Hi everyone,

I am a researcher with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) and am currently conducting a study about the way corporations communicate about mental health.

My current study requires participants who have experienced anxiety, as I believe without your voices, others will not fully understand the needs and struggles associated with anxiety and how to accurately accommodate them at work.

To complete the study, I need about 200 participants. Therefore, I am offering a raffle for a $50 Amazon gift card for participation.

The questionnaire is completely anonymous and takes about 10 minutes to complete.

If you are at least 18 years old, employed and reside in the US, please consider participating.

The link for the questionnaire can be found here: https://uvacommscience.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6glp56w9Uo23iNn

I really believe that your participation in this research will help provide a more accurate understanding of how people dealing with anxiety respond to communication.

Thank you in advance!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Kind regards,

Ana Krsmanovic

/r/MadOver30 is a sub for general discussion of mental health issues for people any age over 30 years. It was started about 12 months ago because some people in the community at /r/mentalillness expressed an interest in being able to discuss their mental health issues with older people. Its a relatively small, and close-knit community of 3.5k members. The sub supports all approaches to mental health, but tends to feature posts relating to more progressive thinking. All are welcome.

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Hi there!

My name is Ryan, and I am a Counselling Psychology graduate student at City University of Seattle (Calgary Alberta campus). For my thesis, I am really interested in levels of belongingness and stigma attitudes on mental health subreddits, as well as offline. I would LOVE to have your input regarding your experience on mental health related subreddits! The survey will only take about 15-30 minutes, and the results will hopefully help inform future research and clinicians about the world of Reddit. Each participant that completes the study will be entered into a draw to win a $50 gift card (2 available) to Apple or Google Play (whichever the winner prefers). Two winners will be chosen from the reddit usernames provided in the survey. Thanks for your time everyone, I greatly appreciate it!

I will be sure to provide an update after the study is complete, so everyone knows how their participation impacted mental health research.

Here is the Survey Monkey link to the study:

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I had 2 car accidents in 2 months...

I just paid my ticket for about $150 for making an illegal left hand turn that got me in a wreck. My car now has been in 3 since I started driving at 18.. All fender benders, but all were very scary and I don't want to drive anymore after all of them. The sound of 2 cars hitting eachother is terrifying. Riding passenger is terrifying now too since I am worried that something will happen.

I also got kicked out of my house and started smoking weed (its legal and I'm of age, the two events are NOT related. My dad was abusive and is getting therapy)... I just don't know if I'm doing things right.

I don't feel like I'm a wreck but my life is going crazy right now with everything going on. I am doing good in college but I still feel like I'm failing..

Is there anything I can do?

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For some background I haven't had a "real" job sense middle school. Back then I tagged along with my brother to bag Hazel nuts. I didn't have to do any talking, interview or anything like that. I'd just get right to work. In high school I attended a job shadow class that we had to do. It was the most stressful experience of my life and still ranks as one of the highest.

After high school I would have extreme issues with anxiety and panic attacks involving resumes and applications. Pretty much anything I had to do to that involved "selling myself" for a job. All of this went on hold due to medical and mental issues. I got on SSI and it was the end of work related stress for a time.

I had SSI for 2 years then they canceled it because the "found 3 possible jobs that I could do". They never mentioned what those jobs may have been or gave me any other indication for their choice. It's been a year sense my appeal and I figured I'd try out vocational rehabilitation to see if work would be good for me. If anything I figured they could point me in the right direction or offer resources I might not have had.

Today was my 2nd appointment and I was brain dead throught the entire assessment this time. The questions were simple (i.e. what are your strengths? what kind of job do you hope to get?) but I couldn't answer most of them. I was just to stressed out. I almost broke down there and then. I just wanted to keep repeating "I DON't KNOW" over and over again. I pretty much did that just without the crying. I tried to tell him that I feel like I'm a 10yo in a 26yo body. He told me some story of how he knew someone that felt the same but "got tired of it" and stopped. I had this feeling at a young age to it's not just going to go away because I act different.

