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BeyondBlue Hi! Check out this post if you're not sure how to start
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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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Rusty Intense loneliness and anxiety
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I like to think I’m doing all the right things but I just can’t seem to shake this intense feeling of loneliness and anxiety. All I desire is someone to talk to, and to enjoy the little things in life

I like to think I’m doing all the right things but I just can’t seem to shake this intense feeling of loneliness and anxiety. All I desire is someone to talk to, and to enjoy the little things in life

Guest_60342526 Shits js so overwhelming
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Aight so i might not appeal to the older blokes on this thing right but everything is js so overwhelming, so im obviously young, im a hair over 17 and everything is js going badly, this time 2 years from now ill be going to university doing the degre... View more

Aight so i might not appeal to the older blokes on this thing right but everything is js so overwhelming, so im obviously young, im a hair over 17 and everything is js going badly, this time 2 years from now ill be going to university doing the degree my parents instilled in me unwillingly from a young age, ill be forced to move out because board wouldnt be enough for my ma and i need to learn life skills, im js sitting in bed thinking how petty things like girls and relationships compare to the responsibilities that im going to have to endure in the next 2 years. Life is js overwhelming

Rusty Rusty
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I am dealing with depression, anxiety and loneliness. I am working on connecting with other people and just visited a neighbour and had a nice chat and felt quite good, but I came home and began to feel lonely again. I’m curious to know if anyone has... View more

I am dealing with depression, anxiety and loneliness. I am working on connecting with other people and just visited a neighbour and had a nice chat and felt quite good, but I came home and began to feel lonely again. I’m curious to know if anyone has had this happen to them or felt this way and maybe some tips to overcome this?

MikeG Anxiety hurts
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Hello i am new to this group, i have anxiety and i am desperate to try and beat it, i am seeing my GP and i speak to a person on the phone from Crisis Care, should i take my doctors advise and see someone face to face, Work has given me time off, but... View more

Hello i am new to this group, i have anxiety and i am desperate to try and beat it, i am seeing my GP and i speak to a person on the phone from Crisis Care, should i take my doctors advise and see someone face to face, Work has given me time off, but when i am alone at home, that is when i start to think, it is never about the past, it is always about what if, things that may never happen, i always think of the worst.i get cold sweats, pressure on my chest, and am very emotional.Any thoughts please

persimmon Life changes
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I've wanted 2 things for 2 years. To live in this specific city, and to work at an airport. Three weeks ago I took myself to hospital with dark thoughts, and was diagnosed with OCD and anxiety over a 3 day period. About 2 days after, when I was tryin... View more

I've wanted 2 things for 2 years. To live in this specific city, and to work at an airport. Three weeks ago I took myself to hospital with dark thoughts, and was diagnosed with OCD and anxiety over a 3 day period. About 2 days after, when I was trying to destress and focus on my mental health, I got a call offering me a job at the airport in this city I wanted to move to.Within three weeks my whole entire life changed. I had to buy a car, pack my life into 2 suitcases and say goodbye to my whole family.I feel flat now. I start this job tomorrow, and I can't even be excited or nervous about it. I'm losing money, fast. I can't find the energy to do anything. I have training for my new job to do. But I just lay in bed all day.I wonder if my timing was wrong. If I should've declined the job and focused on myself first. And part of me really really wants to quit already and sit at home and do nothing.I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to go tomorrow. I don't want to do anything. I just want to stay at home and eat all day.

Guest_30321950 Anxiety and recent adhd diagnosis
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Hi everyone I have just decided to put myself out there. I have suffered gernalised anxiety for years and was treating with medication for 20 years which seemed to help fabulously. Occasionally I would have a blip but ultimately got back on track. Go... View more

Hi everyone I have just decided to put myself out there. I have suffered gernalised anxiety for years and was treating with medication for 20 years which seemed to help fabulously. Occasionally I would have a blip but ultimately got back on track. Going back just over 2 years ago I decided to go and study at uni and as it closer my anxiety grew to the point I had to pull out. My gp tried upping my meds and that didn’t help it made me more anxious so I tried various meds through an out patient clinic to no avail. Eventually I was so bad I checked into a clinic for 3 &. 1/2 weeks and changed meds again which helped for a little but Dr ended up changing them back to my original medication and night time meds for sleep. In the meantime I got diagnosed with adhd also. I have tried some other option to help support me but the drop at the end of the day was too much as the drop believes they are not for me as I kept falling asleep when not at work and still anxious. Today I started short acting medication that is new to me and feel a bit zombie like. Is this normal? Is adhd why I had anxiety all along and was misdiagnosed? I know get anxious about being anxious and feel so teary and lost. I have good family love but I am so scared and frightened this never going to end. thanks for listening

Blaire The news of attack of woman being dragged out of bed this morning literally happened my own mum
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The news this morning of attack where woman had that happen too her was similar too me but my mum did it worse. I tried too grab the doona it’s made me feel anxious as ever and all she got was a bump on the head and decided too make out like I was th... View more

