Overwhelming feeling of dread

wushuduck · Aug 05, 2014 at 06:17 PM

Does anyone get this? Where you have a constant pit in your stomach and you can't bare to think into the future. Is this a part of depression or is it anxiety?

Notoriousglo · Aug 05, 2014 at 06:23 PM

Yep..all of the time. I don't know what it is.

brainhi · Aug 06, 2014 at 02:16 AM

I can be both. Anxiety and depression are my battles. I'm never really sure if it starts out as anxiety and then I run my brain down to depression. Or if it's reversed. And both together - I believe in many cases they both go hand in hand. I went thru a really rough period a couple months back (and could not pull myself out of it) - we changed my medication a bit so I could get through - the anxiety was kicking my butt. That helped me - I still tackle the same challenges but I can take care of them without that dread in the pit of my stomach

Aug 06, 2014 at 07:40 PM

YES. I have it all the time. Sometimes (mornings) worse than others. My p-doc refers to it (in my case) as "negative hypo-mania." I dunno...it's anxiety or depression or something caused by haywire neurochemicals and stress overload.

Werewoman · Aug 06, 2014 at 11:03 PM

I can't remember when I didn't have that feeling. Mine is definitely anxiety. Once, during an EMDR session, my T asked me to envision what it looked like, and the first image that popped into my mind was a black rotten walnut with an evil face.

After that, one day my T shows up for my session and gives me a black rotten walnut she found. I carry it with me everywhere I go and look forward to the day when I can let go of it and smash it with a hammer. My hope is that when I do that, it means I don't need to feel that way anymore.

The_Berry · Oct 29, 2017 at 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Notoriousglo

Yep..all of the time. I don't know what it is.

How do you cope. I don't know what to do. I feel like I've been told I'm going to hell or something. It feels so real. I always have it to varying degrees. I can never forget it.

Sunflower123 · Oct 30, 2017 at 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Berry

How do you cope. I don't know what to do. I feel like I've been told I'm going to hell or something. It feels so real. I always have it to varying degrees. I can never forget it.

Do you take meditacation or therapy to give you some relief? I suffer from this sometimes. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety or depression but it’s awful.

*Laurie* · Oct 30, 2017 at 09:27 AM

This thread is 3 years old.

Anyway, that 'dread' feeling is absolutely horrible and is anxiety/depression...and could also be a dysphoric hypomania, as someone mentioned.

Werewoman · Oct 30, 2017 at 10:14 AM

What difference does it make how old a thread is, especially since the topic is still relevant?

rjdb · Oct 30, 2017 at 11:00 AM

I get this often. I believe it is the assumption that something bad has to happen. If you have been doing a lot of good things lately, taking care of your problems, making progress, you have a underlying assumption that something bad has to happen. My therapist said that this is a way that we attempt to control the unknown way in which bad things happen.

This often manifests itself as assuming something physical will happen. My uncle had a cardiac arrest at 42, out of nowhere. The arbitrary randomness of it was very frightening to me, because he seemed to be getting his life under control. There is no scientific basis for thinking that the same will happen to me when I start to get my life in order, but the fear remains.

Nov 01, 2017 at 11:36 AM

I've had it too. From my experience, I think it's my body fearing something in my life whether it's about work or at home.

DowdyTheFifth · Nov 04, 2017 at 10:36 PM

I have this as well, I am constantly worried something is going to go wrong, where I assume it has to go wrong just because of how my anxiety and depression make me feel. This persistent feeling of worry and dread makes me super-aware of my surroundings, the best I can describe it is as hyper-vigilance. This feeling is very taxing on the mind at least for me.

WoundedGirl · Nov 05, 2017 at 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by wushuduck

Does anyone get this? Where you have a constant pit in your stomach and you can't bare to think into the future. Is this a part of depression or is it anxiety?

When it happens like that me I think it’s dymptoms of both.

Hope it gets better. I’ve really been trying hard to work on mindfulness exercises while I go through some personal hell issues and I cannot believe how much it helps to get rid of that pit.

Good luck!!

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wushuduck Member Member Since Sep 2013 Posts: 264 10 3 hugs given	Aug 05, 2014 at 06:17 PM #1 Does anyone get this? Where you have a constant pit in your stomach and you can't bare to think into the future. Is this a part of depression or is it anxiety?
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Notoriousglo Member Member Since Jul 2014 Location: Maryland Posts: 292 9 94 hugs given	Aug 05, 2014 at 06:23 PM #2 Yep..all of the time. I don't know what it is. __________________ A careless father's careful daughter...
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Anonymous100125 Guest Posts: n/a	Aug 06, 2014 at 07:40 PM #4 YES. I have it all the time. Sometimes (mornings) worse than others. My p-doc refers to it (in my case) as "negative hypo-mania." I dunno...it's anxiety or depression or something caused by haywire neurochemicals and stress overload.
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Laurie Account Suspended Member Since Jan 2015 Location: California Uber Alles Posts: 9,150 (SuperPoster!) 9 5,382 hugs given	Oct 30, 2017 at 09:27 AM #8 This thread is 3 years old. Anyway, that 'dread' feeling is absolutely horrible and is anxiety/depression...and could also be a dysphoric hypomania, as someone mentioned.
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Werewoman Poohbah Member Since May 2014 Location: Betelgeuse Posts: 1,472 9 1,217 hugs given	Oct 30, 2017 at 10:14 AM #9 What difference does it make how old a thread is, especially since the topic is still relevant? __________________ You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~ Robin Williams Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? ~ Pink Floyd
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Anonymous41120 Guest Posts: n/a	Nov 01, 2017 at 11:36 AM #11 I've had it too. From my experience, I think it's my body fearing something in my life whether it's about work or at home.
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DowdyTheFifth Member Member Since Nov 2017 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 335 6 234 hugs given	Nov 04, 2017 at 10:36 PM #12 I have this as well, I am constantly worried something is going to go wrong, where I assume it has to go wrong just because of how my anxiety and depression make me feel. This persistent feeling of worry and dread makes me super-aware of my surroundings, the best I can describe it is as hyper-vigilance. This feeling is very taxing on the mind at least for me.
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