Is it anxiety

[El4]

I haven’t really told anyone what’s REALLY going on. It’s been a while since I started to feel like this. Orginialy I thought it was just me being a teenager but what I feel like it’s more than that. When ever something happens I can’t get it if my mind, I tried talking to my mum but she just said I was over thinking it. But I never did this before. It all started when my best friend moved away and then my group broke up and now I feel alone. Whenever someone looks at me funny I start to overthink it and then I feel my heart pick up and I get hot. I can’t sleep sometimes. I just want to go back to normal but I can’t. I started to think that maybe I have anxiety but then I felt bad for over reacting. Some things make me feel sick when I see them but then is that just normal? Idk what to do.....

[El4]

I am sorry to keep saying stuff but I am confused now cause I have one parent telling me that we will work through my anxiety and hopefully get me back on track but then I have another telling me that it’s not anxiety only adolescent and that my brain just freaking out. I honestly want to scream cause I don’t know what to do or where to think. Maybe I am just overthinking this whole thing.....

[Croix]

Dear El4~

No need to be sorry, I think one out of two is a pretty good start. It's probably not news to you but parents can be wrong, particularly if it is something outside of their experience. So I guess you try to concentrate on the one that does believe in the anxiety and wants it to get better.

Getting medical help should not be that big a deal, and even if one parent has doubts I would think the other could persuade it is a worthwhile thing to do anyway. Even if it is called 'freaking out' what parent would really want their child to have to have to do that?

Now, leaving home: which was your big question at the end of your post. I would not leave a loving family environment unless I realy had to. If you were being deliberately mistreated it would be different, as it is I'd very much expect these problems can be worked out.

Hang in there El4

Croix