I need advice because i think i have anxiety

[Suzie_Paige]

So im a 13 yr old female, and i think that i might have anxiety. i always stress when friends go off in groups, or want to talk alone without me. I havent talked to anyone about it, but i just want opinions from other people. I can never get to sleep at night until 12:00 and i always worry about people leaving me and abandoning me and talking behind my back. i dont know what to do

thanks for any help or advice

[geoff]

Hello Suzie, a warm welcome to you and thanks so much for posting your comment.

I'm very sorry to know about how you are feeling, I know myself how this feels and it's an awful frightful experience, but please don't blame yourself.

I can't diagnose you, only a doctor can do this, however, if you were my sister I could suggest that with anxiety comes a feeling of having 'intrusive thoughts' which is related to OCD.

I wonder whether you have these thoughts?

Are you able to tell your parents because this is very important, and I only say this so they can take you to their doctors.

I would also like to suggest Reachout au.reachout.com/urgent-help and/or Headspace headspace.org.au/about-us/contact-us/ as well as Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800.

I would be very interested to hear back from you.

Geoff.

[romantic_thi3f]

Hey Suzie Paige,

Welcome to the forums and thanks for joining us! I can see that Geoff has already given you some support and resources.

I personally have an anxiety disorder and can absolutely relate to all of those things that you've mentioned! You're not alone with what you're going through.

Here is a link with some other things that link in with anxiety - maybe you can see if you can relate to anything else?

https://www.youthbeyondblue.com/understand-what's-going-on/anxiety/signs-of-anxiety

Maybe that could be a good first step and then if you think you have anxiety we could see what might be helpful?

Hope you enjoy being here on the forums!

[J___]

make sure you're not mixing up anxiety and humanity.

it's an evolutionary habit to fear of being left out. similarly your bed routine may be out of whack due to pubert but more likely its what your doing before bed. do you look at a screen less than 20mins before you go to bed? are you eating surgary foods (dessert) before you go to bed? being afraid your friend s are gonna leave you is fine most people expericne something like that when they care about people. teenhood is hard and you have a lot of new feeling and pressures. Its very easy to see that things arent normal and put a name to it liek anxiety and in some ways its comforating to have and explaination but the truth is i dont thing you have anxiety. maybey i dont know the full picture thats just my thoughts. but wether or not you do have anxiety it is obvious that these feelings are causesing you some misery. so what can you do? I think first of all understand why this is happening answer some of the question i asked about your sleep and if your really worried ask a doctor or teacher. \

I hope this helped