The only issues Is I have no idea how it's possible. I've never had an outbreak on my lip before and have always been extremely caution not sharing drinks and utensils.

Here I am crying in bed trying to retrace my steps on to how I could have gotten it. I'm absolutely lost for words. I don't remember seeing anyone with one. Is it possible that I could have gotten it using a dirty cup by mistake. I've not kissed anyone or shared drinks or anything in the last 20 days so I'm absolutely confused did I have the virus and happen to not show symptoms and now for some reason it's showing? Never had them as a kid parents don't have them never had one until today at the age of 24 and I'm absolutely devastated.

I'm going to have to make sure I never get them again for the rest of my life? What by taking lysin every day noo :(

I just honestly have no idea where I got it from.... It dosent seem logical.

Anybody else having panic attacks because relationship issues?I would appreciate to hear from others going through it. Never have I had panic attacks before and now had two semi bad ones after feeling heartbroken and unsafe in a relationship.

But goes back to normal pink when you retract back to normal?

Here’s the deal, I’ll try to keep it brief. My mental health has been steadily declining over this past year. I started going to therapy/seeing a psychiatrist and CNRP in the summer after it all became too much to bear on my own. But everything in my life has pretty much taken a sharp decline since then.

I ran into some stressful situations at work in September and at the beginning of October I kind of just stopped sleeping altogether. And by that I mean, for this entire month I’ve been going 4 days without sleep at a time before I crash for a night and get maybe 5 or 6 hours and then the whole cycle starts again. I lie awake in bed all night long, tossing and turning and my heart pounding with fear and dread at the thought of the next day coming. It is a vicious cycle: the longer this issue goes on and the longer I go without sleep, the worse my anxiety gets, and the harder it becomes to sleep.

I am positive that the insomnia is caused by severe anxiety because it always comes on when my anxiety spikes for any reason. I have always had terrible anxiety, even as a teenager. It has gone more or less untreated my entire life because medications don’t touch it. I’ve been on Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Abilify, and Vistaril for anxiety. More recently the new doctor tried Buspar, which I am still taking, but honestly I can’t tell if it’s helping or not with how bad the sleeping issue has become. And most recently, they tried giving me clonidine and then trazadone for the anxiety/sleep issue combo. It feels like nothing works. Nothing helps. It doesn’t matter what I take, I’m always anxious regardless and now I can’t ever sleep because my brain is torturing itself.

The only thing I have not tried for anxiety is benzodiazepines and at this point I am beyond desperate to feel normal again, I feel like I have absolutely nothing to lose by trying a stronger medication. My mental health has never been worse, I’m scared, I’m tired, I just want enough of a break from the anxiety to sleep and get myself back to a manageable baseline. I honestly would not even need the pills every day, but I could use them to prevent things from getting this bad again, which I have no way of doing otherwise.

All of that is to say: Can I have an honest conversation with a healthcare provider about these feelings, or am I automatically going to be labeled as a drug addict if I suggest this? I realize it comes down to the individual person at the end of the day, but in general, will anyone take me seriously?

I struggle with mild depression, and terrible anxiety. Anxiety is much more of the issue than depression. I have been prescribed 3 different medications that address both, but I don’t feel like I don’t ever really see a change in my anxiety. The meds address depression well. I have tried going up on doses, and end up feeling 10x worse, so then go back down to what was initially prescribed. My thought is that maybe I need to be on a benzodiazepine? My understanding is that benzo’s are for anxiety and or panic disorder. Just wanting to see if anyone has been in a similar situation and if you made a switch from anti-depressants to benzodiazepines, did it help?

So I was out with my mum and my aunt, went shopping and on the way home we saw a lot of cars and motorcycle together revving their enginges, kinda like a meet up full of car enthusiasts to show off their stuff. Almost all cars had halloween decorations and there was some loud music too.

So, we went through the cars, because I wanted to see if I found something interesting to see. As we got near the cars I started to get very nervous. All the loud noises made me wanna run away as far as possible, all my brain could think is "RUN AWAY. ESCAPE. GET OUT OF HERE. IT'S SO LOUD". The combination of engine noises, loud music, scary decorations and lots of people came incredible close to induce me into a panic attack. I was completely blocked, like I was on automatic (it's really hard to explain this feeling since english isn't my first language ) Luckily I managed to calm myself.

