do other people have these symptoms

[mel23]

i have anxiety and i am on mediation aswell as seeing someone sometimes it works and other times i struggle to cope . i dont tend to get chest or heart problems but i do get extremly tired and dizzy,weakness and tingling in my limbs which i know are fairly common symptoms but some regular ones i get which i dont much here about is having great difficulty concertating and very clumsy i know everyone is different but do other people get these symptoms

[BKYTH]

G'day. I experience all of the above. No list of symptoms of anxiety usually lists all of them but generally the most common. I hope you have told your GP about all of this so any physical causes for some of your problems can be explored.                             It is better to learn how to deal with anxiety than to "struggle to cope" with it. I don't know how long you have been on medication or seeing a therapist but both take time for the benefits to be determined.                                                                                   Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) can be very useful as well as relaxation and meditation. The 'Anxiety Disorders Information Line' whose number is 1300 794 992 would provide you with good information and advice.                    There is much help out there that you can avail yourself of so try to make use of it. The more you involve yourself in the process of recovery the better the outcome is likely to be. Best wishes. Philip.

[Pixie15]

Hi mel23,

Welcome to the beyondblue forums. I am not sure how old you are. The difficulty concentrating can certainly be a feature of anxiety. I can have this problem if I give in to worrying thoughts or are distracted by my environment.

Are you clumsy because you are distracted or is it a physical difficulty such as problems with maintaining your grip? If it is physical I am wondering if you have consider arthritis of rheumatism.

I have also come across another recent thread started by lostlostlost with a similar sort of question. You might like to have a look at that.

Thanks,

Pixie.

[geoff]

dear Mel, well I do have trouble with 'concentrating and very clumsy', because if there's anything to trip over I will, and concentrating, at times early in the morning when I read the news on the net, most articles I couldn't remember, because I'm not focused, maybe because there's so much bad news that heads the papers. L Geoff. x