In 2016 I felt the creep of what was later diagnosed as Generalized anxiety disorder cover my entire body. It was BAD. Poor sleep, weight loss, dry retching, catastrophising, poor concentration, terrified I was going mad. My GP started me on medication and I attended counselling and slowly I started to feel normal again. The it happened again around the same time the following year. Not quite as violently this time but I felt I was back to square one. 2018 was a good year as it didnt happen. I had about a week of feeling pretty low and that was it. 2019 around the same time and it was back! Not as bad as 2016, but worse than 2017. I coped with counselling and an increase in medications. By now I knew the nature of the beast and that I had to do whatever I needed to do to cope until it resolved. This year I had a couple of days where I thought it was going to come back, but then I was ok. Now though, there has been a change in my youngest sons life and I realize that I have probably had Situational anxiety all along because it is back. What scares me is that a lot of the counselling focuses on whether you have control over a situation or not or trying to remove triggers from your life. I can't remove the trigger and I have no control over the situation so I find it hard to think I can beat this again. I am using all my usual coping methods but worry that these aren't working. Anyone else have similar situation?