The news this morning of attack where woman had that happen too her was similar too me but my mum did it worse. I tried too grab the doona it’s made me feel anxious as ever and all she got was a bump on the head and decided too make out like I was the one in the wrong anytime im happy with a man she has done this always her and my own violent brother used too bash me up and I never have had the guts too say anything till I let the counsellor know this morning and I dunno what my brother would do he is labelled a sociopath by my old pyschiatrist and I know my kids had to stop her long time ago and now I have new one im not letting him anywhere new house I can’t wait till police finally do something about her and him my brkther and lock her up she has already been the cause of me going on start safely within momentum and it shouldn’t have even been allowed too ever hsve me back there they have totally failed me in that sense i can’t wait she is out of my life for good she didn’t even know my blood type it’s ridiculous i emailed the hospital and had too tell them some really personal stuff cause i know I hope they lock up a previous support worker for her letting her husband anywhere near me. ive told a female constable but they can’t even arrest a woman who attacked me they reckon no video footage and no witnesses the ambulance saw the people there one was stabbed trying too get in ambulance and one man homeless who saved my life I asked for one too come they said no it was a total let down ive got security supporting me in shopping centres and hospitals a woman in hospital told me too fukoff too my face and then another trying too send me home on a bus another night i dunno why they treat me like this now im on medication cause stupid lack of knowledge my severe odeama im allergic too certain things i dunno where some workers come from i was recommended for any health job I wanted in health industry when I was a dental nurse im glad im gunna just stick with volunteer and then my license and plan my future wiyh my man cause the police and hospital nurses and some drs have let me down all I can rely on lately is fracture clinic security gaurds and thats about it and knowing my man’s mums a disability worker so im always safe wiyh her atleast some stupid care company I have decided it would be great idea not too listen too me and have a restraining order put on the idiot care worker and husband long time ago I hope they rot in hell along with my mum who beats me and my brother thats only people I truly hope rot in hell and I find it hard too hate but thats a 3 perfect trifecta of evil

Blaire Violent attack from woman leaving me terrified
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Hey so I have adhd im outgoing and energetic as ever and nice as ever I usually get along with most of society but like one night when I was trying too get past all these people a woman got angry about everything I did she wouldnt leave me alone the ... View more

Hey so I have adhd im outgoing and energetic as ever and nice as ever I usually get along with most of society but like one night when I was trying too get past all these people a woman got angry about everything I did she wouldnt leave me alone the guy who helped me got injured I was left with worst broken arm ever, i was thrown and he saved my life just in time she found me like I thought at hospital I ended up emotionally a mess and in mental ward im embarressed about it but I’m now just scared I have security gaurds in shops watch me as I go too bathroom it’s so nice I wish I could have one with me everytime I go somewhere like if I had the money I’d have my sons entire footy team wearing security uniforms and wearing tasers and big bats just incase I told them and showed them photos I adore those boys im in a moon boot too

Horrendous_Hexapod Politics Are Overwhelming Me
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I genuinely feel as though I wasn't designed to handle everything that's happening. I hate talking about politics, I hate thinking about it, yet for some reason I force myself to hyper fixate on it. For the last few years, it feels like not a week ha... View more

I genuinely feel as though I wasn't designed to handle everything that's happening. I hate talking about politics, I hate thinking about it, yet for some reason I force myself to hyper fixate on it. For the last few years, it feels like not a week has gone by where I haven't worried about something political. In a lot of ways, it's starting to feel like politics are designed to trap people like me in this never ending cycle of fear and anxiety, where they constantly guilt me for forming opinions against them.This constant fighting between both sides of the political spectrum is starting to weigh down on me heavily. It just feels like, no matter what I think, no matter who I interact with, in some way it's always gonna be wrong. I keep being bombarded with these articles about how the side of the political spectrum is the reason we have so many problems in our current world. How we're all miserable, mentally unstable, unintelligent, spoiled, out of touch people that have no empathy for others that isn't purely performative. Some of this stuff is just people's opinions, sure, but other articles use surveys and studies to support what they are saying. Of course, as this is a hyper fixation of mine, I force myself to slog through as many of these as possible, sometimes finding that these sources either, don't fully support the claims being made, or outright contradict different sources. I honestly don't know which sources are accurate and which aren't, but for some reason I'm always hyper critical of sources that don't cause me anxiety, but then when one does it feels like I subconsciously have to believe it. I can't even choose not to read them, because if I do, I guilt myself into thinking that I'm being wilfully ignorant for not wanting to slog through another article on why [INSERT POLITICAL IDEOLOGY HERE] are a bunch of miserable, whiney narcissists. It feels like I can't have any opinion about anything without worrying that it's wrong or immoral, or that any deviation from what is supposed to be the "proper path" for a person is guaranteed misery. I'm sick of debating my political positions to myself, of searching up my opinions to check whether or not some study says they're accurate or not. I'm sick of being talked down to about happiness, purpose in life, free will, and compassion by people self righteous, supposedly well adjusted people who talk with a tone that make it seem like they're mere seconds away from strangling their neighbour's dog.

UpsiideDown Taking to oneself
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I wasn't able to find what I was looking for. My ex bf up for a number of days once Started talking to himself but not how people usually talk to themselves He was using two different tones I felt like when it happened the atmosphere changed and the ... View more

I wasn't able to find what I was looking for. My ex bf up for a number of days once Started talking to himself but not how people usually talk to themselves He was using two different tones I felt like when it happened the atmosphere changed and the conversation he was having was intrusive to the point where he was like fighting against himself saying he wouldn't harm me and the other toned voice was saying otherwise. It seemed like he was really fighting against himself. He the started saying other stuff and I figured its best I leave. When i came back he explained he couldn't control himself and he didnt know what was happening. It's been a few months since his done that but there has been a few times where he goes of the rails and I look in his eyes and It looks like no one is there. What and is there something I could do for him. What would you call talking in two different tones.

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