Ultralight (EU) - pilot here.
I knew it was coming. Been dragging my feet for months before seeking therapy because I knew I would have to drop this hobby that has given me so much joy. Haven't flown for a few months because I knew I wasn't quite fit for flight. Had my hopes up that I would be in remission when my medical was due for renewal but didn't quite make it and my medical got revoked. I have had low levels of anxiety before but due to stress at work and the pandemic stressing me out it has been worse for a bit.
Apparently it isn't impossible for me to get my medical back, but there is a big risk that I either won't be allowed to take passengers or need a safety pilot with me. Even if i'm 100% cleared by a psych.
Flying has given me so much joy. I feel free when up in the air. I would even say that flying actually helps me feel better. This is now taken away from me.
I do understand why we need medicals, but a safety pilot even when i'm 100% cleared by a psych? Almost makes me wish I hadn't gone to the doc.
Fuck.
I am very panicked about my future because I am worried that I will never be financially independent and I will end up in an arranged marriage situation. I am currently working at a fast food restaurant and I don’t have any other job or volunteering experience. I want to be a therapist but I am also thinking of other career options like nursing or occupational therapy. I got bad grades on several classes and never got to do any internships. I don’t know what to do where to start in life. Living with all these conditions made my life a living hell because I was bullied growing up and had trouble making friends with people. College was painful at times because I would sometimes get very depressed and constantly compared myself to people.
Over the past few months I have finally realized and accepted that all of my issues I have been struggling with for the past 10 years all stem from chronic generalized anxiety disorder. I am currently 23 and have had vague anxiety issues since I was 13. Starting when I was 16, I started feeling a little "off", as in I felt kind of tired and out of it. It was very mild at the time and a full night of sleep would usually help but it would come back within a day or two. The "kind of tired" feeling soon became chronic and very slowly got worse over time. It has now been 7 years since I first started noticing those feelings, and they have not left since. Today the brain fog, mental exhaustion and disconnected feeling is so severe and so chronic it has ruined my life. I tried 4 or 5 anti-depressants just because they were recommended by doctors, but they did not help at all. I was also so convinced it was something physical, and have had virtually every medical test you can think of. All came back perfect, no physical issue. I have a sleep study scheduled for next month, but deep down know that is not the issue, but will do it anyways. I have not had a moment of full clarity in 7+ years. That alone makes me sad and anxious to think about. My GAD is much better the past few months since realizing and recognizing the anxiety and making changes, but the physical symptoms have not budged a bit. I started taking Buspirone 3 weeks ago but haven’t noticed a difference. Any advice?
I have taken lexapro, prozac, Viibryd in the past. my MD wants to start cymbalta. my anxiety and depression has been so bad... can anyone share some positive experiences they've had with cymbalta?
i have intrusive thoughts that generates constant tention 24-7 especially at night with the heart palpitations and im getting sleepless nights, im currently on day 3 taking zoloft and its making me feel worse even though im aware that it takes time to kick in and im worried it wont do nothing and im left with bad side effects. can anyone please give me some feed back with zoloft? do you think it helps?
So I’ve had generalized and social anxiety ever since pre school. It’s definitely genetic in my case and I started getting panic attacks at 20. My dysautonomia symptoms started 6 years ago. I did stress more than usual when my dysautonomia symptoms started and I’m thinking the constant daily long term stress has caused a dysfunction in my autonomic nervous system. What do you guys think? Can there be a correlation between long term daily anxiety and dysautonomia?
Hi! I'm from Portugal, here CBD weed is legal to buy without medical prescription and two days ago I discovered that a restaurant by my apartment has a vending machine which sells CBD weed! It even has moonrocks, I'm not touching that...
I bought a CBD Girl Scout Cookies strain and grinded it on my friend's grinder which he uses (a lot) to grind THC weed... the result was a pure joint of CBD weed with a few THC crystals that came from the grinder.
I have not been capable of smoking any kind of weed because it always triggered severe anxiety or panic attacks... until now!
The result is a high that is not too psychoactive and that relaxes my body, both effects combined allow me to feel a head high to be happy enough to not need to judge the effects of the weed on my body and not triggering a panic attack that way.
The solution is to always grind my CBD weed on my friend's grinder, which he said he will let me, and have the grinded weed catch some THC crystals and roll it on a pure joint! This way I don't even have to smoke with tobacco which I finally managed to quit 4 months ago!
Happy sessions,
left cheek kiss, right cheek kiss.
