recruit more anxiety sufferers!

I would like to see more people suffering from anxiety become members of this board. Maybe they just havent found this website yet! I'm going to do some searching and try and find some.

The board has 38,000+ members plus the public wandering through; that's not enough? :-) We need more participants or posters, not such an easy thing to get.

What are we going to do with more?

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The board has 38,000+ members plus the public wandering through; that's not enough? :-) We need more participants or posters, not such an easy thing to get.

What are we going to do with more?

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We'll treat them all with kindness and respect and with supportive posts as we always do!


sabby

Yes, but I want a sit-in or protest or trade show of anxiety sufferers. That's it; we need a gathering with classes, etc. Oh, looks like Anxiety Disorders Association of America is doing that?

http://www.adaa.org/

We could all go to the Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia in March and meet one another, wouldn't that be cool! And they have "Triumph" bands!

https://www.adaa.org/triumph/triumph.cfm

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We could all go to the Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia in March and meet one another, wouldn't that be cool!

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I think this event sounds hillarious! So much so that I can't believe such an event happens. All I can hear in my head is people saying, "I can't handle crowds," "I'm afraid of big rooms," "travel stresses me out," etc.

That said, if they put the ocd crowd in charge of it, I bet it's incredibly well organized and very clean.

(btw, I have ocd and anxiety so I'm making fun of myself here, not other people).

As for the other, I think a lot of people post here but we'll never have the numbers that depression has.

Cyran0

I'm GAD so I'd just be "generally" useful/unuseful :-)

lol okay yeah maybe people just need to post more. So many members, yet not to many postings!

YellowApple, have you played with your Profile/Display yet? All the posts that ever there were are there for several years. You might just have yours set to only go back a week or month? It's true this forum doesn't have as much quantity as the Depression one but the quality is much better

well... I could go off my meds... and then you would have plenty of posts from me...

seriously....I do have anxiety... alot of anxiety... but tend to post more in the DID and ED forum..

I am going to w/d from one of my meds in the near future.. so you will probably be getting plenty of postings from me... though I hope not...

grrrrrrrrrrrrr... don't want to go off the med... but need to...

OK, I'll post, too. I have been up and down Anxiety Lane, made stops at GAD, OCD, PA and other places.

For me, though, it's the depression that's entwined with the anxiety that has been the scariest and most threatening to my overall health, so I, too, have tended to follow the Depression board more closely.

But it's really "chicken and the egg:" which came first? Don't know.

Kabluie, I saw the PA and wondered what Pennsylvania had to do with anxiety

Yes, it's hard when one is both depressed and anxious. I don't miss being depressed (my youth). It's nice being "older" too and retired so not being quite as depressed anymore either because I don't have to "perform" and I've had more experience in life, etc.

Wow depression and anxiety? I can't even imagine. My heart goes out to anyone who has to battle both those ugly monsters at the same time. Its hard enough managing just one!

> Wow depression and anxiety? I can't even imagine. My heart goes out to anyone who has to battle both those ugly monsters at the same time. Its hard enough managing
> just one!

How about both of them and other things too? Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (and having to deal with multiple sets of symptoms).

I'll check in. I haven't been very active in posting on the boards, but I have been reading alot. I think I'll try to post more often. I always read the anxiety section. Many of my issues have manifested themselves as anxiety issues. I have major trouble with panic, social anxiety, and general anxiety. I have also been battling depression that has become very severe over the last year. It all seems to be rooted in the fact that I am bipolar. One day at a time !

The anxiety issues cause me to just want to stay at home curled up on the couch. Unfortunately, that isn't paying the bills. I just got rejected on my first attempt at SS disability. Now I am feeling the pressure to be successful at work.

Anyway, I always find it helpful to share these issues with others that have similar problems. I will try to post more often in all forums, but expecially here. I can always offer ((((((( hugs to all )))))))).

