New to this site; supporting messages/success stories with anxiety anyone?

[Russellmania]

Hello everyone! I’m glad to have found this forum, and it brings me some relief to know I’m not alone. I’m 28 and going through some really bad anxiety right now and have a few symptoms: heart palpitations, loss of appetite, occasionally having trouble breathing and have to do deep breaths, etc. I have excessive worrying thoughts, especially about the future and I don’t know why and can’t seem to enjoy my life at the moment. I’ve gone through anxiety before when I was 19 and again at 23 and had similar symptoms to now, but I never went on medications, as my anxiety resolved on its own. I guess over time my anxiety just got better and I stopped noticing it, maybe due to distractions in life. So here’s to hoping that my anxiety this time around will resolve on its own too with the passage of time.
Has anyone ever gotten better with their anxiety without medications? Any success stories about beating anxiety?
Also any supporting messages or advice to stop excessively worrying would be great.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Cuchculan]

Welcome to the forum. If you look around you will see a load of people with similar issues to yourself. It is all just anxiety. Though at times people do wonder if it is anything far worse. The answer is, no. That is what anxiety does to us.

As for getting by without medication. Some hate medication. They won't go near them. Others know they need medication. Each to their own come the end of the day. As far as getting better goes? I think we learn to exist with anxiety. We can make a life for ourselves. Learn to manage the anxiety. It can be done with a bit of practice.

Distraction is key to a lot of what we might do. To stop ourselves thinking inwardly. Take our minds away from those thoughts we might be having. Just find something you like doing. Reading a book. Playing music. Anything will do. So you are not allowing your mind time to think negative thoughts.

 

[Russellmania]

Thank you for your response, Cuchculan. I’m doing my best to distract myself, which is easier said than done sometimes. I have my moments when I find relief, but that only lasts for a few minutes or so before I get anxious again. It’s only been a full week since my anxiety started acting up again, which I believe was triggered when I started experiencing tinnitus in one ear. It caused me so much stress and worries that I think it made my anxiety worse, which then led to more symptoms of anxiety, and then leading to anxiety about everything else. I’m doing my best to stay positive, take deep breaths, and stay hopeful that this will eventually pass.

 

[Cuchculan]

That is all you can do. But try and remember were you where at before last week before the anxiety kicked in again. How good you were doing. Just to show yourself how good you can do. That you have done good in the past. Which means you will do good again in the future as well. For now you are simply going through a rough patch. In time that will pass. As it does with all of us. There will be better days ahead for you.