It's so frustrating because neither my mum or my aunt where scared like me. They never realized I was in te verge of panic and I didn't told them because I'm just too embarrassed.

I hate this. I like cars a lot and I'm too scared of the noise they make. It makes me feel so weak, like a baby who starts crying when he gets scared. I still have no friends where I live, since I'm new here, but it's gonna be so difficult to explain them that I'm scared by anything

Can anyone relate? How do you cope with this hell??

... unfortunately, due to some trauma , i had to quit my martial arts classes. Technically, i can fight back... but over time, I stopped feeling like i wanted to. It will be more than a year ever since i left.

So, I am looking to weight my options. I don't wish to fight back, at all. I'm afraid that if i get attacked on the streets or something, I'll just let it happen, just like i did in the day i left.

How painful is it? Is there a chance I'll regret during it?

I was just diagnosed with severe anxiety and im barely holding on. I moved away for school and since living here my anxiety has been horrible and has become severe, lately it's been the worst possible. I'm sobbing, im scared of being being, specifically my place because of the roommates I have, I get harassed and belittled almost every day, they talk badly about me like they have nothing better else to do. I was recovering from my past anxiety and was doing great up until I got here. As of right now all I do is start crying a lot, like im so scared here, all I think of is wanting to go back, just thinking of my place here in college freaks me out, it's been such a bad environment. I just got new medication today to help me, but does anyone have advice on how to cope with it and calm down when I have my anxiety attacks. I've tried breathing but it's hard for me because I start hyperventilating super badly. I am moving back in December because I truly can't be here anymore as too many things have happened here (sexual assault, harassment, school overload, stressing to get to places, roommates) I've tried everything, I truly thought I could handle everything but I really can't. Please drop me some advice and tips to help me calm down more

I have never been someone who has panic attacks or is anxious very often. I’ve gotten anxious situationally here and there of course, but would not consider myself an anxious person. Suddenly, this week, I have had panic attacks every single night this week. I get a sudden seemingly random sense of like impending doom and dread is the only way I can describe it. My stomach knots up, i feel a pit in my stomach, feel like my stomach is dropping. I get very cold and shake uncontrollably. It causes diarrhea and vomiting which in turn make me more anxious. My thoughts just go wild and i start thinking about all the things that can go wrong and just spiral. I can’t eat. I’ve never had to deal with anything like this and I have no idea how to help myself. I’ve been googling breathing techniques and such, but it doesn’t really seem like anything helps. Or it may help for a minute but it starts back up again quickly. It’s like I’m not in control of my own mind and I feel crazy.

I am leaving on a 3 week vacation to Thailand with my wife in a week and I’m not sure if it’s the trip that I’m anxious about? I’ve never been on a big trip like this. I’ve been nothing but excited and looking forward to it until now. Now I’m having these panic attacks feeling like I just want to call the whole thing off. I’m so confused and frustrated with myself. I don’t understand this at all.

Any advice?

Panic attack, VT, or something else?

Background:

I’m a 23 y/o male that has been working out 4-6 days a week for 8 years

I had a regular cup of coffee from home about 1.5-2 hours before going to the gym, I don’t typically drink coffee and it does make me jittery as I don’t have much of a tolerance

Story:

I was working out at the gym back in August when near the end of my workout, as I was about to start the last set of my second last exercise, I suddenly felt my heart rate go through the roof, making a whole bunch of weird beats all over the place. I thought I was having a heart attack and almost asked the person next to me to call an ambulance lol. I stayed calm, breathed deeply, and called my mom to come pick me up. The episode lasted for about 5 or so before I slowly got up and anxiously walked to the door and sat in the lobby with my mom for a few minutes anxious to get up and walk to the car. I don’t remember feeling much more than the irregular heartbeat other than feeling anxious to standup and pass out if I were to walk out on my own.

I have never had this before and it hasn’t happened since. Only thing I’ve noticed is my heart skips a beat here and there, mostly when I’m tired or working out (I’ve been working out at my home gym ever since), which I believe is normal and I’ve noticed before. I have an Apple Watch now, and my ecg results are always sinus rhythm and my resting heart rate is between 40-80 (40 when I’m sleeping and between 70-80 when I’m active in the day).

I think I had a panic attack but Im curious to see if anyone thinks it could be something else? I read into ventricular tachycardia and the symptoms are seem similar which makes me nervous lol.

