Just how bad can anxiety get?

[Jmarks86]

Hi well this is a first post for me.

So I guess life doesn’t always go the way we wanted, and sometimes we stress and get depressed. But after majority of my adult years have been plagued with some form depression which was crap but nothing I feel I needed help with.

But as of late my mind has pretty much gone into overdrive with negative thoughts It’s literally turned a once fairly confident young adult into a person who overthinks everything and makes every situation out to be the worst cause scenario. Along with this I’ve found my physical health suffering as well I’ve always got problems swallowing, my chest is tight and I’m never sleeping anywhere near the amount of hours I should be, because my thoughts just run rampart into the night.

Like I was just wondering how bad can it get, cause atm i can’t catch a break it’s there all the time every time I try to relax and have some me time.

I have been to a doctor a few times over the past year and been put on anti anxiety/anti depressants I guess not to sure what medications were prescribed , but I’m not to sure they ever worked really that well after trialling them. So how do people deal with this level of anxiety??

[Matchy69]

Hi i really know how you feel,i to suffer from major depression and severe anxiety.My anxiety is destroying my life and do have the thoughts of worst case and then make it happen with my anxiety.

It has helped me just talking on here to complete strangers,it seems to help knowing i am not alone and other people are going through what i am.

I wish their was an easy answer but i havent found one.I have had counciling in the past which did help me through some really rough times.

[Jmarks86]

Yeah literally I’ve been on here for an hour reading stories and it’s crazy at how many you can relate to.

My next step is to seek counselling and hopefully find a way to lessen the burden that it’s been causing as of late. Although I see a lot of people using medication to help deal with the anxiety, I don’t know but do you need to be on these drugs for a certain time for them to actually start working as I’ve only done like a month/6 weeks max and while one stopped some of the thoughts , it also made me just feel like I was a walking zombie and decided stop.

[Matchy69]

Hi,it is good that you are getting some counselling.I hope it helps,just talking to someone can help.

I know what you mean about medication making you a walking zombie.They can have that effect on you.They can take some weeks to work.Just talk to the doctor about it,what they are doing to you ect.I had go off my axiety medication for other medical reasons,it wasnt really working for me.

Your not alone,plenty of support on sites like this.I just like to let it out at times.I dont really talk to people outside of here about my problems.They just dont seem to want to know,so i just keep quiet to them and come on here instead.