym and caffeine entirely. Limiting my workouts to just 10k steps a day.
But as a medical student under nursing, my “what-if” brain starts to link all the diseases I study with my own condition. This I think developed my health anxiety. I’d think that it’s cardio, neuro, or cancer or whatever!
It’s been 41 days ever since my first panic, I haven’t had any panic attacks anymore but the physical sensation are incredibly convincing. I’ve felt just about every sensation possible as well. Other days I’d feel perfectly fine and confident about myself, but then today I’d feel NAUSEA the whole day.
It sucks because before all this I felt practically on an awesome track of productivity. Maybe I did overdo my caffeine and workouts, and my body finally gave in.
I’m just asking for ASSURANCE. Because every time I’m in the moment of a physical sensation, my mind wanders off into thinking all the worst case catastrophizations. Which makes me doubt even my own father/doc, who keeps assuring me I’m normal. But I still keep asking what if something was medically missed? But simply my family can’t afford 2d ECHOs or CT scans and my dad really thinks they aren’t needed and just acknowledges I have anxiety.
I’ve done almost everything, same sleep times, electrolytes, VitD, Breathing techniques, VitB1-6-12s, DARE mental-exercises, warm showers and socialization. 10,000 steps.
Even my CONSCIOUS thought is alright, I’m practically not worrying consciously. But it seems to always be SUBCONSCIOUS or Physical anxiety symptom first before the worry.
It really feels like I’m losing a part of myself because of this.. at the same time I’m still standing I guess.
Pray for me guys. That this too shall pass. : (
I am not diagnosed with anything and don’t experience any anxiety otherwise. Just every morning I wake up cramps and stomach turning to while getting ready to goto work. It really makes me sick and I don’t think I have like serious issues but once I get in my car I’m fine. It’s getting ready waking up. I poop like 5x before 7 am. But once I get to work I’m chill. It doesn’t happen on the weekends, and I sleep in more. My job is not that insane I actually have it really fricken great no one is on my ass about anything and my manager really isn’t present and he’s chill too. I don’t fear of losing my job I don’t do presentations nothing that gets me out of my comfort zone at all. I’m very good when I get to work but I don’t know what this could be or how I can stop crapping so much before I leave the house. I also am like urgently awake an hour before my alarm I’ll wake up at 4 am while my alarm is at 5:30, I leave at 6:30 start at 7. What’s my issue? Can I take any natural supplement for this? 25 F
Also like I find it hard to do other things after work or even do things at night befusse work is what’s “happening” all week and I can’t even think about doing anything else. Wtf is wrong??
Like I’ll go home today and feel rushed to do everything I WANT to do becuase work is what’s on my mind and that’s more important somehow than literally taking a shower or shaving my legs or going to the nail salon. Like why can t I take care of myself I feel like I don’t have enough time. Even though I do, I work 7-3!
A bit ago work was insane and always hectic and I was struggling to stay alive, but since the new year it’s been very slow and chill. I don’t have much going on, I’m trying to look 10x busier than I am. Maybe it is the uncertainty and seeing this drastic change, but we had some restructure but even beofre that I was still the same had the same issues. You’d think this would go away since it’s slowed down.
Hello!
I came here because I am feeling very overwhelmed lately. I have depression CTPSD and anxiety from growing up and I am now 27 years old and I am married to a really supportive husband. I am someone who is very artistic in what most would call girly. I love being able to draw, do my makeup, watch movies, go to raves, listen to music and go on adventures. For a quick background growing up my dad was a narcissistic bipolar controlling parent. He was the type to make you feel like if you're laying down even for a second then you're wasting time. He did the other things like ripping apart my self esteem and putting me down but over the years I have tried very hard to build myself back up and I have even done a few sessions of Behavioral counseling so I can identify how I'm feeling what I needed to do but it's hard to actually find the best method on my own.