I have always been a great student back in school. But during further studies I was not the best anymore. And I could not take it. All I did was cry for 2 whole years and be scared of even touching a book. Even thinking about studying made me feel nauseous.And living away from my parents also made it worse.I would actually always have a book in front of me but nothing ever entered my mind. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder by a local psychiatrist. And I went to therapy and was able to pick myself up a little bit. I wasn't able to do that well in the exams due to not studying for 2 years . But I'm not in the worst situation. I got admission in a good enough college. Now I am living away from my parents again. And everything makes me scared. Classes have not even started yet everything makes me feel sick to the stomach. I thought I was over all these feelings. But they're back again. And I don't know what makes me feel so scared . I'm not able to do anything that I like. And making friends is also hard for me because I am very introverted.But I like my two roommates. But I also like to keep to myself. I'm scared I am going to lose them if I don't always talk to them. And I get jealous even if they are talking to each other. I also can't stand the thought of not being the best in my class
How do I deal with all these uncomfortable feelings and just relax?
Just everything I said above. Any questions are welcome as I'm an open book. I look forward to seeing your questions! ☺️
I'm no doctor, and I realize these drugs have many beneficial uses. I especially can imagine them useful in people who have panic attacks, and I'm aware there are many other medical uses for them (like alcohol withdrawal).
But for GAD? I just can't see how they aren't almost the worst thing to give someone. I feel it's almost comparable to giving someone with depression opioids. Yeah it will fix their depression temporarily, but in the long run it will downregulate their receptors either leading to upping the dose, which has to stop somewhere, or them stopping and being even more depressed until the body reaches homeostasis again.
The same, I feel, goes for gaba agonists, well benzo's at least. Yes they will fix your anxiety temporarily, but again your receptors will downregulate (likely overly simplified), and you will either have to increase your dose, which has to stop somewhere, or stop taking them and feel far more anxiety than you did before until you reach homeostasis again.
Am I wrong here? Is there anyone who successfully uses benzo's for GAD?
Also, assuming I'm right, is there any drug that actually can successfully increase gaba or agonize gaba without the body reducing receptors bringing you back to baseline?
I've often wondered about homeostasis in the brain. Like wouldn't it not be brilliant if we could somehow targettly suppress this action so that receptors don't reduce, thus no tolerance building, and have a whole new class of drugs that don't induce withdrawal, require upping doses, end up making things worse.
Is there anyone looking into this? And if so could anyone point me to some information regarding this?
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I (20f) asked this somewhere else and wonder if you guys have questions here too. Ask anything your heart desires and thanks for being curious.
Definitions of my illnesses: Schizoaffective bipolar type (rare)
Borderline personality disorder: Borderline personality disorder (very common)
Generalized anxiety: Generalized anxiety Disorder (very common)
Post traumatic stress disorder: PTSD (very common)
whats the point of living with severe anxiety?
My illness is from military training. I’m prescribed medicinal marijuana. From Canada.
Hello I was just prescribed Prozac for GAD and social anxiety. My anxiety got to the point that I have become afraid to see people I know for fear of them noticing how bad anxiety has gotten especially in social situations with people I know. I get
I have been withdrawn, isolated and depressed for about five years. I used alcohol as a crutch in social situations to relax but that made me really abuse alcohol and become dependent on booze for any type of social situation. I went to rehab and got the alcohol out of my life. But the anxiety problem was still highly present. I would obsess over seeing people in public or socializing without alcohol.
I decided medication and therapy are the best route for me to feel like a normal functioning person again. I pray that Prozac helps me get back to feeling positive about life and able to handle social situations again because anxiety and the thought of social anxiety has ruled my life for years.
Had anyone seen any positive results or similar stories? How has Prozac helped you with general anxiety and social anxiety?
I also have social phobia, social anxiety, panic disorder and ptsd. How will Zoloft help me?
Hi I’m new here and as the title states I have GAD but I think I’m also developing agoraphobia. I can’t think of the last time I went outside by myself just to go outside. When I have a purpose like go to work I can do it because I know I’ll be inside and safe there all day. I can’t go to any store by myself and if I go I’m incredibly anxious and want to leave ASAP. Is this agoraphobia of could this just be part of my gad? I would love to learn more about this disorder and others experiencing.
Is it a good idea to take hydroxzyine daily for GAD?
I know it’s just an antihistamine and isn’t like an antidepressant or anything. I’m being gradually tapered off of clonazepam and taking clonidine 0.1 2x daily for anxiety, seroquel XR 50mg 2x daily and 300mg XR for mood instability, and Hydroxzyine 50mg once daily as I taper off of my midday dose.
My understanding it’s best for PRN. But have you had good experience prescribing Hydroxzyine daily for GAD?
Sex [Male] [height] 5,11. [weight 153] pounds. White. Age 21
3/1 months straight of muscle twitches, asthma flare ups, health anxiety, random moments of feeling weak in the arms fast heart rate subtle chest pain and migraines and dizziness.
