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An anxious hello

Cacao — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:33:17 GMT

Hello guys,

I am new to this site so I am not sure how it all works. I have been suffering from anxiety for a while now I am interested in chatting with people who suffer from Health Anxiety or any anxiety really. Are there specific chat rooms or forums available?

Thanking you 🙂

An anxious hello

Sophie_M — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:59:40 GMT

Hi Cacao, welcome to the forums. Have you had a look through the Anxiety section?

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/anxiety

There are many threads available on health anxiety - you can also use the search function to find more.

An anxious hello

BballJ — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:43:08 GMT

Hi Cacao,

Firstly, welcome to the forums.

As Sophie_M pointed out there is an anxiety section which you can start your own thread in there about what your feeling and your anxiety or you can just join in the threads already started, or even continue in this one.

I have anxiety and have had it for over 10 years, Health anxiety is a major one of my anxiety symptoms so I know all too well.

Have you ever spoken to your GP about your anxiety and possibly spoken to a psychologist to start working through it? One of the best things I did was start seeing a psychologist to help understand why my anxiety started.

My best for you,

Jay

An anxious hello

geoff — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:24:36 GMT

hello Cacao, thanks for posting your comment and welcome to the site, but there is no need to feel anxious, I know posting your first comment is understandably something which would make you very nervous, but you have to remember that you are asking us for help and/or assistance, and at some stage all of us had to take the plunge ourselves, and from then on it develops into being used to talking to other people even though we are all strange, but after awhile we feel as though we are part of the site, and that's what we hope will happen for you. Geoff.