The last few months has become very overwhelming to the point that I feel like I'm gonna explode every day. I have a very fast paced, stressful job in service BDC. we are constantly making outbound calls and taking in calls and reaching out to people to schedule for service and answer questions like pricing and for parts. But we are constantly helping the advisors so having a slow day is never really slow, you always have to be busy, we always have daily numbers we have to meet. So when I get off work I am very mentally tired and some days it's very hard to get the energy to do my responsibilities. We go to plasma, go to the gym, make dinner, take care of our dog and other side work. But wheb I come home and I just feel like I don't have enough time to cook dinner and do any of the fun activities I actually want to do like make kandi (bracelets) for raves, draw, put together outfits, plan trips, etc.
My husband helps out as much as he can. He does a lot of the housework like the yard and just picking up when I don't have time. He wants to do anything he can to help me. But I still feel so overwhelmed all the time. for example, our AC was out and we were having to go back and forth between a hotel, home and work. I had no time to really take care of myself and have a proper hygiene like showering, making sure I felt put together in terms of my hair/makeup, clothes and just feeling ready for the day. But as soon as we got everything sorted out with the AC I had to come home, Unpack, and repack for a girls trip (just in a city 30 minutes away but at a resort) and I had hardly any time to pack for this and I ended up leaving later to meet the girls for check in and I just felt so overwhelmed. Now I'm back from the girl's trip and I have to unpack, unbraid my box braids (I have a lot of hair so it takes 3-4 hours) then I have find time to rebraid my hair in the next week or 2 before we go to Las Vegas. And there's just a list of stuff piling up in my head, like I know I have to deep clean the shower here soon, even though I just did it 2 weeks ago. I know I need to sweep and vacuum the bedroom even though I just did it a few days ago. We have a dog and with my hair and the dust it builds up quickly. Between doing house work, personal stuff, and work, I just feel like there's never enough time and even when I do have an hour or two to spare, I just don't have the energy to get myself to do it. This feels like a constant cycle and I don't know how to fix it. I know that it takes time and effort to make time for yourself so you can enjoy the things for yourself but how do I do that without feeling like I'm neglecting everything else?
Our roommate doesn't do anything besides work and spend time with his friends and go out. I get so jealous because we spend so much time on the yard, cleaning, organizing our stuff (we just went through clothes and shoes and donated a bunch for exampe) and he doesn't do anything. He does his required turn of yard work but it's like minimum effort, but then he has no other responsibilities. He will literally tell us he didn't do anything all day Saturday while we were doing a bunch of tasks. I have other friends who are like this as well, where they don't clean, they don't do anything else besides go to work and go do fun things and it just makes me so sad and feel like I'm missing out on so much, but then whenever I go to hang out with friends or invite people over, I'm always getting the job of hosting and setting everything up and they don't understand how tiring this is. For some reason no one else ever wants to host anymore or make the plans, we always have to do everything and I'm just so tired of it all.
Ive been dealing with this ever since I catch COVID twice on 2022. It’s much better now, but it still there someways.
Female, 5‘1, 70 kg, non smoker occasional drinker, no medication, chronic anxiety and health anxiety.
Since 27.01 I have been experiencing diffuse pain in my abdomen after a period of relationship issues and after I started magnesium citrate to combat a tremor I developed from being anxious. Pain been there daily, on off, never agonizing but it’s persistent. It feels sore, tugging, gnawing and like someone is squeezing my insides. Location is around the navel mostly to the right but also above it, in the navel region and left to the navel.
I have seen multiple doctors. 03.02 ER ultrasound abdomen all clear except constipation and UTI, cleared. Blood work fine. 05.02 ER ultrasound and blood work clear, kidney looked enlarged, 06.02 low dose no contrast CT abdomen clear except for constipation and some small mesenteric unspecific lymph nodes and in my groin, all clear. Constipation cleared with laxatives. Pain persists. 17.02 another abdomen ultrasound, clear. I‘m at my ends. It’s been almost ten weeks tomorrow and I am afraid I am not doing enough to find out what it is and that they’re maybe missing something since it hurts daily. Some positions make it worse, but it’s really random I can’t even pinpoint a trigger to why it happens. It frustrates me and I cannot enjoy my life the way I did, usually my symptoms disappear after max a few weeks but this is so constant, I am afraid of the C word.
My anxiety is only triggered by work, ruminate on not being good enough, not knowing what I am doing, progression, all of it. I feel like I’m not an expert in anything. I sometimes wonder if I was stacking shelves would I be happier.