Does anyone here suffer from an anxiety disorder?

[st67]

Social anxiety for sure. Never been diagnosed or seen for it. I'd call it mild compared to what I've seen out there, though.

[The JareBear]

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I can't ride in the passenger seat of a car. I'm tall, so legroom has always been an issue, but the last couple of years if I'm not driving I start to panic. I went on a trip with my wife a couple of weeks ago, and she drove about 10 minutes before I had to make her pull over so I could drive. It's frustrating on long trips that I have to drive all the time.

I am floored that someone else said this....

I had this same problem with anxiety was bad for me....wow thats crazy

I still get it sometimes, I notice my breathing start to pick up and it is just another one of those times that I have to just tell myself to relax.

For a while, I thought it was because my first big anxiety attack started when I was riding in the passenger seat, and maybe its just kinda one of those brain things (kinda like how if you throw up after eating a certain food, thinking about that food after can make feel sick).

I have talked/chatted with a lot of people about anxiety over the years, never heard anybody else who shared this one with me.

[AC]

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Had a panic attack last night, not fun.

[Feared]

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I used to have this problem really bad back in High School. I would get panic attacks, shortness of breath, shaking, rapid heart rate and all that especially when faced with the possibility of being in Social situations and even going out in Public at times. It was so bad I tried to avoid most people in my School as much as possible.

Ever since graduating though I've pretty much completely got over the issue, I no longer get nervous around people. I can hold my own in most conversations, although I will never be the main facilitator, or "igniter" of a conversation. I no longer fear going out in public, and I am pretty calm. I guess I just outgrew it, one of the main things was I gained 30 pounds and made some muscle gains from working out for 2 years, when I was a kid I was 120 pounds and looked very skinny, I guess I thought people would always look down on me for that. I'm still skinny but at least I look somewhat healthy now. Also in the Working Life a lot of the petty High School drama bull**** is cut out and you don't have to deal with it.

It hasn't 100% gone away in all areas however. The problem does still linger when I talk to Females, especially attractive ones. I for some reason still get nervous, no matter how much I try to tell myself she's just another person. For some reason I just can't go up to an attractive girl and try to make conversation with her. If I'm talking to a bunch of guys, or older females at work I'm very calm, composed and clear thoughts, but if a hot girl walks in I choke up on my words, and become quiet, and shy.

[Stormyhog]

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I had a panic attack a few years back. I was up late and started feeling a bit off but I thought nothing of it and decided to head to bed. When I was in my room I felt my heart rate starting to increase fast and got really scared. I thought I was going to have a heart attack so my parents called an ambulance. Anyway everything checked out fine after some tests. Doctor said stress could have been the cause of the problem with me as I am a nervous person. I haven't had anything like that since so hopefully it doesn't happen again.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Mine is a generalized anxiety issue, and it deals with driving. My first job out of college I was working as an engineer on a road project on US-50 and I witnessed a horrible accident where a semi crashed into a pickup, pinning it under another, and then the pickup caught on fire and I saw two people burn to death...the screams and smell haunt me to this day and there was nothing we could do, and oh how we tried. I had to then check the signage and everything was to code, the ******* just wasn't paying attention and killed two people (he got off on some trucker technicality). I walked those miles with a tape, I KNOW he saw those signs. I could have just drove and measured, but I walked and saw the signs on that clear day.

That wasn't the trigger though. The very next morning, showing up for work on the same stretch of road, five people in a van were killed when they hit a stopped gravel truck, and the gravel mechanism failed and dropped basketball sized boulders on the van, killing the passengers. I had to observe the Fire Department washing the blood from the highway with their hoses. Words can't describe...

Ever since I saw those things I've been on edge driving in any congested roadway, every construction zone, I curse and get insanely pissed at texters and talkers, hate lane drifters, and all sorts of other issues. My wife is amazingly thankful that circumstances brought us from that job, and it's very hard to deal with. In fact she's extremely worried about the drive to my son's new school that will be a narrowed construction zone until mid-October, and me navigating it twice a day (curse his intelligence, LOL).

Is it debilitating? I don't think so. Does it affect me, abso-freakin'-lutely. And I will never own, nor enter, a blue tarp.

[slickdtc]

Wow that is traumatizing.

I definitely have some sort of PTSD from getting t-boned by a drunk driver in October 2009. I can drive fine, I'm in control. But I suck as a passenger. I can't feel the pressure of the brakes so I always think we're not going to be able to stop in time, I check blind spots and mirrors like a madman, overall just a nervous, anxious mess waiting for some distracted fool to sabotage life as I know it.

