Someone who is special to me told me that i should see a doctor just because i feel guilty that my parents is treating me differently(extra caring, extra giving, and extra thoughtful) after i had an anxiety attack and was hospitalized for a day? I dont like what he said, it gave me papercuts inside. I just went into too much depression because of pressure at school and hostile situation, and i dont know how to deal with it that time.

my golden retriever is missing and my black lab is missing him like crazy. it is exactly a week today that it happen and my black lab is crying and acts like she is having an anxiety attack. i dont know what to do. can i give her something to calm her down? what i can i do to help her get through this. i have given her plenty of attention and treats. we have taken her on walks. we r getting a new puppy but that wont be for a few more monthes. we have a little poodle for her to play with but she misses her old pal. my heart is broken and continues to break for my lab please help me get her through this thank u.

i just had a really bad anxiety attack and i just wnated to talk
about it..
i dont know what to do.. for example
this is really really stupid but my boyfriend left my house and didnt have
his phone on him.. and he always calls me as soon as he gets home..
and i waited and he didnt call for like 45 minutes and i called his
house and he wasnt there.. so i got extremely nervous..cause i heard
sirens and stuff so i got scared.. am i just nuts? he ended up stopping
at jim’s steakout and i flipped out. this is gross..but i had to
go to the bathroom right away and it was just so bad.
and like i tried to elave the house cause
when i drive i calm down? wierd? but my parents wouldnt let me cause they treat me like im 12..and im 20. anyways.. anxiety runs in my family..but my parents dont believe that i have it and whatveer i have i just have to bite the bullet and get over it.. but its really taking over my life.. im embarassed to go to the doctor i guess because (1) my parents and (2) im embassred to say i have anxiety..
anyone have advice..

I feel so depressed I feel immobile. I feel drained & don’t have the energy to go anywhere. I have to go to my psychiatric day program but can’t because I’m too depressed, but I’m afraid I’m going to get into trouble or have to suffer consequences if I don’t go. I couldn’t get any sleep. What’s the use of being around people & socializing with people & talking out my problems if no one ever believes anything I say, & people always think I overexaggerate my problems when I don’t? I don’t even want to be around anyone because I’m afraid I may have an anxiety attack, & I don’t want to go to the mental hospital because they treat us like jailbirds & children. I have no freedom there.

Who has had an anxiety attack? What does it feel like when you go through one? How do you treat it without conventional medicine?

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This how it all started. I lost a loved one on Friday. She passed away from meningitis. I was never in contact with her within the time she was diagnosed. But for some reason I thought I had it even after getting treating with antibiotic (Cipro). I constantly researched about the symptoms and every neck pain I get I thought I had it, every headache I got I thought I had it. I’m a nervous wreck right now. I had an anxiety attack too for the first time. I went to the emergency room they admitted me. Gave me some fluids and drew blood everything came back normal. This is the first time I ever lost someone that was close to me so it’s been really stressful. It’s really bad. I haven’t gotten any sleep in three days. The most is about 10-12hrs max. I don’t know what to do. I can’t even sleep. I feel as though if I close my eyes I may not wake up. As I typing I’m feeling jittery and shaky and I feel nervous emotionally down. Can I still be having an attack and if so what can I do to calm myself down. I never experienced anything like this in my life and it all started Friday when my niece passed away. Should I see a therapist or something. Thanks

Recently, I’ve done a lot of reading up on Social Anxiety Disorder and I am fairly certain I suffer from it. I started noticing it about a year ago and it has gotten significantly worse since then, to the point when it has begun to interfere with my everyday life and my ambitious lifestyle. My anxiety occurs mostly in meetings with my fraternity brothers, giving a presentation or answering a question in front of my class, introducing myself to large parties (being put on the spot), or talking to someone I find "important" or intimidating. Strangely enough, getting or giving phone calls to/from people I don’t know well also results in an onset of an anxiety attack.

In these situations, my mind wanders, my heart beats very fast, I sweat a lot, and worst of all (and most noticeably) my facial muscles tense up so that my smile often becomes a twisted half-smile/half-frown. Unfortunately, it has gotten to the point where I try to avoid social situations like those stated above in order to relieve myself of my anxiety attacks. I have tried reasoning with myself but I am getting sick and tired of not being able to grab this debilitating condition by the horns and take my life back . My next semester at college is a HUGE year – I will be the President of my fraternity, I have a good role in a school musical, and I will be beginning my training to become a Physician’s Assistant where I don’t want to be nervously treating patients or appearing anxious in front of peers and professionals.

Can anyone please offer me advice/tips/help?? I am really at wit’s end and will take most suggestions.