I couldn't handle the stress. When I came home I allowed myself to release my pent up panicked feelings. I haven't cried like that in nearly 2-3 years I'm not sure. I didn't want to stop but I had to as my mood was getting more and more unstable as I continued.

I don't know what to do. I feel like I can't work without a safety net such as SSI and any job I feel ok doing is if it's something I can do myself. I mentioned art but he recommended a janitorial job. I just want to learn something I like to do for some money.

(TL;DR): Work stresses and freaks me out but I went to Voc. Rehab. while waiting on SSI approval. Had a panic attack after some work/skill related questions. I kept composure for the most part then freaked out at home. I'm diagnosed with HFA (High functioning autism), PTSD and depression. Only aspirations/thing I enjoy are art, computers and games.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed.

I am on a daily regimen of Wellbutrin in the morning and Prozac at night. It works as well as I can expect. My anxiety isn’t completely gone but I find it easier to live with it and use my tools to help me navigate life with anxiety better.

My doctor prescribed me hydroxyzine for moments of extreme panic to take on a “as needed” basis. It didn’t do much except make me fall asleep. So she switched the hydroxyzine to Buspar. She told me to take it in the same manner. As needed.

I’m reading that this is usually prescribed as a daily medication and it doesn’t work well as an as needed med.

Has anyone else been prescribed Buspar to only take when you feel like you need more help?

I started having panic attacks at the beginning of this year landing me in the ER several times because I thought I was having a heart attack. They did every test in the book and they keep saying my heart is fine but I randomly get chest pains all the time during the day and when I get panic attacks my arm starts to feel like it’s being squeezed and my breath goes short (this is usually the first sign of the attack it’s not like I’m anxious before this happens). Followed by every symptom in the book for a heart attack.

I’m trying to trust my doctor and I really don’t think anything’s wrong with my heart anymore but when it happens I always keep 911 ready in my phone to call just in case.

Anyways does this happen to other people too? Should I still be worried and go to the doctor I mean chest pain for almost a year still seems pretty scary to me, even if it’s not heart related.

Thank

for years i've had this overwhelming sense of doom, this feeling of having been fucked up. i hate to even say this considering he has his own history of csa and physical abuse, but i genuinely wonder about my dad sometimes. there's just this awful feeling that hits me out of nowhere sometimes. i cant breathe and everything is just awful and i feel so sure that something happened. but other times i feel so stupid and evil for even thinking that. my parents were separated when i was around 3 and i'd see my father every other weekend. ive stopped seeing him as much because there;s just some level on which he makes me feel awful. i dont like who i become around him, i get so mean. my father and i had a very codependent relationship; he often conflated our identities and acted like we were the same person. he was kinda religious, he briefly joined the orthodox jewish community. but we still took naked baths sometimes and would hang out in the same bed. when it was cold he'd wrap his legs around me. he had a game called the palate game where he;d stick his finger in my mouth and tickle the roof of my mouth. recently i asked him about this and he (knowing i'm gay and being reluctantly accepting) said "what? you don't do that with your girlfriends?" for a long time he'd kiss my neck even though i didn't want him to sometimes, i'd tell him it made me uncomfortable and he'd explain it away. he'd pressure me to eat lots of food, he has sort of disordered eating and eats very little and it's like i was eating for him. once i had a stomach ache and he had me drink a glass of vinegar water but often when i told him i had a stomach ache he;d tell me i don't get stomach aches. i can't really remember anything totally fucked up though, just sometimes i wonder, here are some reasons: i began masturbating at a pretty young age i think, and engaged in sexual play with a friend of mine who had experienced some csa. and here;s the awful part, please dont think im an awful person: i think i might have taken advantage of a younger kid a little bit, i had a game where we'd take turns jumping on top of eachother and when i jumped on top of her id land on her with my crotch to get some sort of stimulation. i can't orgasm. i was intensely hostile towards men for a period when i was little. i struggle intensely with depression and anxiety and have attempted suicide twice. i experience dissociation. i get this feeling like there;s a pill in my throat. i soemtimes wonder if maybe the reason i struggle so much is beacause something happened to me? but idk. i'm probably just overthinking this the way i do and making something out of nothing, but i've been wondering off and on and pushing these thougths away for a few years.