My doctor thinks it’s nothing and booked me a holter monitor appointment on Monday for 3 days for reassurance.

I’m asking about this now since I’m going to the police academy in 3 weeks and I’m feeling a it anxious about having an episode like that again while I’m there 😂.

Not asking for medical advice, only general experiences.

We've known each other for a bit over a year, and my partner 29M appears to always be "on edge" and nervous. It doesn't seem to ease if I give him space, either.

I myself have a complex mental health background with adhd sprinkled on top, yet I can't grasp what's going on with him. He keeps saying he wants to get help but is too scared to see a doctor. And he's scared medication could make him lose his mind.

From my perspective, he's easily shaken, overwhelmed, scared, afraid of experiencing "negative" emotions, worries about getting in a car crash (not trauma-related), setting the house on fire, other usual ocd type stuff, can't ever really seem to relax and be present, gets sort of panicky easily and says everything feels like doom and gloom, etc etc. Lots of avoidance behaviors.

He's always reassuring me it's not my fault, which is sometimes hard to believe. He seems to live in constant stress and some kind of fear, and is very easily triggered by almost anything. I can't seem to not trigger him several times a day.

Idk. I have complex childhood trauma. I'm in therapy, on medication, work on myself every day, try to be a healthy partner, but this just... eludes me. I have anxiety too, but mine is.. different somehow, and at least somewhat controlled with meds and therapy. I just don't understand.

My therapist has offered to include him in some sessions, but he's also scared to death of therapy even though he fully supports my going there every week.

I have my first in person interview tomorrow at a well known firm and I feel so sick and queasy because of the nerves. I don't know what to do because I'm so anxious about it to the point I don't even want to go. It's not something I can just cancel or skip because it's very important that I interview there, but im just so so scared. I've only ever done online interviews which have also been nerve wrecking but this feels 10x worse.

I just feel like im going to mess up and embarrass myself :(

Hey! My friends birthday party is being celebrated tomorrow, and i dont know if i should go. My dilemma is that this friend is in my bf's friend group, so usually when we go out my bf is there too. I kinda rely on him on social gatherings, and now he is out of town for a week. Im afraid that i will get anxiety, or that i couldnt enjoy the party, and i cant leave when i want bc the party is in another city like 1 hour away with public transport, and the city is not very safe at night especially for a girl alone.. But i also have this fear of missing out.. i dont know which would be the best decision, and also dont wanna hurt my friend

I have been struggling with anxiety recently, I am triggered by the feeling of not getting enough air into my lungs, so when I get this feeling, I become focused on it, which makes me feel like I have to breath manually, when I do breathing exercises, I am able to breath in deeply, and exhale slowly enough, my blood oxygen and blood pressure is fine, but this feeling has been sticking around for days.

Everything is telling me it’s anxiety, but I am struggling to shake it, has anyone else experienced this before? And for how long?

The strange things is don’t feel anxious until this feeling comes on, and I am not having panic attacks, but this manual breathing things is making me mentally and emotionally tired.

i (13m) with adhd and undiagnosed anxiety didn’t go to school today and i feel extremely bad about it, so much that i had an panic attack. my dad doesn’t like when I don’t go to school. He doesn’t yell or anything, just gets disappointed. I don’t wanna be a failure. I hate myself. Happy halloween guys :,)

i (13m) slept too late last night and because of that my mom didn’t take me to school today on Halloween. today is costume day and I have really extremely bad FOMO. I already have adhd. I have had many anxiety attacks today and even tried convincing my mother twice to take me to school. my dad doesn’t like it when I don’t go to school and I don’t know what to do. I hate myself, happy Halloween everyone…

I keep fighting with myself over taking my prescribed med(klonopin) and end up giving myself anxiety over it. I’m just going through a rough time and it’s like what is worse - having a drink everyday or taking a prescribed medication? It shouldn’t be this hard, like I’m making myself suffer over nothing, why can’t I just take the med and fuck off - because then I think I’ll become addicted, and my brain just goes in loops over and over. It’s such a small dose too.

Hello everyone,

I'm a guy who usually is out on the streets selling (for context), and every time I get into a confrontation I always shake like a b*tch and it's kind of embarrassing, I have no problem fighting and all that stuff, but especially in stress situations my whole body starts to shake.

any advice/help?

P.S.: I also was a bit high at the time of the confrontation, in case it changes something.

