New To The Anxiety Support Community? Introduce Yourself Here!

Hello community, I finally got up the nerve to come into a forum, wow.

I've been battling severe anxiety for approximately 30 yrs., yes I know

quite a bit about it. Still manages to get the best of me though, so here

I am, and I hope to do some good.

Hi I'm Nikia

I have just recently been in a behavior health center. I am here for support and a listening eat

I'm having a difficult time navigating this site, help? Where do I see responses?

Hey my names Brit , im 22 and i suffer with quite a few things Anxiety Depression some social anxiety mainly around new people it makes me feel edgy and panicky , i get alot of panick attacks too.

i have sleep Aponea also so that doesnt help .

I joined 7 cups to help others as that i found helps me providing my state of mind is ok too , i find by helping you members and guests it lifts my spirits even find myself saying stuff that i wouldnt have thought about and i try it myself and its like woah this works

just wanted to introduce myself to you all here im one of the many amazing listeners on this site and without this site i wouldnt know where i would have been i was happy to have come across it at the very moment i needed it and when i saw i could be a listener i took that difficult step i was anxious bad but when i got my first review i smiled and felt amazing

Hi there :) I'm John. I've always found myself to be a little more introverted and self-aware than others seem to be, and somewhere along the way I developed social anxiety, and general anxiety/depression as a result of low self-esteem. Over the last year or so I've slowly started to gain strength and challenge all the stuff in my head and I'm much happier than I used to be, but the memories of awful days are still there and I fully empathise with others that struggle too. So I guess this is just me saying hi and reaching out to anyone that needs someone to talk to :)

"We stopped checking for monsters under our beds, when we realised ed they were inside of us." - The Joker. Well I wanted to introduce myself to seven cups for a long time, but I needed to wait till things were in its crucial point. I've suffered from anxiety since I was very young, and according to my school records apart from it I daydreamed a lot, and even today. Well I just suffer to much for the future, from opinions and I know that the biggest critic is oneself. Throughout my life I have worried just to much. I suffered for getting good grades, and making people around me feel comfortable, so I needed to reach very high expectations. I liked science, I wanted to study biology and I liked the idea of cellular regeneration, but when thought started to cross my mind I said oh wait stop it, so I started to doubt about it. I discovered I lived in a bubble were we just are too indifferent and hurt everybody too much. We use masks all the time to disguise, we always put our necessity y before anybody, we kill for pleasure, we punish for fun, we impose our idea, our culture or our religion and decide what's right, we are considered numbers in schools and universities, we are considered an average, and we are very cruel with us, with others. That's why this world is rotting, thinking of this made me hate myself even more and increased anxiety to giant levels, I've talked with two psychologists and one psychiatrist, and I felt misunderstood, yesh this world is very cold sometimes, and nice people are either momentarily or just faking something. I believed "Smile because it confuses people, smile because it's easier than explaining what's killing you inside." - the joker But well now I try to express thought it is difficult sometimes, and we need to please many, we worry about our decisions and that is horrible. I feel how I need a friend that I can really trust because it is really important in moments like these, depression sometimes gives you a lesson or just makes you sad that's nasty too! But I liked thinking things can change, though I never know how to start. And motivation is like a roller coaster. It can be up or down it depends if the early is willing to declare you war or just be a meanie! thank you.

I've just been diagnosed with anxiety. Specifically, I have Panic Disorder, which cause panic attacks and a fear of panic attacks happening. I've been having panic attacks for the past two years, and they've been gradually getting worse. With the support of my boyfriend and my soul sister, I'm gradually learning more about the disorder and how I can live with I in a way that is safe and healthy.
Because of my anxiety, I have also been cutting for a couple of years, and am currently working on breaking my self-harm habit. I am slowly making progress, and getting better at resisting the compulsive urges.
The past two years have been rough for me; I've been depressed, suicidal, and anxious, and couldn't tell anyone close to me how I felt. But now I'm learning to be more open about me feelings, and to be honest to both myself and the ones I love. I look forward to the day that I can say I've successfully overcome my self-harm habit, and don't have to be as fearful of my panic attacks.

I've just acutely become aware that this "anti-social behavior" isn't just that. If I talk to anyone who knows me personally, they just say it'll get better, it's nothing to worry about, you just need to be more social. I've tried, I'm still trying. Though today (and yesterday), at a point in class I felt completely overwhelmed and thought I was going to have a panic attack due to all the chatter and activity that was happening around me. I had to leave for about 15-20 minutes and fell behind on my work tremendously. I wanted to come on here and see if anyone could help out, even if just a bit.

I've dealt with panic, anxiety, depression, in being a cutter on and off for the majority of my life. In November of 2014 I had a massive mental breakdown there was even discussion of hospitalizing me. I was so terrified of being hospitalized that I started to hide my symptoms only making things worse I was so scared to tell anyone how bad things are getting because I didn't want to be quote locked away. When I finally reached out for help I was diagnosed what panic and anxiety disorder, depression, and mild agoraphobia. This is the worst it's ever been for me and I've been going through a lot in life that has made it harder to work through things. I'm currently going to therapy but I'm happy to have found this group and I hope you find support and help you too