My name is Michael Garza and I am a researcher at Louisiana Tech University. I would like to ask those of you who have the time to please fill out the survey. My IRB and Human Participants form are the first two pages in the link. If you have any questions please feel free to leave in the comments. The study is about personality, discrimination, and different OCD subtypes. Warning it might cause some unwanted thoughts or images when you read over the material.

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I've been having some panic episodes for nearly 3 weeks now, the longest I've had for a while, and would like to try something new to help since what I have been doing isn't working. I have tried doing things like video games, watching movies, etc, but unfortunately they only work temporarily as a distraction more than a help. Do you have any suggestions?

TL;DR: I get heavy night time anxiety that makes it hard to fulfill my obligations and responsibilities during the day. Doesn't happen every night, and is exasperated by coffee, kratom, kava, modafinil, weed, and ritalin. Oddly, amphetamines will completely eradicate any symptoms or episodes.

I'm a fairly logical person, intelligent, college graduate, well paying career, and I'm introspective and self-aware. I'm feel so frustrated because my life is very negatively impacted by severe panic and anxiety at night time. 85% of the time it's all at night, I rarely get anxiety during the day. I don't get it every night either.

My peripheral vision becomes really sensitive. I'll see reflections and tiny movements that are completely normal, and I'll become very startled. If I'm listening to a podcast or music by myself, and I think I hear a sound, I have to pause it and listen. My mind jumps to wild accusations and conclusions, like the tiny reflection I just saw must be a murderer, so I'll look behind me and of course no one is there. It's so stupid, but feels so real.

Just wondering if anyone had gotten over this before, and if so, how. I'd love to just feel not so alone by this. I'd love to retrain my mind to not be so anxious. Thanks!

I've been feeling like crap for about 2 weeks now. Every time I start feeling normal within a day I'll have another panic attack. For information I am taking medication but I've built up a resistance and it doesn't really do much anymore. My panic attacks aren't one that make me feel like I can't breathe, they're linked more to my emotions and I panic about feeling like I'm failing others, etc, and that quickly leads to depression... I just don't know what to do anymore... Help?

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I have some telling me I'm a good, smart person but my mother reminds me of my wrongs and says I'm a liar and that I disgust her...

I can't stop procrastinating and crying all the time and I feel like I'm always up to my neck in metaphorical water, gasping for air. I just want to tie a rock to my leg and give in....

I never feel good enough to any extent.

I freak out at every project, assignment or exam I get. I'm only 19 and if this is life, I'm worried at how I'm unable to handle it. College has been done before. People graduate with good grades everywhere but I can't seem to get through the week. What's worse, I'm at a public university that's kinda sorta my academic level but the student life is dreadful here unless you're in Greek life, which I won't lower myself to (I don't drink and frats scare me and there's shit ton of responsibility and payments).

I just don't know what to do anymore or who I am.

I had my first panic attack off weed, and ever since then I've been prone to panics. The summer after I got my first panic attack, I fell into this awful dredge of constant panic, physical pain, and horrible emotional distress - but they weren't full blown panic attacks. However, it lasted all day.

Back then, I was with my parents in Wisconsin, in preparation for moving out my college dorm in Chicago and into a proper Chicago apartment. I had to quickly manage my panic enough so that I could live away from my family, and move in with roommates and become a fulltime student again.

And for the next three years, this worked. My symptoms died down so much, I was able to even hold down a part time job. Although I could never stomach weed smell again, and some little things made me feel worse, I felt manageable.

Come these past few weeks; suddenly, things have gotten much worse. I can no longer ride the train, I woke up this morning in a fit of panic that I haven't felt since that awful summer three years ago, and I feel completely lost and hopeless.

