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Hi there and welcome to the Anxiety section of the Forums First of all, thank you so much for joining us here. We think it’s amazing that you’ve taken this step to getting support and learning from this Community. You are very welcome here and we are... View more

Hi there and welcome to the Anxiety section of the Forums First of all, thank you so much for joining us here. We think it’s amazing that you’ve taken this step to getting support and learning from this Community. You are very welcome here and we are really interested in what you might want to add to these conversations. We get it, having anxiety makes it hard to share in a public place. Remember, this is anonymous and the Beyond Blue team are here to help if you need it This section is for people who are experiencing anxiety in some form in their lives. This might be in social settings, at work, or just in the day to day. You don’t need a diagnosis to post here. If it feels like the right spot for your post, go right ahead! We know that feeling anxious can make it hard to reach out so we want you to know that getting this far is amazing and a great start. A few tips for getting the most out of this section: Get involved when you can! Posting and replying is the heartbeat of this community and you DO have something worthwhile to share (when you’re ready ) Every experience is different. There is no competition here. We know how challenging anxiety can be and how it comes in all shapes and sizes. What you are experiencing will be respected and supported here. Trust yourself! You are the expert in your experience. This community works because people like you share what has worked for you. Thank you for getting involved and taking a look. We can’t wait to hear from you! Beyond Blue

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LoVeMyBaBiEs Any new mums with anxiety?
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Hi, I’m 29 and have a 10 month old and a two and a half year old (hectic times!) I would love to meet some new mums who have anxiety too. I can’t bring myself to go to any ‘mums and bubs’ groups as I just get too anxious and find it easier not to go.... View more

Hi, I’m 29 and have a 10 month old and a two and a half year old (hectic times!) I would love to meet some new mums who have anxiety too. I can’t bring myself to go to any ‘mums and bubs’ groups as I just get too anxious and find it easier not to go. I really wished there was a ‘mums and bubs’ play group for mums with anxiety and/ or depression so we could chat and know how everyone’s feeling. Thanks for reading

Breadloaf74 Am I just anxious
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Hello all, this is my first time posting, I recently stopped smoking cannabis about a month and a half ago after 4 years of pretty heavy use, two days after I quit I was very anxious and had the idea that I was going insane or losing control, for ins... View more

Hello all, this is my first time posting, I recently stopped smoking cannabis about a month and a half ago after 4 years of pretty heavy use, two days after I quit I was very anxious and had the idea that I was going insane or losing control, for instance I'd be at the shops and I'd have this weird image in my head if me going insane and running around like a man, ever since the thought of going insane crossed my mind, this led from my father having schizophrenia, and I thought that I'd be like him one day, ever since I've not stopped thinking about it, it scares me to hear about anything to do with people that aren't right mentally, I'm also very anxious when I'm by myself, I'm scared I'll hear voices or see things that aren't real like right now. Although I've never had hallucinations before, I seem to be obsessing over the thought of going insane and that's why I'm posting, I suffer from severe anxiety and mild depression, a little/fair bit of ocd and I think a lot of these thoughts and feelings are due to anxiety intensifying it, I have heard a common symptom of anxiety is the feeling of going insane or losing control and I would just like to know/ask If anyone else has gone through the same experience, it's very scary and I kinda just want someone to tell me that I'm not alone, thank you

LoVeMyBaBiEs Social Anxiety
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I have really bad anxiety and I get really anxious about social situations. I’ve got my sons birthday coming up and I love throwing him a little party but I am going to worry about it for weeks before hand. I think I’m just worried about being judged... View more

I have really bad anxiety and I get really anxious about social situations. I’ve got my sons birthday coming up and I love throwing him a little party but I am going to worry about it for weeks before hand. I think I’m just worried about being judged and I hate when any attention is on me. I’m fine with going to other family parties. I’ve tried all the techniques such as breathing and some other ones I got from my psychologist but it just doesn’t seem to make me stop worrying. Even though I know it’ll all be fine, I can’t stop. I don’t see my psychologist for another month and just wondering if anyone has anything that works for them? I’ve always felt this way before anything that I have to organise or any social event where I don’t know many people but I’m only starting to recognise that it’s anxiety now.

jess_b Is this my anxiety talking?
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Hey Everyone, I would just like some perspective on an issue I have been having and asking what strategies others have when this thought process occurs. So I have been living with my partner and his family for a bit between renting while we find our ... View more

Hey Everyone, I would just like some perspective on an issue I have been having and asking what strategies others have when this thought process occurs. So I have been living with my partner and his family for a bit between renting while we find our own place and I’m excited to move out and have my own place but then when I think about moving I get anxious and get scared of moving out because I fear I will feel worse or more alone not living with other people? Same goes for things like organising a camping trip or something I don’t follow through organising because it makes me anxious but on the other hand I really want all of these things? So I’m confused haha is this just the nature of anxiety? it just fears the unknown and wants to make me feel like the worst could happen so it stops me from doing these things? and if so what strategies can I use to over come these struggles? thanks for all the help

Mattimuss Anxiety and OCD flare up...
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Hope everyone is well and doing their best. It’s been awhile for myself being here however a recent flare up has bought me back. I was down in Melbourne over the weekend for the fights. Got into Melbourne Friday night, got to my hotel room and everyt... View more

Hope everyone is well and doing their best. It’s been awhile for myself being here however a recent flare up has bought me back. I was down in Melbourne over the weekend for the fights. Got into Melbourne Friday night, got to my hotel room and everything was fine, that was until I came back to my room Saturday afternoon. When I got back to the hotel room, I noticed I had slept in the room with the window open about 15-20cm all night. The curtains were closed and everything, the were also kind heavy however my ocd about bats reared it’s ugly head again after noticing the window had been open night without a screen. I’ve tried to block out the thoughts but that hasn’t been working, I don’t have another appointment til next week however I wish my ocd flare up would calm down. The odds of a bat getting in the room are very slim as also the whole motel is lit up with white led lights all over the place. I’m positive I would have woken up if there was a bat causing a muck being inside but logic doesn’t always work. Does anyone have any advice? Has something similar happened to you? Have you ever slept with a window open without a screen on it? Thanks for and and all support