…last summer which led me to trouble in eating. I was eating completely normal I was 190 pounds. And I believe that everything started on the day of my birthday after I was wearing a swimsuit I thought it was cute and my godmother told me it was of a old woman. I got really upset, I went crying and lock myself in the bathroom. And start crying and that’s when I remembered that She always been this way with me. Treating me bad, insulting and criticism. And that’s when my first anxiety attack crave in. It was really slow but it did kick in. I couldn’t almost eat one piece of my birthday cake. Then When i got home I could eat. But suddenly it happen again. I thought it was my weight. And the I got better when on October I had the most strange thing happen I got this anxiety attack cause I thought I was going to die while eating a cheesy pop(burger King) and I got nervous they took to the hospital and they didn’t found a thing. And it led me to drink only. I stop eating. I lost 76 pounds
So the next thing I know is that I lost all that weight and I’m still alive but worry that I might get sick. Do I have anorexia? What do you think?
I’m on Boost Plus! So that’s why I’m still alive…
It’s that healthy? I wish I can eat again!!
sorry I’m currently 132 pounds.
I look different none of my high school friends recognize me.

For over a week I’ve been suffering from shortness of breath and chest tightness/pain. I have had past anxiety problems, but I’ve been on Zoloft to treat it, and haven’t had any attacks since I started it over a year ago.
I tried taking Buspirone which normally calms me down, but it only made my breathing more labored. I’ve tried to be unconcerned, but I’ve never had a constant anxiety attack and trouble breathing at all times of the day, and since I’m 3 months post-partum, I’m wondering if it might be a pulmonary embolism? I had some unexplained pain in my left calf muscle about 6 weeks after giving birth, but it went away after an hour or so, and I’ve had no issues other than the current problems.
I took a trip to the ER last night and the did a D-Dimer test and a chest X-ray, but I’m worried that it isn’t enough to completey rule out a problem? Any help would be great!
I was under the impression that a chest x-ray often misses signs of PE and a CT scan is much more effective. Should I contact the internal medicine speiclaist I was referred to tomorrow? I called my OB, but they told me to go to the ER if I was having those sypmtoms…which I’ve already done.
I’d like to not have to wait until some sort of awful symptoms show up.

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What do you do when your best friend gives you a anxiety attack?
My best friend is well…a drama queen and if everything is running smoothly she sturs up some drama to make things more interesting. I was ok with it for a while, but now its just stressing me out. She treats me like an object who can’t hang out with anyone other than her and she is always bringing me down. It got so bad that she made me have an anxiety attack. What should i do?????

On going for about a yr. & getting worse. Not getting straight answers. What is the difference from anxiety attack & hypoglycemic attack? today got home from work, felt cold, off balance, nervouse, nauseaded, felt like almost gonna pass out, I get this all the time. Last wk end rushed to hoptial sugar was 50, got glucose iv. I’ve know to have hypoglycemic but my dr. keeps treating me for anxiety. Not on any pills except for xanax which I only take if these episodes happen. 2nite it last 4 hrs. sick to my stomach, off balance, sick stomach. I ate chicken, noodles & baked beans, put some sugar in some apple juice, but also took 0.25 xanax. Which could it be? driving me crazy can’t go on like this, ate every 3 hrs. today at work. Someone please help me! Use to be on zoloft, lexapro, wellbutrin throughout 3 years & didnt’ like them & gained weight……..who can I go see? Saw family dr. yesterday & just gave me strattera for add, (i am 42 yrs. old) to concentrate.

I don’t know why he did this but it TOTALLY freaked me out, I started to have an anxiety attack and yelled at him to "Get that damned thing away from me, I don’t want to see THAT!!!!!!!!
I mean at least ASK someone’s permission before you do something like that and send them into a panic thinking something’s wrong!!!!
I don’t like surprises…..ever, especially since I suffer from extreme anxiety/ptsd/depression and bi-polar disorder…..mostly because of todays incompetant medical profession!! and how badly i’ve been treated by them.
I guess being raped when I was a teenager, then having a male ob/gyn molest and fondle me holding me down until I was screaming at the top of my lungs for help (no nurse was present in the room.) I’m sure didn’t help matters either.
He came at me with a huge mirror while I was laying on the gyn table….
He came at me with a huge mirror while I was lying on the gyn table, and asked if i wanted to look at my vagina…..WTF????

I don’t know why he did this but it TOTALLY freaked me out, I started to have an anxiety attack and yelled at him to "Get that damned thing away from me, I don’t want to see THAT!!!!!!!!
I mean at least ASK someone’s permission before you do something like that and send them into a panic thinking something’s wrong!!!!
I don’t like surprises…..ever, especially since I suffer from extreme anxiety/ptsd/depression and bi-polar disorder…..mostly because of todays incompetant medical profession!! and how badly i’ve been treated by them.
I guess being raped when I was a teenager, then having a male ob/gyn molest and fondle me holding me down until I was screaming at the top of my lungs for help (no nurse was present in the room.) I’m sure didn’t help matters either.
He came at me with a huge mirror while I was lying on the gyn table, and asked if i wanted to look at my vagina…..WTF????

