New To The Anxiety Support Community? Introduce Yourself Here!

Hi all! :3 My name is Emy and I'm a high school graduate. I started having pretty bad anxiety and some depression after a super stressful junior year with school and some difficult friends. I didn't even realize it was so bad until I went to therapy. Now I'm taking mild medication,on summer vacation and feeling much better although I still have panic attacks once in a while. Good to meet you all!

Hey All! My name is Amber and I just joined today, I am 22. I have lived with anxiety my whole life but was not diagnosed until the Fall of 2013 when I was having one to two panic attacks a week and would be down for two days after. I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Depression, and suspicion of PTSD. I am a recent college grad with my bachelors in Psychology and Religious Studiesand spent the year getting bullied and emotionally abused by two of my three roommates. Since about March my counselor I was seeing at school and a staff member (Director of Students with Disabilities) started getting worried sick for me because I was not acting myself and withdrawing from everything. They were/are suspicious of a chemical imbalance and want me to talk to a psychiatrist or my Dr. but my PTSD is because of doctors and cannot bring myself to tell her. Ihaveparents who are not receptive of my medical or mental health, and no support as all my friends are 2+ hours from me, and so it was suggested to me to try support groups oran app for my phone to help. I have struggled for 19 yrs with being bullied and dealing with anxiety and doctors and medical problems so if you need help with those I am willing to talk, I also have been told by friendsI can give good adviceespecially withrelationships.

hey guys I'm new to the support group and I take medication for my anxiety. I had my first panic attack in March of this year. My parents thought i had something physically wrong with me. i had my panic attack at school, that was the worst day of my life.

Ummmm... hi. I'm Sara. My primary diagnosis is depression, but I get a nice side order of anxiety too. And that's what's bothering me right now so... I guess here I am.

I've been on meds--various ones, trying to figure out the best combo--for... I lose track. Time is weird. Three years? More? Had some therapy near the beginning of that for a few months, was doing better and quit, and then a little over a year ago stress triggered a bad relapse so I went back into therapy. Different therapist this time, and I feel a lot better with this one, and I'm making good progress. I'm down to once a month visits. When the anxiety and depression hit me, though, they hit pretty hard.

And right now they seem to do so with suspiciously cyclical regularity. But my gyn tells me it's normal for women my age to start having dramatic hormonal shifts even if not yet actually menopausal. (No one ever told me that before. Argh. The things no one warns you about...) And my meds work fine the rest of the month, there are just some peaks where things get worse. So I'm trying to develop good coping skills to be more aware of times when I'm more vulnerable to those attacks and to be able to get myself through them a little better.

I used to be heavily involved in online forums (not here) and chats, but haven't really been since things got really bad the first time. I've found that such communities are particularly vulnerable to drama, and my threshold on that is really low right now. So I'm a bit nervous here, I guess. I don't know how involved I want to be in a community right now, or how much I want to talk to strangers about how I feel. But I feel like I can't talk freely with most people in my life for various reasons, and given that it seems like this might be worth trying. I'll start here in the forums and work up to a chat, I suppose.

When I started thinking about joining up, I was in the midst of a wave of high anxiety... It's weird to talk about because it doesn't seem to quite match up with typical descriptions of anxiety--there's no focus, no thought or thoughts that overwhelm me. It's just a big fuzzy nervousness. It was short-lived--I'm better now, maybe half an hour later--but I don't know if I can really call it a panic attack because again it doesn't really match what you hear about panic attacks being. I'm not afraid I'm going to die, or whatever, I'm just afraid. I just want to hide. (Afraid of what? Nothing specific. Whee.) Whether typing all these helped, or taking a step toward seeking support helped, or I just naturally got past it, I'm not sure...

This is a lot longer than I thought it would be, and I'm starting to ramble. So. Um. Hi.

Im new here. This is the first time ive ever done something like this. Im not good at opening up and sharing because Ive never wanted to be a burden to anyone. I tend to worry an over think alot. When I try to sleep, i just lay there and worry an over think that i tend to make myself panic. So I dont sleep much. I see everyone around me happy and living their lives an im like...why cant i be happy? Instead i feel stressed and on edge all the time.

Ehm... Hi! I've been struggling with anxiety since last year, but now is getting little by little worse. I'm worried that it'll be a big problem when in a few months I'll start working. Any tip about overcome anxiety? I don't want this to be aproblem in the future

Hi all, Vishal here.. i have some social anxiety issues since I have never really been out of house since school days so talking and connecting while keeping connections is not really a strong point of mine which I hope to fix soon. thanks.

Hello everyone! Depression, anxiety, and insomnia are something I've struggled with most of my life. I was recently diagnosed with clinical depression, GAD, and chronic insomnia. We found the right medication for my depression, which has improved vastly over the past several months. However, my anxiety and insomnia are resisting improvement and in fact seem to be getting worse. (I currently take medication for both.)

When there is an actual cause for the anxiety, I can usually (mostly) pull myself out of it and continue to function. The real problem is when the anxiety and panic pops up out of nowhere. I feel helpless about it...which of course makes it worse. Ugh.

Hey, I'm Micha. Two years ago I suffered from depression and it slowly turned into anxiety. Everything's been pretty much fine until now, but now my life is becoming more hectic due touniversity, and the anxiety attacks seem to never end. My parents are a great help, but we live far awayfrom each other, so there's only so much they can do, and I don'thave any friends I feel comfortable to speakabout this...Life is great :)

Hi I'm Miranda, I've been struggling with anxiety for over four years now. Panic attacks are pretty common in my life, and I never really have anyone to talk to about them.