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Anxiety or creating my own problems?

  • 24-06-2012 6:49pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    How do you know when to get help? I'm not even sure I need it.

    I've experienced anxiety like symptoms for a while now, although i'm not sure if it is just normal nerves. Like ill get nervous before a presentation, go to the toilet a few times beforehand but mostly ill pull through and do a very good one. I'm told i'm remarkably relaxed beforehand. I take it everyone gets nerves in that situation.

    But sometimes ill be out on a night out, bang out of nowhere it kicks in and I have to go toilet or get some air, heart just starts to race and so forth. That's not normal. It's getting worse, but I think that is because i'm worried about it happening now, and so it does!

    One person in particular seems to bring it on, although not every time. After months of it happening around this person I finally did some research, I know it is only the internet and I can't diagnose myself, but Co-Dependency really hit a nerve, I tick off most of the boxes.

    But then, I make mountains out of mohills all the time in my head, maybe i'm just creating a problem that does not really exist, but does now cause i've created it.

    Funny enough, most of my friends joke sometimes I have no heart and show little emotion ever.

    I saw a psychologist once, years ago as I have had insomnia for years but he said I was the most normal person he had met for a long time. But then again, I never share what's really going on in my head with anyone and can project a very composed, confident personality. I can even lie myself into it most of the time, anything bad that happens around me is someone else's fault!

    I'm afraid if I do go see a GP, ill lie (it's nearly compulsive sometimes) or if I told him everything, he would think i'm absolutely nuts and put me on medication and a therapist, I can't afford that.

    And my family can't know.


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  • #2
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    OP - we really are not qualified here to give you any form of diagnosis, as a result I really have not choice but to close this thread.
    I know you have said you can't go to your GP - but that is all we really can advise you to do here. Anything else would just be a disservice to you and the help you are crying out for.

    Maybe also look at some of the resources from the end of our Charter.

    Please go seek the help you know you need
    Taltos


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