I went to the hospital for an anxiety attack but don’t really want to take medication for it, because usually i can fight them off. has anyone ever overcome anxiety another way such as with a therapist or psychiatrist? and which one is better to go see?

when I was 19 I had an anxiety attack .I was prescribed xanax . I was on them for awhile but not for long. As life went bye I began having constant nausea and stomach pain. I went through every stomach pill imaginable. Nothing worked and I was in er 4 days out of a week. Finally the doctors took the right path and started treating me for anxiety and depression. After about two weeks evrything was almost great . I had no nausea or stomach pain. I am still doing ok while taking 200mg of zoloft daily. The only trouble is I still have those sudden anxiety attacks . I will be sick for two days until it passes. I have tried everything for the anxiety but nothing works. I want to try xanax again occasionally when I have these attacks but my doctor will not prescribe it . I can never sleep either due to worrying and anxiety and think that xanax might help.

Im 15 and i have alot of anxiety, depression and i have ADHD, when i was 14 i had a perococet addiction but it didnt go far untill my refill ran out.I had my first anxiety attack in school out of no where i breathing fast and felt dizzy. I hated it, can you help me on how to prevent this when i feel it coming on.Also what meds should i ask my doctor to help treat my anxiety and depression. Thanks

I woke up the other night sitting up in bed crying and breathing heavily. Was this a panic/anxiety attack of some kind. I have had attacks during the day recently and am on meds. Could it be the meds?

they make me go from not being depressed, to really depressed. I’ve been on about 4 different antidepressants and they always make my anxiety worse. I just need something to take when i feel an anxiety attack come on. I get about 2-3 per month, especially when I’m really stressed or have alot going on. Any ideas?

I get severe panic/anxiety attacks sometimes. It’s happened a lot more recently, and I’ve went to the doctors to check everything but they said it was okay. Usually I get a slight anxiety attack during school, but it’s not as bad as my severe ones. Anyone know anything I can do to relax myself while getting these? I usually start breathing really fast and somewhat lose breath, I get very hot, and my heart RACES. Anyone know anything that I can do or use to relax myself? Thanks.

Out of no where my body went numb, my head got dizzy and flushed, I was having hot/cold flashes, and I could hear my heart beating like never before. It was insane. It took 1 hour before I could really settle down. I thought I was going to die.

It has been 6 hours since the attack and I am still very tired and I still have a slight headache. Is it normal for me to feel this way after an attack? What are general symptoms after an attack (if this was an anxiety attack).

If you’re curious, I went the clinic right after and had a heart and blood test.

been having anxiety attack/ panic attack like symptom and migrane only when I am trying to fall asleep..or sometimes middle of my sleep.

I visited a doctor. The acupuncturist told me that my lung is like narrow.. that’s why it makes me difficult to like breathe or something, causing the symptoms of attacks when I am laying down..

what causes it? how can I be cured? are there vitamins? or minerals?

so i’m like permanently having an anxiety attack 24/7..my stomach tightens up, my vision changes and how i view everything around me, i feel outside or disconnected with my body and mind, my heart races, headaches, get really hostile and start taking it out on anyone i come across..i just don’t know how to make it all go away. i need some help, some suggestions.

what are the symptoms of a anxiety attack and depression? and what can be doen to be cured? if you know plz advice
thanks for ur respond .. jc u think u can email me so we can talk more about this and you can listen to what’s going on with me and tell me what u think??
omg that exactly what happen sto me i cry and scream non stop i like blank out and cry and cry and cry for no reason and i do seat i get hot and my chest hurts alot this only happen when am arguing with someone or when am lonely

I went to the ER about 2 months ago because of an anxiety attack. He referred me to see a phychologist. He said I’m developing generalized anxiety disorder. I worry all the time about me health because of the anxiety symptoms. I don’t get attacks anymore…I’m just in a state of anxiety all the time. I’ve had a blood test, EKG, and a thyroid test. I have symptoms like chest pain, tingly arms & hands, headache, nausea, dizziness, fatigue etc.

Anxiety attacks?
im 18 years old female and right before i go to sleep sometimes out of know where i’ll start feeling really light headed and dizzy, and my heart rate sometimes will either slow down or speed up, and i’ll be laying in my bed just thinking im going to die cause my heart is going to stop and it scares me. i cant sleep but sooner or later i do fall asleep and wake up feel better. is this a sign of an anxiety attack, cause i do get anxiety all the time.

what can i do so i dont trip out late and night so i can do to sleep without freaking out thinking im going to die and get light headed