Anxiety First Timer, Scared.

[guest159]

Hi everyone this is my first time posting on beyond blue, since this is my first time suffering from anxiety.

 I am 18 years old, male and working part time in my family business. These couple of months have been extremely hard for me because I've had health issues that i kept to myself, and googled a lot of info about it, and i was self diagnosing myself with a lot of terrible illnesses. Finally, i opened up to my family and they took me to the doctor for those issues and my doctor has referred me to a specialist and now i am maintaining the health problems i had. The main issue now is that i am experiencing a lot of random muscle pain, chest pain, problems swallowing, back of head pain, and lost about 9 kilo and weigh 60kilo. I'm seeing a psychologist next week about it, since doctors have told me this is anxiety im going through. Everyday i say to my parents about my pains i feel everyday because im constantly thinking about the pains because it's always there, EVERYDAY since all these health issues started. Also these last couple days i've had like rabbit poo stoles everytime i go toliet. not sure if this is part of the stress? please HELP. sorry if i didn't go into depth im not the best typer

[Doolhof]

Hi Julian,

Welcome to Beyond Blue and to the community here. Thanks for sharing your story with us.

If you check out the RESOURCE section above, you will find more information about anxiety and how to deal with it.

It is great you have spoken to your family and have been to see a Dr. The Psychologist will be able to help you immensely and will be able to explain things to you well.

I'm certainly no expert, just a fellow person who has some mental health illness issues. The symptoms you are explaining relating to your anxiety are so typical of things so many people have mentioned here.

Maybe when you feel these symptoms, you could talk to yourself about how you are feeling. Your Dr. has explained they are symptoms of the anxiety, and not a dreadful illness.

So if you notice the chest pains, just stop for a moment. Think okay my chest is really hurting. Am I  having a heart attack? No. The Dr. explained these pains are due to my anxiety. Okay. No heart attack happening. Take a few deep breathes. Acknowledge the pain is there, but don't concentrate on it. Take a few more deep breaths. Count from 10 to 0 or do something else that will distract your thoughts.

The more we concentrate on a pain or side effect, the worse it can become.

Regarding the "rabbit poo" sounds like you need a little more water and fibre in your diet. Ask you Mum what she suggests for fibre. For some people it can be a few prunes, more fruit or vegetables.

If your Dr has given you some medication to try it could be a side effect of that as well.

Google Constipation and see what comes up and then decide what might help you.

Hope some of this helps.

Cheers for now from Mrs. Dools or Lauren

[Chris_B]

Hi everyone, this is a duplicate thread. Please continue your conversation in the original thread, I am locking this one.