Hey, ich werde constantly von Leuten gejudged oder misjudged, die ich leider kaum kenne oder teilweise grad so bei Namen nennen könnte. Ich habe vielleicht 2-3x mit Ihnen geredet oder teilweise gar nicht. Durch das konstante gejudged und misjudged werden hab ich mittlerweile echt Anxiety und komm da irgendwie auch nicht mehr heraus…Ich kann vor allem vor Menschen bei denen ich mich unwohl fühle, also bei denen ich ihre Einstellung mir gegenüber merke mich deshalb aus Angst gar nicht mir selbst entsprechend verhaltend. Genauso ist es vor Gruppen, dies war ein schleichender Prozess, aber ich bin ein ziemlich extrovertierter Mensch und liebe es mich zu unterhalten und auch selbst bei Konversationen/ Diskussionen miteinzubringen. Meistens wenn ich dann aber anfange zu reden, fängt mein herz an schneller zu schlagen, und ich kann niemanden in die augen schauen oder wirklich auf die leute eingehen. In dem Moment hab ich nur Angst wieder falsch wahrgenommen und gejudged zu werden und kann inhaltlich gar nicht mehr das wiedergeben was ich wollte…teilweise zieht sich mein gesprochenes dann auch, mir entfallen wörter, was ich sagen wollte und jeder denkt sich so ja was wollte sie jetzt damit sagen, nach dem motto ich bin dumm etc. Ich weiß dass ich mir das leider nicht nur einbilde und spüre das Verhalten der Leute ggü. Wenn ich beispielsweise etwas gesagt habe und sie sich kurz danach so lächelnd anschauen oder mir aktiv aus dem Weg gehen und mir somit keine Chance geben mich oder sich gegenseitig überhaupt richtig kennenlernen zu können. Wie würdet ihr damit umgehen? Gibt es irgendwelche Übungen/Dinge die ich tun kann um aus diesem art teufelskreislauf heraus zukommen. Ich würde so gern einfach ich selbst sein, aber ich wurde einfach zu oft verletzt und habe jetzt schon eine Redeangst entwickelt….

so im getting ready for school this morning and i have a picture of my great grandmother and grandfather . so the hook i have is loose and i thought my mom had fixed it so i picked something up off it and the picture fell down and i saw a glass cut on the grass frame. i’ve been searching panicking cause i heard about the mirror one. so mind you im sick so i was driving to school and i had turned around to go back home and i saw black crows in my neighbors yard so now im scared. i didnt try to break the frame on purpose it just fell cause the thing was loose.

I used to have terrible anxiety (I'm talking an 8 or 9 out of 10, however I've brought it down significantly over the last few years) and I want to share how. One intervention that made a massive difference to me was reading the book "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Brach. The most important concept of the book for me was the idea of not resisting what you're feeling right now. To illustrate this concretely, here are some examples. Have you ever:

• Felt physical symptoms and immediately believed they must mean something is wrong and so you tried to "fix" them, before later realising they were caused by anxiety?
• Felt fear of something and disliked how it felt, so you did whatever you could do escape it?

In these situations your resistance to the feeling is REINFORCING your anxiety because you're putting your body into panic and fight or flight mode. The reason it's hard to not do this as anxious people is because we feel we're responsible for controlling everything "so things go right for us", but this is an inherently flawed thing to try to do - ultimately overcoming anxiety involves accepting that we can't control everything. This is how most non-anxious people are operating and why they do not experience the same anxiety as us. Another way of framing this which might resonate more is - what is more important to you right now: overcoming your anxiety or being in complete control?

Here are some steps for how to "not resist" a sensation or feeling:

1. First simply become aware that you are feeling an uncomfortable sensation. This includes symptoms, thoughts, feelings, etc. Name what it is.
2. Second let go of the need to change or fix anything. If you notice resistance, acknowledge that too: "I'm noticing I want this to be different". I think your objection here will be "but what if something is really wrong this time!?". The answer here is if you want to overcome your anxiety you need to believe nothing is wrong and that you are safe, based on all the evidence of your past anxiety attacks where nothing was tangibly wrong except the anxiety itself. Can you reduce the risk of something being actually wrong this time down to 0? No. In life this is never possible - this is what I mean about accepting you need to give up some control. The more you do this the easier it will get.
3. To make this process easier, deploy meditative techniques (I describe more about what meditation is and how to get started here) acknowledge what you're feeling as sensations passing through you, and simply observe them. All sensations pass eventually. The breathing techniques also described in that link can similarly be helpful here to make the sensations less "scary" so you can take them.
4. Stay present with the difficult sensations. This literally just means feel them and don't get distracted by your thoughts or try to distract yourself with escapism. I'm sure you've had experiences in life where you've been fully present (e.g. listening to music that fully gripped you, or being immersed in a tv show). This is what this concept is referring to.