I’ve been to the doctors lots of times etc had high blood pressure after consuming multiple energy drinks a day I stopped that I haven’t had an energy drink for 2 months so my high bp went down.
I’m still having heart attack and stroke anxiety even tho my bp isn’t high anymore.
I have covid 19 paranoia right now and the room is spinning even tho I’m vaccinated and I got tested on Friday and revived a negative covid 19 result on Saturday. I’m having intrusive thoughts that make me feel angry and dizzy.
I feel like I’m moving 1000 miles per hour while I’m sitting down and not doing anything. I’ve told my doctors about this I’ve received blood tests my tests detected vitamin D deficiency and subtly high calcium so I’m taking but D pills now.
I have really bad feelings of mental detachment while I’m around people and my legs, chest and entire body start start twitching in the muscles, I’m feeling like my breathing short and I’m constantly seeing little eye stars and floaters.
Can I please have som advice? I keep being told I’m okay but man my body feels weird and so do my thoughts because of it and I’ve been having really bad death anxiety.
It hurts in my chest when I make myself inhale to full capacity and I noticed a cold coming on on Thursday but I didn’t have any issues yesterday so why is it bad all of the sudden now? I’ve been monitoring my bp at home and it’s been averaging at 110/68 -125/80 etc and it’s been the same at the doctors office.
I’ve also reduced sodium out of my diet extremely.
I have to eat every 3-4 hours or my brain believes that my blood sugar will go down and I will faint. And if I don’t stick to specific foods then I will suffer from the anxiety. For example every single morning I eat the exact same food oatmeal yogurt and almonds everything is measured to reach ab 1000calories. If I don’t do this I will get anxiety. Like today instead of eating yogurt I had two oranges, flax and chia seeds. I did this to try to change the food I eat. But it ended up backfiring on me and I now feel anxious and feeling a little DP. Most of my ocd comes from food I am afraid to eat meat because I was vegan for 5 years and I believe that my stomach is now no longer to process meat even tho I been eating chicken once a week with no issues besides high anxiety after consuming it. I also get scared going out on dates because I don’t really eat out and I am only used to eating at places that I am already used to. I just wish I could eat when I’m hungry and not worry about what I put in my mouth.
It's been over 4 months since my miscarriage and I've never felt the same since. Can't even explain how I feel.. it comes and goes but I'm just hoping I'm not alone in this. I've got physical pain and even mental pain. Just hope this feeling passes eventually. 🙏
Hi everyone, I've recently got the sweetest mixed breed pup (guessed around 9 months old) from the shelter. We've had him for 2 weeks and he has had no accidents (housebroken), mostly sleeps, doesn't whine at night when we go into our separate bedroom (I have mild allergies, so he couldn't stay in there with us) has been doing very well with training, etc. However, despite being an overall sweet dog, he has completely sent my generalized anxiety disorder down a spiral.
I overthink everything and I keep thinking through all the what-ifs. What if he senses my anxiety, what if he could do better in another household, what if my heightened anxiety won't allow me to have a pet without always feeling like this, what if we can never travel again because I don't want to abandon him, etc. I feel like I can't leave the house because I would just worry about him. I WFH so I'm with him most times, but I'm subject to depression as well and the pandemic/staying in my house all the time definitely worsens it.
My SO is amazing and helps a lot with dog chores when I start mentally breaking down, but even then I feel I push myself to care for the dog as much as I can. I wake up every morning with heart palpitations since getting him and the physical anxiety has now translated into mental anxiety. I can't eat or rest well, I'm constantly googling training techniques, looking for other people who got better after feeling like this, etc.
I know this is a huge change, but does it get any easier? I've already been in therapy for 2 years and my therapist thinks I can do this, but I'm just so tired of panicking all the time. Every little inconvenience now sends me into a panic attack and I had a lot of this under control before the new dog.
I'm also planned to see a psychiatrist on 12/6, since that was the earliest I could go in, but until then, even Xanax has been unable to help me actually relax. I don't drink caffeine or alcohol for my mental health reasons as well.
Has anyone been in my boat? I love my dog dearly and I just want the anxiety around having him to go away. I'm currently 28 and then I think the whole 10+ year commitment and imagining being like this until 38 also sends me through a spiral. I just want to relax and enjoy this sweet dog.
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Savvy Cooperative is looking for people who have been diagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder (UK residents)
Screener
Details:
60-minute interview
From home
Eligibility criteria:
Adult who has been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
NOTE: Only patients with verified diagnoses will be considered
UK resident
Ages 25-40
Receive:
$100
https://gigs.savvy.coop/gad-opp/?r=602651
