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StillGhood

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Searched and the last posts on anxiety were from 2012.

Mental illness isn't bad and people need to talk and be open about it. I suffer from anxiety now and again but mostly leading up to and at the beginning of a flight. It was really bad in my early 20's to the point where I never went out to party or hang out with friends.

If you suffer from anxiety; please post your story and how you cope

Hopefully this thread can help other suffering as well
 
When you get anxious, swallow three whole ice cubes in quick succession. You will no longer be anxious as your body will be focused on something else entirely. Eventually your problems will just melt away inside you.
 
as corny as it sounds, what helps me is just deep breaths and thinking about one of my favorite days of skiing ever in lake tahoe. I focus in on that, and the anxiety goes away. I get anxious mainly over tests and stuff like that, so it may not be as serious as what you've been going through.
 
Inb4 Marijuana.

But on a serious note when ever I get anxious over something I just try to tell myself it will be okay and to stop worrying about it. I let my mind wonder to me skiing or what I'm going to do tomorrow. That's what always helps me
 
Just remember, nobody cares, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. I can see where you're coming from as I also have some pretty gnarly social anxiety, but when it all comes down to it, nobody's judging you, and if you feel they are, just ignore them. I saw a thread on here a while ago where the member said something along the lines of, "Nobody gives a shit. Where a rainbow coloured shirt, nobody's gonna go out of their way and say 'wow that's a pretty fucking stupid shirt' and if they do, just don't give a fuck about it."

And that shit is fucking truth. Spend your life focusing on you, not people who don't matter, and can't positively influence your life.
 
I used to be really self concious about myself and people judging me. I realized that most of these people I will not ever see in five years so who cares what they think of me. Do whatever makes you happy and live the way you want to. Never think you have to do something to "fit in." I also started working out and lost 55lbs and now it's like I'm a completely different person, I used to be really shy but now I don't even think about it and am way more confident.
 
I realized the difference between being anxious and eager the other day.. one is negative and one is positive /irrelevant
 
You know its funny.... I can give a bit of anecdotal life evidence here.

In Highschool, I was super weird. I still am. I played Dungeons and Dragons, my idea of a party on the weekend was four buddies and network doom/quake, I was completely straight edge and my sense of fashion was not only off, but fucked. I would wear bright turquoise pants with a postal workers shirt and a massive set of beads one day, completely goth the next, and dye my hair every colour of the rainbow on a weekly basis. Shit I'd throw a suit and tie in occasionally just because I felt like it.

I was co-president of the music council, and had a group of traditionally 'nerdy' dudes as buddies. I always classified myself as such, as did the rest of my crew.

Later in life, I see highschool people from time to time. I've even become friends with those that I envied as 'cool' - and in my mind placed them way above my insanity in the social hierarchy.

However... they way they talk about me in Highschool was that they thought I was way cooler than them. Why? Because I did whatever the fuck I pleased, and didn't give a flying rats ass what anyone thought of me. EVERYONE is completely self conscious - even the quarterback of the football team probably has paralyzing self doubt that he doesn't talk about to anyone. When those people see someone truly doing what they please, and truly being confident in who they are and what they're doing - its actually incredibly intimidating.

I was always very much on paper someone who should be an outcast, but at some point in my life I stopped giving a shit and just was whoever the fuck I was and did it with pride.

Funny enough in embracing that fact, I believe I discovered what 'cool' really is. What is cool is being whoever you are, and not giving a fuck what anyone else says.

Its obviously a massive step to get from fear to confidence, but I can assure you that embracing who you are - and remembering that you're awesome - goes a long way in actually having everyone else think that too.

Maybe terrible advice, but fuck it.
 
I get exam anxiety. It doesn't matter how prepared I am, or how confident I feel about it, I can not sleep before an exam. I do not feel worried or nervous, just anxious. In fact the less I prepare, the better I generally sleep. I once missed an exam due to no sleep at all, a week later I was given a pop-exam by my prof and aced it.

zopiclone has solved these problems. Fortunately I only really have a few exams left to write in my life, although the last one is always the biggest...
 
If it's anything that I'm getting worked up about that's social I just tell myself, "Fuck it, it's not going to kill me," and proceed with whatever I was going to do. I'm still working on trying to not give a shit and get myself all worked up over pointless things.
 
Drugs are awesome for anxiety. I used to HATE going to the dentist, having someone else's finger's in my mouth just drives me nuts. The one day I found out that it's socially acceptable, not to mention legal, to sit in the dentists office and be high for an hour. Now I don't postpone going to the dentist, I show up on time, pop on the headphones and tell the hygienist to turn it up to 11.

