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Old Nov 12, 2006, 10:58 PM
Hopefull Hopefull is offline
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I have been talking to a counselor concerning depression. I am on Lexapro and have discovered that it lowers work anxiety. I used to worry about what my manager thought of me a lot. I want to feel more confident at work but I come off as incompetent because I hesitate too much and say things like, "I think..." when I know something. I have discovered that Lexapro even makes making phone calls at work easier. I still worry about costumers getting mad at me or thinking I'm stupid at times.
I complained to my counselor that I can't recognize faces. She thought it might be social anxiety. I am very unused to hearing her use that word anxiety to describe some of the things that I talk about.
I have to pretend to tell someone that they were rude to me for cutting in fromt of me in line at the grocery store for a class at school. I started crying about this. My classmates think I should do this because of my desire to try to be more assertive. I am good at public speaking. Although Lexapro is confusing me in that I am even calmer for that. I find that weird. I have always been nervous about public speaking. I am used to it and good at it. Its just that I don't like to tell people things like "You were rude to me." I have a hard time asking for more hours at work. I am now finding that I jipper japper at work. I use the anxiety as a reminder to control my tongue. How am I suppjosed to know when to shut up? I think the me with less anxiety talks too much.
I told one of my teachers to let me know if I jipper japper too much. I find that class interesting which makes me talk too much. I had noticed a few years ago when I tried to stop playing with my hair/pushing up my glasses a lot that these behaviors decrease anxiety levels. So I gave up on giving up the behaviors. I mean they don't bother any body. But, I have been wondering if my anxiety is what is messing up my ability to think more positive and act more competent at work. My counselor has tried to encourage me to do some things of lower anxiety. This puzzled me because I do those already. I just can't do the harder stuff. I sometimes get tongue tied when I try to ask my assistant manager for some time to finish a project that I couldn't finish the day before. She thinks its cute. I find it frustrating. Could I have an Social anxiety disorder in addition to depression? I might try asking my doctor about this. But she gets judgemental of me which makes me have trouble thinking clearly.

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Old Nov 16, 2006, 05:59 PM
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Anxiety often comes with depression so I wouldn't be surprised if you have anxiety. I, too, have some feelings of unreality & difficulty comprehending what someone is saying to me when I'm anxious. I had that recently when I was gong to get a facial cuz I had a 1/2 off coupon. Well, she had me fill out some forms & one wanted to know what medications I'm on. I'm on a lot for bp 1 & after I wrote them all down I got really anxious about what she would think of me. I couldn't understand what she was saying. Basically, she told me to go take my shirt off & lie down on the table face-up under the sheet & blanket. I didn't understand & found a shirt on a hook & put that on. I opened the door & asked her if this is what I was supposed to put on. She looked at me strangely & repeated the instructions. Then I asked her if I should be face-up or face-down! Well, duh, for a facial your face needs to be up so she can work on it. It was scary to not comprehend what she was saying to me & kinda forget why I was there--a facial or a massage?

Anxiety can do really weird things! Hope your doc can help you see if you have anxiety. It certainly sounds like it.--Suzy
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Old Nov 17, 2006, 11:40 PM
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Hi Hopeful,
Yes, you could very well have anxiety with your depression. Alot of times, they go hand in hand.
I'm wishing you strength to get through this.
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Old Nov 19, 2006, 05:04 PM
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Yes you do. I think that you should seek help from a qualified psychiatrist immediately. He will deal you out powerful psychiatric medications and everything will be alright I fear. Sometimes I wish that sometimes my psychiatrist would give me a powerful anti psychotic medication and that would maek everything right between me and the world.
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Old Nov 21, 2006, 03:43 AM
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hi .. im new here and im scared because im experiencing hte same symptoms you are but not only when it comes to work ...
i worry about absolutely everything that happens to me including my friends my family and especially the person im dating ...
i get these anxiety attacks and cant sleep at night im not sure what to do ...
are there any self help methods i can use?
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Old Nov 26, 2006, 11:45 PM
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Do you have a counselor/therapist to talk to? Have you always worried a lot or this a new thing? I ask because I started worrying incesantly in November of last year. Once I started talking about a certain problem that I stuck in denial, I went back to my normal level of worry as described above. You might also consider talking to your doctor.
My T mentioned a book on anxiety. But it concerned itself more with social anxiety. If you worry about everything, it might be more like Generalized Anxiety Disorder (everythings got a name-ugg). I am not making a diagnoses of course. So don't take it as one. I'd suggest trying a counselor and having the counselor guide you on some self-help measures. I found some books at the library by looking up social anxiety. But, I'd try a counselor because your's sounds very annoying.
I wish you luck. By the way, one of the books claims that anxiety is highly treatable. I liked that. I hope the book is right on that.
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