I really encourage you to try this out and just see if you feel different after a few days. Again this isn't a short term fix - it takes months of practice to get good at something like this and for it to then funnel through to you feeling reduced anxiety. Please let me know if this resonates with you, or if you have any questions. I'm also looking to start a Discord community for people with anxiety who want to discuss these sort of practical and actionable steps to get rid of their anxiety. If this sounds interesting to you then feel free to join here.

First time posting here. Have had ADHD my whole life along with mild anxiety that has shown up over the last few years. I have a high stress job in sales. What I am looking for is tips on how to get rid of, handle the irrational thought/thought loops. For example, a few months I was in the woods and had a few ticks on me. Over the last few years there has been an increase in people getting bit by ticks getting a red meat allergy so going down that rabbit hole I have some how convinced myself that I MIGHT have it even though I have eaten meat since then and have never had any type of reaction lol my question is, when things like that happen and you can't shake a thought pattern, what have you found out works best? TIA!

tbh, i don’t know if it’s anxiety or something else, but whenever i get an opportunity for something, i feel a great heaviness on my heart to the point that i feel that i don’t want to do well anymore, for example i moved to the next step of a job interview which will be a test, the moment they informed me i felt confused, and i feel down? I am definitely going to take the test, but how to overcome these feelings?

So I’m headed to the market and I look up at the sky and I see a plane making a smoke line. so I look down at my phone, and when I look up again I see something else mind you the sun is shining extremely bright so I can’t really see. But when I look up again I see something very shiny and it look like the sun light is reflecting off of it causing it to look like the light on it is big and bright. long story shot I thought it was a ufo 🛸 as it got closer I saw that it was just a plane 🤦🏾‍♀️ it’s like my brain tell me it’s something I should worry about even if it’s not and that’s so draining to me how do you cope with this type of worry?

You know that nagging “What if?” feeling that creeps up at the weirdest times? I just read an article that dives into when those everyday jitters are actually waving a big red flag at you. Spoiler: constant anxiety isn’t just “part of adulting.”

The article breaks down some eye-openers, like:

• Why your brain sometimes acts like it’s training for the Anxiety Olympics 🥇
• How it’s not normal for random stress to mess with your sleep, social life, and focus all the time
• Tips on spotting when anxiety is crossing the line and what to do about it before it gets worse

This hit home for me because it’s easy to brush off anxiety as “just stress,” but sometimes, it’s worth taking a closer look. If you’re finding anxiety creeping into every corner of life, this might be a solid read. Here’s the link if you want to check it out!

Link to the Article

hi, so i’ve had anxiety for about 5 years now and have gone through ups and downs of it, but the last three weeks it’s been really intense, i keep getting vivid dreams and i’m waking up in the morning with really bad anxiety attack and then i feel nauseous and have occasionally thrown up from it. I just feel run down and exhausted all the time, and i’ve honestly felt like i’ve had the flu for ages- and as a kicker i have really bad health anxiety so it’s like an infinite cycle and even when my anxiety isn’t on my mind and i feel ok-ish mentally i still feel like i’m in a constant anxiety attack

has anyone experienced this before, or like have any tips, because i just don’t really know what to do

help me I used a pin to pop it and I’m so scared I’m gonna get a brain infection And die. Please I just need some logical comfort.

I am quite seasoned freelance designer and have learnt UI-UX design I am looking for office jobs but the thought of interview, telling them about myself,to speak words out of my mouth scares me! I have always handled clients and the projects through email/text based conversation. I have buckled up my courage several times and failed and each time I take a break thinking I don't want to do this but return wanting to do the same. The cycle is continuing since a year I am thinking of continuing as freelance for ux design but that'll require me to be on video calls which I absolutely despise I'll somehow prefer to be in office setting and talk over video calls. My ideal scenario would be handling clients over text based conversations only it gives me time to think better and not black out due to numerous things running in my brain.