Jeff

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OK, I'll post, too. I have been up and down Anxiety Lane, made stops at GAD, OCD, PA

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lol. I read this as general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and Pennsylvania. Why I find that so funny, I don't know.

Yup, my anxiety is exactly why I struggle with depression. I get overwhelmed, burn out, and crash.

And while I try not to serve chicken and eggs together, I would generally eat the egg first.

Cyran0

you know, the main reason i don't post in anxiety much is because im so...ANXIOUS that i will have a panic attack from reading about all the anxiety

Yeah so many times anxiety can be part of something else.

I was treated for depression for years. Then I quit smoking and from the ashes rose my anxiety. In the midst of learning to deal with both depression and anxiety and wondering why I could suffer each very intensely and for sometimes short periods, like hours, came the diagnosis Borderline personality disorder.

Honestly, when I'm really anxious I tend to not be able to sit at the comuter long--gotta move!

havent posted for a while on here, but thought Id join this one. I have suffered anxiety my entire life, but have only begun addressing the deeper issues a couple of years ago, when the anxiety turned into depression. Is there really an anxiety conference - that would be hilarious wouldnt it! A bunch of anxiety sufferers discussing their anxiety!! Very calming!

I thought I'd share an interesting part of my anxiety history.

I didn't begin receiving treatment for my anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder) until I was in my mid-20s and out of college. But I dealt with anxiety throughout college so much so that I barely graduated. One of the main sources of anxiety for me was exams or sometimes called performance anxiety. I even passed out once in a math class during an exam. But get this..

I took a public speaking course in college and received an A in the course. I even gave a speech about having an anxiety disorder! I have never understood how this could happen because when I'm standing in from of a class especially for a grade I am definitely being evaluated. Public speaking is one of those things many people fear but I can get up and do it without even thinking.

That is really weird turtle! I'm GAD too and remember my public speaking course and how I decided for one speech I was just going to have notes and talk from them instead of reading my speech and I got up there and froze and just had to sit down; the teacher was saying, "that's okay, just take a deep breath and start over" and I'm saying, "I want to sit down! I want to sit down!" LOL.

But I also remember the evaluations in that class and the teacher had written that I was standing with my legs too far apart. That was back in the days where we still had to wear skirts/dresses to class and I was mortified for some reason. Criticism/evaluation sure doesn't make us feel better.

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In the midst of learning to deal with both depression and anxiety and wondering why I could suffer each very intensely and for sometimes short periods, like hours, came the diagnosis Borderline personality disorder.

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Well ok, that worries me. Because those are my symptoms and I've never been diagnosed bpd. Can you tell me more about how that diagnosis relates to those symptoms?

Cyran0

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Wow depression and anxiety? I can't even imagine. My heart goes out to anyone who has to battle both those ugly monsters at the same time. Its hard enough managing just one!

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Hi, BalishBun and everyone!

I haven't been here in a long time. For the last year I've been in the process of filing for disability and now waiting on a decision. That in and of itself is depressing and anxiety-laden.

Anyway, my original diagnosis 15 years ago was Major Depression, Recurrent. Over the years the depressive episodes recurred more frequently and lasted longer until I was then diagnosed as Bipolor II.

More recently, however, I realized that although the depressive episodes are horrid, they come and go. It is the anxiety that is persistent and pervasive and the main reason I have not been able to return to work (or do much else). After about a year of trying to relay this to my pdoc, he has finally added it to the dx and, as of my visit this past week, am being actively treated for the anxiety.

well seems everyone else is posted so i may as well. i have it to along with depression and agoraphobia i cant leave the house much i freak out totally so i stay on here

This is not relevant, but every time I see the subject of this thread I have to smile. We need more anxiety sufferers! Even if we have to recruit them from the ranks of those who don't!

I've been told i suffer from anixiety. Not that i really needed to be told. Theres also depression and maybe a little OCD. oh... and ADD. It can be lame sometimes.