Can barley leave the house.

[JoeJCav]

Hey everyone!

I was recently diagnosed with severe anxiety which was a surprise to me because I honestly though that everything I experienced was what everyone else experienced.

The biggest problem that I get is that I find it almost impossible to leave my house. If I have to I can force myself but I try to avoid it otherwise. If I wake up in the morning and I know I have to be somewhere I just feel so tired that I can barley move. I can and have laid in bed for hours stressing that I might not have gotten enough sleep to make it through the day.

When I manage to power through and get out of bed, I find I just can't eat breakfast and this is generally just before the nausea kicks in. I've never actually thrown up from the nausea but it gets really intense although while hanging with friends I've had to excuse myself so I could hide in the toilet until the sick feeling dies down a bit.

I don't really know what I hoped to achieve posting this but I just need to get it out in the open somewhere. I can barley walk down the street without worrying that I'm going to get hit by a car or attacked by a person on the street. I never go out drinking with friends because when I consume alcohol I start worrying that I'm going to throw up straight away.

It just kills the social life and I really miss hanging out with my friends and not worrying about anything.

[Mbuna]

Hey Joe,

I suffer from Generalized Anxiety disorder. My symptoms are not as severe as yours but i will try to relate. It took me 35 years to work out what was causing my problems. I just thought that everyone had the same problems as me. One thing I have learned is that sitting at home feeling sorry for myself does not help. There are some mornings where I really have to force myself to get out of bed. When I have nothing to do i worry. If I get up and get active i find things are a lot better. I know its easier said than done and if you are suffering from nausea then that's not helpful either. Has your doctor given you any good advice. You have taken the first step. You have sought professional help. What we have is a mental condition. It is treatable but its going to take a bit of hard work. Hopefully the professional help you are getting will help you with the panic attacks. keep posting. Nobody on this forum will judge you. We are all here to help.

Mbuna

[trueblue]

HI Joey, you are not alone mate.  I have the same problem but i just can't get myself to leave the house.  I am new to the forum and just posted my story.  Basically, I haven't been out of the house for a year except for a few doctors appointments for medication.  I am even too scared to see a psychiatrist to diagnose my problem.  The times when i have had to go to the doctor/specialist I couldn't sleep, woke up really early and felt sick all day.  I have an appointment in a few days and i am dreading the drive there and having to wait for a doctor.  

You are not alone in what you are going through.  I suppose i am at a low point and have a long way to go.  I just wanted to say that there are people out there suffering the same problem.  For me, walking outside of my house to feed the local crows and magpies in the afternoon is a massive achievement for me.

Good luck and keep posting on how you are doing.

TB

[geoff]

dear Joel, I can understand the feeling of not wanting to leave the house, as I was the same years ago.

Can I come at your comment from a different angle and this maybe helpful or might be rubbish, however sometimes I watch up feeling nausea, but I have now learnt that if I have nothing in my stomach food wise, that this is causing this feeling, so now I make sure that I have eaten something before bed and had a drink of soft drink, it's the carbohydrates or the fizz in the drink that actually do help me.

It would seem as though these bubbles would make you throw up, but with me hey don't.

The same applies with having the hiccups, sometimes you need to eat food which may stop these hiccups.

With regards to lack of sleep, then maybe have a cat nap in the afternoon, and if you know that this will happen, then there won't be any fear of lack of sleep.

I need my afternoon sleep, there is no way I can go without it, so try and readjust to these new thoughts knowing that they will happen.

Depression creates this almighty tiredness in us, because we go to bed tired and wake up tired, so we feel as though we haven't had any sleep. Geoff.