Kim78 Vomitting from Anxiety
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Hi Can anyone help? I have bad anxiety, so much to the point I throw up / be sick. So sick of it (pun not intended!), to the point I have started to get depressed by it. I feel like I have tired everything been to a few counsellors, see a Mental Heal... View more

Hi Can anyone help? I have bad anxiety, so much to the point I throw up / be sick. So sick of it (pun not intended!), to the point I have started to get depressed by it. I feel like I have tired everything been to a few counsellors, see a Mental Health nurse. Tried medications, including one which lowers blood pressure, which makes me feel drunk so I can't drive, which I need to be able to do. I have talked to Beyond Blue. Any help would be grateful.

Anxiety_overwhelmed Can’t sleep!! Feel scared!! No one to talk too!!
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I’m so scared, how do you cope with excessive break and enters in your local community and I’m talking EXCESSIVE it’s happening so often now it’s crazy the whole community is outraged. And I’ve never been anxious about it before but for the past 3yrs... View more

I’m so scared, how do you cope with excessive break and enters in your local community and I’m talking EXCESSIVE it’s happening so often now it’s crazy the whole community is outraged. And I’ve never been anxious about it before but for the past 3yrs I’ve been so scared at night times even to the point where my partner doesn’t work night shift because I don’t want to be home alone!! Tonight though is the first night that I’ve physically cried tears about my anxiety and why this is happening to me! It’s currently 3am I’ve been up for 2hrs over analysing every single noise, scared to move, or look out the window incase my house is next!!! Is there help in managing this so I can at least get some rest I’m exhausted

that guy Latest symptoms has terrified me!
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Hi everyone. i was diagnosed with anxiety over 18 months ago, and my main problem is health anxiety, it was so bad that it literally caused me to suffer other symptoms like nausea and chest pain. I went on medication, and eventually it died down and ... View more

Hi everyone. i was diagnosed with anxiety over 18 months ago, and my main problem is health anxiety, it was so bad that it literally caused me to suffer other symptoms like nausea and chest pain. I went on medication, and eventually it died down and my doctor put me off of it. all was fine until about 2 and a half months ago, I was just about to leave for Europe and I felt weird, like my arms and legs were weak, I had some lightheadeness as well, this caused me to worry for a while, however these symptoms disappeared while I was on the plane. when I returned about a month later, they came back, however they were dismissed as jet lag as it was a big and exhausting trip. They lasted for about 2 weeks, before they stopped, after that I was ready to go on with my life. However the weakness feeling came back 3 days ago, and now I’m terrified that something is wrong. They started again after I had to deal with Centerlink (the robo debt got to me) and it has been a very stressful experience, added to that, my muscles are starting to ache and itch and I’ve been nauseated for a few days now. I can’t concentrate at work, I can’t exercise because I don’t want to make it worse and nothing that I love doing is helping. I don’t have a psychologist app for another 6 weeks, and I’ve got no one to go to. What’s even worse is that I fear that it could be something like MS, and the thought of that makes it even worse. i don’t know what to do now!

Kokurie Struggling with sleep :( Night sweats?
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Hey there, I’m new here I’m in my final year of high school and with exams ramping up soon, I am really struggle to FALL asleep. Just thinking about trying to fall asleep makes me tired and stressed. This is a big issue since I have lots of bad anxie... View more

Hey there, I’m new here I’m in my final year of high school and with exams ramping up soon, I am really struggle to FALL asleep. Just thinking about trying to fall asleep makes me tired and stressed. This is a big issue since I have lots of bad anxiety and rumination in the daytime, which is exacerbated with sleepiness. It takes a good 1hr-2hrs to finally drift off, Ithought it may be night sweats, here my symptoms: Tension headache, Sweating around head, Tingling and prickling hands and feet, Feeling very hot in my extremities (feet, hands) This happens about one hr into trying to fall asleep and Keeps me from falling asleep for another half an hour. I also get random super fast ‘heartbeats’ around my body, a beat that is like 10x faster than my resting heartbeat and it’s freakish. I’m very tired at this point as it’s way past my bedtime and my head hurts from trying to sleep - I usually wake up with a headache, my head feeling like a brick. Time passes very slowly and painfully and my body and brain feels like it’s self destructing. It’s silly but I’m scared I’ll eventually die of stress in my sleep This started happening about the start of this year. I have no underlying health problems that I’m aware of, but I have started taking large amounts of zinc. Couldn’t find my symptoms on google, wondering if anyone can relate. Thanks

OllieB I want to change
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So I haven't been here in a while, my counselling stopped as I had reached the end of the support a school could give and they gave me a document on how to go to someone else... But I didn't I ignored it stopped looking at all the sites I had joined ... View more

So I haven't been here in a while, my counselling stopped as I had reached the end of the support a school could give and they gave me a document on how to go to someone else... But I didn't I ignored it stopped looking at all the sites I had joined and convinced myself if wasn't real that somehow I had made it up. Then I practically locked myself up in my house I avoid school friends at first people asked questions wondering if something was up but then that stopped too and I became good at lying to myself and worst of all to others. Now I don't know what to do I feel really alone and I don't like who I am or how I'm living my life i want to change I want friends that I can rely on I want to walk into a new place and see the amazing adventure that can be had not walk back out because my heart is racing and I'm struggling to hold back tears of overwhelming fear I don't know how I got here and I don't know how to fix it... But I want the old me back

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