 
But seriously if you're doing something that makes you anxious and for good reason, and you'd be better off not being anxious, just take a chill pill.

As long as you're not relying on it consistantly there's no harm and it'll save you a lot of angst.

 
+K for real advice and sincere stories.

Wish people could take a thread seriously once in a while. This is a real concern for many of us and it's not a joke. Anxiety can be debilitating and unless you've been through it, you have no idea.
 
I feel u. I have anxiety about trying things when skiing. It prevents me from committing to a trick and it makes me feel like shit when I want to do something, but I cant. even though i have only skied one full season and havent done much, I realized that once u try something even if u fail bad u feel good about at least trying something and even after failing when trying something new, ur confidence is boosted.

 
Well here we go, I was diagnosed with anxiety 4 years ago, but I'm pretty sure I've had it my whole life. It got really bad when I started college. Strange enough I don't really have any social anxiety at all, I'm super outgoing, usually the party starter and I wear my favorite pair of gold spandex about once a month. However I have horrible anxiety. I've had multiple panic attacks and let me tell you they are awful, you can't breathe, I usually start sobbing uncontrollably and can't stop, and it feels like someone is sitting on my chest. I have Xanax which I try not to take because it just makes me sleep and I don't want to live my life in a trance, so I only take it if I'm having a panic attack and it helps calm me down. The problem for me is that I over think EVERYTHING. No matter how big or how small, I hear something in my car I think the worst, I cannot walk around my house in the dark I'm afraid someone is going to jump out and murder me, and the worst of it all is that it has made me a hypochondriac in the worst way. And the worst of it all is that I get physically sick when I get too anxious, I get tremors,nauseas and chest pains, but I have to just remember that I'm not actually sick that it's just my anxiety. Normal people look at what I just said and those are all completely irrational things, but to me I know that those things are completely irrational, but I can't help it. Deep breathing helps a lot. I try to be out and about a lot as it helps me not just sit around and think about shit. This was more of a ramble, but if you need advice or someone to talk to just shoot me a message.

Also, this week has been the worst. I'm moving across the country on Sunday and I'm so excited and nervous that my anxiety has been at like an all time high. Sleeping has been really difficult and I'm slightly worried that it's going to get worse and worse as the trip gets closer.
 
Coming from the guy that sent me 14 PMs back to back because he thought I was cool and wanted to hang out. I can't imagine you trying to even talk to a girl, and not come off as a stalker. Maybe you can use your IQ of 40 and attempt to read, and comprehend a book about human social interaction. Just make sure to shoot up your control the amount of heroin first so you feel at ease I wouldn't want you getting anxious.
 
Let me that rephrase that, everyone suffers from Anxiety one way or another, but how you can make it control your life is beyond me. If your scared of talking to people, go take a friend with you and try saying hi to a new person everyday. If your going to sit there, and let you being scared, keep you away from things you like, and the only way you can get better is by taking pills. I don't know how you can go through life and be ok with that. You can meet fear head on its like a ski trick, it looks hard you can get hurt, but then you land it and say wow that wasn't bad at all. Or maybe you mess up, fall on your head (on snow not ice)almost kill yourself, wake up out of a coma after have two holes drilled in your head. And you get up and try again. After coming that close to death you realize there's no point sitting in your bed fearing things or feeling sorry for yourself.
 
Say what?
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The really sad thing if you're poor and without health insurance or just uneducated about what medicines exist and you smoke weed for the same effect, go directly to jail, do not pass go and do not collect 200 dollars.
 
I've had anxiety issues for as long as I can remember. I never really had any problems with it until I started smoking weed a lot, I started off by just using weed to calm down but now it doesn't do anything and i'm kinda rethinking this strategy.
 
That's what the multi- billion dollar prescription pill industry wants you to think. Dont beleive all the hype and commercials. Plenty of great ideas in here besides resorting to medication. I'm not going to doubt some people MAY need it, but, plenty of other methods to try.
 
To each their own. For me, weed makes things SO MUCH WORSE. I never had anxiety until I started smoking. Last year I would smoke almost every day and that started a three or four month downward spiral. By the end of it I had such bad anxiety and was so depressed I wanted to kill myself. Now I smoke maybe once or twice a month and I feel so much better.
 
