ANXIETY

You are now breathing manually.

You are now focused on your heartbeat.

Wow, for some reason my tongue feels really heavy right now. Feels like I could choke on it at any moment.

Same here anon, just tell yourself that when the time to leave comes, its time.

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>>38245954
i feel your pain so much anon, It honestly feels like my existence was some kind of mistake. Ive had this problem ever since i was really little.

When I was like 5 I used to be absolutely terrified that some kind of giant monster would just rip the roof off my house and kill everyone in the world. It seeems so silly now but i was genuinely petrified.

Now as an adult its translated into speaking a combined 20 or 25 words a day. Being an extreme hypochondriac. Being terrified of every kind of social situation. Having no friends. and hating my very being for all of it.

So i guess i have to deal with it until I walk into traffic one day.

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>>38245954
DECENTERED NIPPLE

I've had chronic anxiety and stress for the last year and a half. It's on all the time I think due to my very poor posture and holding my stomach clenched instead of using my back muscles properly. There are times where I come out of the anxiety after months of having it continuously and have significantly better vision, sense of taste , ability to speak more fluently and with more complex words , as well as the ability to feel emotions like love for my family. All of these are significantly improved and noticeable like a light switch turns them all back on again within a matter of minutes when I come out of this chronic stress anxiety state. I'm slowly starting to realize for me
Personally all of this is heavily tied to my severely poor posture like I said and constantly tensing my stomach and abs as a result. Any one can relate to any of this? I honestly have felt like I'm going insane most of the last year and a half

>>38245954
I was put on an antipsychotic for bad panic attacks/derealization and it really helped for that. General anxiety is still there though, but it feels manageable and doesn't ever escalate to full panic anymore.

Thanks for the responses, a little bumperino just to keep the thread going.

>>38246092
>>38246148

I am far beyond the physical phase.

I am become... transcendental anxiety...

>>38245954
>maybe I should quit drinking.
You should. My anxiety isn't as severe as yours, but it is pervasive and kind of the same type. Drinking always makes it worse the next day. When I give up alcohol (usually do it for lent) it gets much easier to manage in general.

Alcohol has a rebound excitatory effect on your nervous system when it wears off. I think there's reason to believe that it kind of accumulates with chronic use and deregulates your system over a period of time.

>t. NEET with neuroscience degree

>>38247176
Thanks for the tidbit, will definitely try just quitting.

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>>38245954
yeah im with you brother. door-bell/phone ringing makes me feel like im gonna have a heart attack. i apply for jobs and shit but i dont even pick up the phone anymore - shits awful. xanax and alcohol help a lot (never at the same time of course) but dependency/tolerance and losing memory makes it a shit show. really not sure what to do at this point

>>38245954
I sometimes find myself when in bed to think what ifs about if my life is actually real, if I am simply dreaming, in a coma... ect.

Makes me nearly cry, sometimes.

>>38246522
this was me senpai but last october i started doing push ups in my room. at first i couldnt even do one but now I can do up to 40 without buckling. it's a big improvement since in school i was always the kid picked last in sport when kids divided into teams. you should attempt to do a few push ups, anon. the few people i speak to have even noticed a difference without me telling them what i was doing. If you stick to it for 15-20 minutes everyday you'll notice a difference in a month's time even if it's in your bedroom.

I hate it. Sometimes because of my anxiety I end up doing things I don't want to do, or people try to take advantage of me in this vulnerable state. It's even worse around girls. It's hard for me to have a legitimate conversation with them.
I've gotten better dealing with people however girls are sadly my weakness.

>>38246092
God I hate these stupid tricks, fucking Jew
They don't make sense, but always work

>>38245954
is there source on that trouser arouser

Bump for anxietybots

>>38248599
her handle is virtualgeisha

I am really anxious about going to the doctor/dentist. I don't know if it's as bad as some other robots in this thread, but it's still affecting me pretty bad. Also, social anxiety is sometimes crippling me, lately it has been appearing while i was having fun with my friends and making me go home and cry myself to sleep.

drinking is only going to harm your anxiety problem due to the rebound effect of glutamate flooding your system to counteract GABA

I know this alcohol anxiety all too well...

I have an unhealthy amount of anxiety as well, related to my performance in my work field (last year student at internship), my hopeless future, and the responsibility I am slowly attaining which I cannot handle. Not to mention social encounters and a burning self hatred.

At some point it even got so tremendously bad, that I started to have daily panic attacks at my internship, where my coworker thought I was on the brink of a psychosis due to my heavy trembling, and my psychologist thought I was delusional and saw things crawling on the walls (which I didn't). In the end I was told to quit since people thought this wasn't very sustainable for me. I still fucking resent myself for it having come to that, since it makes the situation all the more hopeless.

In my downtime, things went relatively fine after a while of even worse depression than normal. But now that responsibilities are creeping back up to me, I am experiencing intense moments of panic again. I wish there was a way to stop it, but I guess the thing that induces anxiety in me is the inevitable strife of life.

>>38245954
You stupid faggoty cuck , that's just general stress and everyone experiences it, you just wouldn't know that because not everyone is a little pussy who has to but a label on everything

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>>38245954
Hey dummy! You got to stop thinking the way you think. It's called cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm not going to hold your fucking hand through your issues in life, maybe someone will write a song about you if you don't pay a specialist to help you.

I sometimes wake up with anxiety, like its a dull knife in my chest. I don't work it up. I just get up or mess with my tablet and it goes away. Really like to know why I have this. I have learned how to deal with anxiety and other symptoms through a mental health group called Recovery international.

>>38246092
I don't get the heartbeat thing but I always breath manually.

>tfw professional meditating

>>38245954
Go to a psychologist, start cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). It will help you.

Quitting drinking isn't necessarily a bad thing only if you're over doing it. However quitting it because you think it has an influence over your anxiety is a safety behavior which is even worse for your anxiety. Why? Because it tells your brain that your anxiety IS something bad when it really isn't. You can't die from anxiety, it's impossible. But every time you feed in to the idea that you can and will get hurt by it it gets stronger and more rooted.

Exercising is really good. You should keep that up but in the end you need a professional to talk to as well. So go see a psychologist because this is not something you h

>>38245954
I used to have health anxiety anon, still do actually but it dosnt effect me anymore. I take antidepressants bur they are kind of a meme placebo I think, for me the best thing against anxiety and depression has been dedicating my life to bodybuilding. You need to find an all consuming hobby to pour all the energy that would be spent on anxiety into.

If any anons want to ask me about health anxiety I will be sticking around in the thread for a while

>>38250811
fucking quick reply shit.

because this is not something you have to live with. Something that really helped me when my anxiety was learning about why your body reacts the way it does. Why it feels like there's a boulder on your chest or why your finger starts to get tingly and or numb or why your heart beat increases. It's all natural and honestly amazingly clever responses your body does to combat a fake danger that you perceive as a real danger. For instance the numbness and tingling in your fingers is because your body redirects the blood from non vital places and sends it to your major muscles instead. Like your legs for running and it's also a safety in case you have to engage in combat where if you get a cut on your hands or fingers you wont bleed as much.

>>38245954
Reminder for everyone having mental issues to get your testosterone level checked. I was diagnosed low T after years of bullshit and it pretty much completely cured me when I got it fixed. You literally cannot function properly as a man with low T. Get it looked at. Set up a blood test tomorrow.