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Hello, you can call me Cora. I'm seventeen and I live in a small town in Washington. I've suffered from severe anxiety and depression for the past ten years or more. I've found myself at the point now where I'm in total fear of the moon because my irrational fears tell me that it's destined to collide into our planet, and at times I have trouble sleeping at night afraid my breathing may just stop in my sleep. For me, every mole hill is a mountain. But I'm generally an optimist person. I try to be encouraging and helpful as much as I can and my confidence, even though it dwindles at times, is pretty high. I know there's a life for myself beyond this. It just feels like every odd is against me between dealing with these disorders and dealing with years worth of unfinished emotional business. I feel totally lost on where to go in life, who I want to be, and how to live with the cards I've been dealt. It feels nearly impossible. I would like some help before I find myself too afraid to reach out, and too afraid to change.

Thank you for your time and have a beautiful day.

- Cora

Hi I'm Jasmin. I have always had anxiety, but has recently gotten really bad. I tend to go to the ER a lot thinking that whatever I'm feeling is life threatening. If it's not one issue its another. I go to the doctor a lot. I can't stop worrying. I tend to ask for reassurance a lot. It has consumed me. I just recently started therapy last week.

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I'm new here, I struggle a lot with anxiety, agoraphobia and depression(of some sorts) at the moment I'm going through one of the worst "episodes" I've been through in a while. I'm kind of just at such a loss and it would mean so much to talk to a fellow human who struggles with this.

My name is Jim and I have suffered from depression and anxiety all of my life. It's been a long struggle and I am finding some peace after years of suffering. Experiencing horrible anxiety in the morning followed by some relief and then the headaches start. It's been my pattern for as long as I can remember. Trying to come to grips with this has been my challenge. I also self-medicated; abusing alcohol and prescription medication....anything to shut down the anxiety. I would like to explore why my anxiety is so bad instead of trying to escape it. I know it has some biological components, but something tells me it's some repressed memory of abuse and repressed feelings/memories going way back. The peace comes when I cry about it, gives me relief for a time and lightening the burden.Then I have to face the rising of another sun and the return of crippling anxiety. I try to keep in my mind that life is a miracle and try to have courage. I don't have all of the answers but I'm willing to take the journey to find understanding.

How do you get into the chat, or meeting, rooms? I've seen things on the calendar I want to attend, and either nobody isn there, or I'm not in the room...?

Hey! My name is Taylor. When I get anxious I get angry and sad. I'll sometimes say bad things about myself or say something mean to someone I care about. It doesn't feel good. I care a lot about a lot of things, which can be stressful sometimes. When I was young my sister had more issues than I did and my parents paid more attention to her and kinda taught me that I wasn't as important as other people, because I don't have it as bad. To this day I feel anxious talking about myself and I often feel like I'm bothering people by just existing. (I don't blame my parents, it's not their fault, but it still affected me.)

But! I'm in love with movies, writing, and buying stuff that involves my fandoms.

I have been to two psychologists but don't think they are very helpful. I like this site because it is free and lets me talk to others. I have been diagnosed with low level chronic depression and social anxiety. I am an introvert and perfectionist and have an OCD personality (not OCD disorder). I hate my life and feel like an underachiever. I have had a bad church experience (over controlling). My main disappointment in life is my lack of career succes despite having a college degree.

Hallo, I'm Kaz. I'm currently dealing with anxiety in pretty much every part of life. I'm totally overwhelmed by being the major breadwinner in a job and with a commute I hate. I can't switch to something I would enjoy because I need to earn enough to pay the bills and my partner can't work more as he has fibromyalgia. This means he can't/won't help much with household stuff so pretty much all the chores are down to me too. I also have a couple of health problems myself to manage. My relationship is not where I want to me, but I feel stuck as he tried to kill himself when I tried to leave before. I have parents who express their disapproval if I do anything they consider to be slightly odd. I'm such a disappointment to my father that he can't even bring himself to look at me! U don't have anyone to talk to, my friends are busy with their own problems and cut.me off if I try to talk; my family don't answer my messages. I don't know what I did to make them cut me off. My panic is starting to rise at having to go back to work on Monday. I'm sick of palpitations, feeling dizzy, migraines. I can barely get out of bed most days, I can't go sick as I won't get paid, which will make things worse. Just panicking, drowning, picking at my fingers to make them bleed. Think I might be falling apart.

Hey all,

I've been dealing with anxiety for most of my life, but it's been really bad off and on since maybe 14/15. I'm 34 now and going through a MAJOR phase of anxiety as I'm trying to find a new job and dealing with a bit of a nightmare of a job that's left me feeling doubtful of myself, so lonely, exhausted, and constantly afraid that I'm going to be fired.

I've got serious social anxiety and while I've been able to cope in different ways (or at least 'get by' in the worst times) my old ways of coping aren't working at my age or stage of life. It's become a BIG hindrance to my life. I'm very lonely and afraid most of the time, for the past couple years especially. Family and friends seem to be moving on in their lives and I'm kind of stuck in a rut.

Things got extraordinarly terrible when my department was closed in my last job (graphic design) and I had to move back home with family at 33. After small jobs I had to take a job that is giving me more skills but it's not enough money to live on my own (especially after student loans, car payments, other bills), a long commute, long days, cold atmosphere, anxious environment. But I feel grateful to be working, I'm terrified of losing this job and the time it could take to secure something new (let alone something that pays well enough to . I want to move on in my career in my own terms and not let this bad situation/people break me. I feel so trapped.

Feels like I've missed a bus that everyone else knew was coming and I didn't have the notice or foresight.

I find myself ruminating over the past and future, because it's so very uncomfortable to be in the present. I'm afraid of missing what people say is the 'prime' of life due to this anxiety.