Quote:
Originally Posted by katie80
Hi. My name is Katie. A little history is that I'm 31 and I've been on disability for anxiety/panic disorder for about 6 years. My dad had it since his 20's so I think it's hereditary. My brother was lucky to have it very much then us.
Anyway, I'm here because I was just wondering if anyone has felt the way I'm feeling now. Which is that I will have months where I'm sort of content (even though I have to live life a little differently than other people), but I'm generally ok. Then what seems like all the sudden I'll have huge bouts of anxiety, stress, major depression and what seems to be obsessing a little over irrational worries. And it could last a few weeks or a month.
I know it will pass, like all emotions do, but I just feel so alone because nobody I know except my dad understands. And I can't talk to him about it really because he just gets upset that I'm upset and he can't help.
I don't know. I'm already sort of isolated with this. And when these waves hit I just feel more alone. Just wanted to see if there were others than feel the same.
|
Hi Katie
I can relate very much to how you feel. I used to feel very similar. Like you social anxiety runs in my family. It's learned behaviour and unfortunately I passed it on to my son as well.
I used to have so called good spells for long times, and then something set off the bad spell. After having worked it through things in my head it would be ok again. (unfortunately this bad spell at the moment has stuck with me).
You are not on your own feeling this way. At one stage I took up the guts and started talking to people about the way I felt sometimes, the anxiety coming and hitting me... I was surprised just how many people said... Oh, I have that. It made me feel so much more connected.