Yup totally agree. I love the maryjanes, but, it made me more anxious than anything. I'm not hating on its medicinal use but the anxiety one is made up to get support. That's my pseudo science and lots of ppl agree
 
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I agree with your post on benzos as well. They certainly help in the short run but they aren't addressing the underlying problem. People need to work through their problems with counselling, not just taking a pill to cover up the symptoms.
 
It's not about need. You have headache you take an advil or just sack up and deal with it, you have a headache every other day for a week, you go to the doctor and try and fix the underlying problem. Doesn't make the original advil a bad choice. People treat symptoms all the time, often for comfort rather than absolute necessity.
 
So what's your point though? An advil is not always the right answer either. A lot of times a headache comes from a deficiency or dehydration. But commercials and lack of knowledge leads to taking a pain reliever. I'm not a doctor by anymeans. Call it pseudo science. But, there are usually ways to avoid over medicating. Just remember $$$$$$$ rules all. 
 
Anxiety can be legit, but most of the time its self fabricated. Its just paranoid assessments with no evidence to back it outside that particular persons brain.

It's alot like fear and guilt, because its something you dwell on yourself but your not going to let anyone on because of possible painful outcomes.

Another obvious example would be getting a pimple thats visible that bugs the hell out of you and makes you self conscious, but in reality nobody normally pays attention enough to care and most of the time you would have to point it out to be noticed.

We are the biggest critics of ourselves, unless your a douche bag
 
This right here is brilliance. Smoked more than once a day for 2 years and anytime i had to do a presentation for school, work, or had a one on one meeting It would make the day wicked stressful and anxiety would rage. Without the cannabis life has slowed down and everything is seen clearly. a school project is now a joke, people can't present without saying, uhhm, or like, or stuttering. even stoned my presentations were okay, clear and to the point but I would just become super lightheaded and would almost faint. my last 10 min speech was the easiest thing ive done in college and I enjoyed it. Medicinal cannabis is great, and congrats to Colorado, Washington and the country of Uruguay for making it recreationally legal. It does nothing for anxiety though
 
I get it in waves. I'll get stomach aches and sometimes get nausea. I just get to thinking about things like life after college and it just goes from there. Sometimes I get headaches too. Weed makes it better and worse, just depends on the day. Skiing and working on my car are really two of the few things that help me with it. I hate when people knock it without knowing how it feels. Sometimes it shifts into depression for me as well.
 
This thread has some shitstorm elements brewing. For some reason that was enough to rope me into posting something serious.

Had severe anxiety. About pretty much everything and nothing. To the point where I would be freaking out doing simple things like walking.

Still have bad anxiety but I managed to curb a good amount of it. Also turned into a pretty damn social person. Weird(always was a bit I guess) but very social. My anxiety doesn't go away but I tried to challenge it a bit. At some point I made a conscious effort to challenge it. Anxiety about walking into a store, the bank, calling people whatever. Just tried to force myself to do things that terrified me for no reason. Def got a lot better at some things. Don't think it'll get much better than it is but it's manageable.

I think you get to a point where you know yourself enough that it's manageable. Once in a while I'll get it super intense and it's scary as fuck, always hope those times happen when I'm relatively close to or at home. Haven't bee as often recently.

I try and keep a purpose in life and hang in there. That's the best I can do.
 
Its not my fault you have no reading comprehension. There was a GIANT SEE WHAT I DID THERE at the end of my post right after I said you copy and pasted a two year old post from another form, which you did, so I did the same thing. You then assumed I wrote it and I never said any such thing, I said you just copied it, so that was on you. After the 4th time you message someone and they ignore you, you gotta let it go man.
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I never said I was any member of a physics form you did.
 
No I stated you made one post 2 years ago to try and sound smart, and you now copy and paste it everywhere, because remember you can't catch lighting in a bottle twice.
 
Oh my fucking god, shut the fuck up! No one gives a shit about a fucking physics website or about falling on some fucking ice.
 
If you are ever feeling anxious for no reason real reason or seem more agitated by things that you used to be fine with look into the bigger picture. If you are heading down a path or in a place where you subconsciously know isn't right for you, may that be in school for a certain program or a certain career or in a new relationship your body will make you feel anxious about little things or irrelevant things, anything it can do to tuck you away into safety and out of the world.

Also it is important that in cases of anxiousness, especially extreme anxiousness/panic that you don't abandon the situation. If you run it will only get worse. You develop a fear of what you felt and the circle will continue until that situation immobilizes you completely.

Finally exercise, especially daily, is a very good way to combat anxiety.

So more or less, as the boxing tip goes, keep your head up, hands up and feet moving.

From someone who successfully told anxiety to fuck themselves.
 
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