Some recent changes in my life; 1) My citalopram medication was lowered from 40mg to 20mg by my new providing doctor about five months ago. The change did coincide with a sudden rise in symptoms, but after 10 days it died down and I thought no more of it. 2) My aunt is a practicing Buddhist, and is using traditional methods of prayer and spiritualism from where she is in Taiwan right now. The worsening of my symptoms really did start when she began these prayers, and she did mention it's got to get worse before it gets better, but I've no idea how to think about this. 3) I've been seeing a psychologist for the first time. Two days ago marked only the second time we've ever met. We've only yet talked about my history, and getting to know the intricacies of my panic disorder. 4) I recently graduated college this December. I am unemployed because of this panic disorder - there's no way I can work now.

I don't want to deal with this anymore. I don't want to be stuck in Chicago away from my working mom while I writhe in bed consumed with panic. Please, anybody know of any help? I've called some crisis lines, and talking about it does help, but its only temporary.

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... God, panic attacks are the worst. The derealization, the terror, the trembling, this feeling that the Grim Reaper is breathing down your neck. And sometimes they seem to go way, way longer than a defined "panic attack" should. Ebb and flow all day.

Because I deal with chronic and pretty severe health issues, monitored yet intense, the feeling of impending doom is kinda... not entirely out of the ballpark. Those palpitations COULD be the anxiety manifesting, or there IS a slim chance it's related to electrolytes or cardiac muscle damage.

My foot is bouncing like an electric current. To anyone out there who can relate, said heart goes out to you. Gotta' get through this.

I feel bad. My issues I'm having, I shouldn't be having. I know people say that isn't true, but the thing that (I think) caused my sudden shift in coping ability was a breakup in September. We dated less than a fucking month. I've been getting worse before getting better and I don't know what to try next.

• I've tried giving myself time. Now it's December.

• I've tried facing the issue and hanging out with her. I am my happiest with her but then she gets a Snapchat or something and I'm reminded how we used to hang out every day and never stop talking and now we aren't as close as we used to then I get a panic attack and I just have to leave. She isn't dating anyone else but she has the emoji with another guy and they hang out every day and that's what we used to do before we started dating and that makes me want to throw up. He's not even a bad dude is the worst part (for me, I'm happy for her).

• I've tried facing part 2 by hanging out with him but it makes me want to die a little each time. I can't even hang out in the same room as him anymore. He is slowly but surly hanging out with my friend group more and more and if he gets added to our group chat or something I don't know what I'm gonna do.

• I've tried isolating myself. But she is in my core group of friends and removing her means removing everyone and then everyone notices I'm not around and I get anxious she will find out that I still care as much as I do. Also that means I'm losing all of my friends which is an awful idea so I can't do that.

• I've tried just moving on. But I can't because I've been on dates and I just think about how I feel no connection whatsoever when the girl and I were so close I couldn't even believe it. I haven't been on any second dates.

• I've tried therapy. Never done it before. But in the middle of a panic attack I managed to force myself to go to my university's health clinic and use a free counseling session, been back once, going again in January, but I feel like it hasn't helped at all. In fact, it may have made it worse because now I'm anxious I'm going to lose all the traits I like about myself. I don't get angry at people. I am kind. I have drive to be the best. But in order to fix these issues I'm having I would have to lose these other aspects and that's scary because once I lose them who even am I.

• I can't talk to anyone irl because they are all in the friend group and they all think I've moved on and every time I try to reach out I just can't do it and it just doesn't happen. They know something is wrong and have asked about it a few times but I just can't make myself do it.

Why am I still feeling this way. I should be ok by now but I'm not. I need help but don't know what the next step is. I refuse to touch drugs or alcohol because I'm scared as to what I would do or say in my current state.

Idk what my goal with this was. I was almost hoping writing it down would make me feel better because I read that online but it hasn't. I'm reaching the point where shes in my dreams at night and my thoughts during the day and it's like a demon that won't leave me alone. Like I don't have a mouth but all I want to do in the world is yell at the top of my lungs.

My mind is racing 24/7. Thoughts never ending. Can't have a second of peace and now sleep isn't a reprieve anymore because she started entering my dreams after my last therapy session so I'm scared to even go back to therapy for another reason.

I'm to the point where I'm having panic attacks every single day. This is not okay. I need to be studying for finals.

I need help.

Need help.

Help.