I can recall seconds before impact and the sounds and sights. Ugh, it's freaking me out just thinking about it right now.

[AC]

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Not to unnecessarily bump this, but the other week I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

[Bighoff]

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Wow that is traumatizing.

I definitely have some sort of PTSD from getting t-boned by a drunk driver in October 2009. I can drive fine, I'm in control. But I suck as a passenger. I can't feel the pressure of the brakes so I always think we're not going to be able to stop in time, I check blind spots and mirrors like a madman, overall just a nervous, anxious mess waiting for some distracted fool to sabotage life as I know it.

I can recall seconds before impact and the sounds and sights. Ugh, it's freaking me out just thinking about it right now.

Car accidents are the leading cause of PTSD. Good luck with it, get help if you need it, and know it will get better when you work at it.

Not to unnecessarily bump this, but the other week I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

Good luck with th GAD, hope it gets better for ya.

[Bullit]

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Not to unnecessarily bump this, but the other week I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

Wish you all of the best. My anxiety issues have been really bad of late. Since my daughter passed away my own health anxiety has grown. There are times that I am just not sure that I am going to make it thru another day.

I have gotten a little better over time and don't need my meds everyday, but I carry them with me just in case. Kind of like a security blanket of sorts. When it gets really bad, I feel like I am going to die any second of a heart attack. Even though I have had every test run back in January I still feel this way some times.

I have not been diagnosed with any specific type of anxiety disorder but I know how troubling it can be. If you ever need a ear to bend or anything just send me a pm.

Best wishes for peace

[TCM]

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Bump!

I haven't been diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have a social anxiety disorder. It's really hard for me to describe exactly how I feel, but I just feel uncomfortable wherever I go. Even if I'm doing something super easy like going to the store, I have to mentally prepare myself and I'm always afraid I'll do something wrong. I'm never late to class because I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I walked in late and couldn't find a seat. Just little stupid scenarios like that are holding me back from so much right now and I just don't know what to do.

It's hard for me to make new friends because I'm always very uncomfortable talking to new people and I always make a terrible first impression by not introducing myself or something just because the words won't come out. People just assume I'm kind of an ******* because of that but not very many people really know me and I've never talked to anyone about this but it's really affecting my life right now.

I'm going to talk to a therapist next Wednesday, so that's a good place to start.

[Bullit]

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Bump!

I haven't been diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have a social anxiety disorder. It's really hard for me to describe exactly how I feel, but I just feel uncomfortable wherever I go. Even if I'm doing something super easy like going to the store, I have to mentally prepare myself and I'm always afraid I'll do something wrong. I'm never late to class because I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I walked in late and couldn't find a seat. Just little stupid scenarios like that are holding me back from so much right now and I just don't know what to do.

It's hard for me to make new friends because I'm always very uncomfortable talking to new people and I always make a terrible first impression by not introducing myself or something just because the words won't come out. People just assume I'm kind of an ******* because of that but not very many people really know me and I've never talked to anyone about this but it's really affecting my life right now.

I'm going to talk to a therapist next Wednesday, so that's a good place to start.

It can be a really lonely place when you are trying to deal with anxiety, I can really empathize with your experience. Hang in there. They guys around here are really great if you need to chat with somebody.

[JazzMan]

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Like others, I'm not diagnosed. It's nothing major or anything, as I've only had one panic attack throughout my life, and that was in my sophomore year of high school.

It's the little things, though. Like sometimes I'll skip one of my classes because I have stomach issues and I'm afraid someone will hear it.

If I go somewhere to meet up with somebody, I wait in my car and wait for them to show up as well.

On my lunch break at work, I'll sit in my car and eat if I drive through somewhere instead of taking it into the store into the break room. I just assume coworkers would judge me.

Just little things like that.

[TCM]

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It can be a really lonely place when you are trying to deal with anxiety, I can really empathize with your experience. Hang in there. They guys around here are really great if you need to chat with somebody.

Thanks man, I appreciate it.

[mburke2]

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I'm pretty sure I have some kind of social anxiety, in certain situations anyway. If I'm in a social situation with a large amount of people I don't know (even if I'm with people I do know), I get uncomfortable and my acid reflux starts acting up. Then I can't even drink to loosen myself up because my stomach feels like crap. It doesn't happen every time, it's very situational, but at times it has hurt my ability to be as social as I wanna be.


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