How I Beat Anxiety

LeaderDman — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 08:42:11 GMT

Hey everyone I know when I was going through anxiety that one of the things that helped me the most was seeing a success story. It was comforting to know that you can indeed beat anxiety. So here is mine.
Part 1
It all began when I had a bad reaction to weed though I used to worry, over think and was anxious in social situations before this event. The reaction to weed is a story in itself, but essentially I suffered extreme pain. After this event I suffered from depersonalization for a week, which means everything felt like it was a dream. I also had this pain in my chest that would have been caused by my constant worrying, this caused me to have my first panic attack. Any pain I felt would cause my anxiety to get worse as I would fear getting the pain that I had from the weed. The extra worry would just make the pains worse and give me more symptoms. I saw the doctor many times and even a therapist, but it didn't really help. I tried to work at my job in a grocery store, but nearly had a panic attack at work and my back would get extremely sore very quickly. I also had to take time off uni as I was too anxious to go. My life had been taken away from me and all I wanted to do was get better though I didn’t feel like it was possible.
I suffered from nearly every symptom that can be associated with anxiety. Here is a list of some of these:Numbness and tingling, dizziness, chest pain, feeling like throwing up, feeling my heartbeat constantly, brain/body zaps, flushed/burning skin sensations, cold flashes, fear of impending doom, heart palpitations, panic attacks, more depersonalization, feeling like i would go crazy or hurt myself/others, scared of talking to people, choking feeling in throat and hypersensitivity.There were even more symptoms, though I think that gives a good idea on the severity so someone with a similar level of anxiety knows that it’s possible to beat. All I felt for those couple of months were fear and pain.
I got to the point where I decided to try medication to help deal with it so it would be easier to get better. I was on medication for a week and it was the worst week of my life. I had heard it can get worse before it gets better, but it was too severe. I suffered from extreme insomnia where i would only be able to sleep for an hour a day, I also started getting hot flashes and all of the symptoms got worse especially the fear of impending doom. So I made the decision to stop the medication and beat anxiety medication free.

How I Beat Anxiety

BballJ — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:50:16 GMT

Hi LeaderDman,

Firstly, welcome to the forums.

We need more success stories like this and thank you for sharing... may I ask how you got of the medication and ended up beating anxiety without it, I have done very similar but would love to know what your journey was, I saw part 1 was written so I am assuming there is a part 2, apologies if that is incorrect.

My best for you,

Jay

How I Beat Anxiety

geoff — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:06:27 GMT

hi LeaderDman, thanks for sharing your story with us and being able to do it free from medication, this takes a very strong person to do this, to be able to handle what is thrown at you and to be able to push it aside, so well done.
Unfortunately not everyone is able to do the same and do require medication, but then trying to find which AD suits them the best, that in itself can be very tiresome and exhausting, and hopefully one way or the other there will eventually be a resolution. Geoff.

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