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Old May 27, 2005, 08:45 PM
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Thank's for the replies. No, I'm not in therapy nor have I ever been. I had a scary incident with one phsychiatrist and thought they were going to commit me so that was it for me. I am taking Xanax for anxiety and Vistaril for sleep. Both help but sometimes the anxiety is just to bad for anything to help. I am curious about something though and I meant to ask this earlier...

Is it normal for a trigger event to occur that causes you to have an anxiety attack that lasts for weeks or even months and can the anxiety snowball out of control (ie; get worse over time) so that you even begin to think that you have the disease you are worried about to the point where you actually KNOW you are going to die?. I mean, you are absolutely CONVINCED that you have it and the more you look symptoms up and think about it, the more you SWEAR that you have at least a few of them or you look them up and soon afterwards you actually start to have them?.

Also, why is it that even if you try to put it out of your mind or tell yourself that you don't really have a disease, the anxiety is STILL there?. Do you ever (or have you ever) felt so bad that you were sure your anxiety was beyond hope). I sometimes come here feeling so bad that I feel like I should be posting on the "about about to die" forum instead of hear. This time around, my anxiety has been especially bad and some of the symptoms are new which is why I'm so freaked out so bad this time around.

Thank's - I am just really freaking out lately and trying to get a good grasp of this thing.