Topic : 05/27 What Do You Fear?

I belong to a support group...Recovery International... which helps with this subject. I have had anxiety problems for half of my life. Therapy, medication, and the support group all work together, so that I am functioning really well now.

See website www.recovery-inc.org for more information.

Hope you all can find a balance in your lives.

Luck to all.

I was in a car accident last year and I was the first car in a 3 car accident and now everytime i am out driving if a vehicle gets too cllose to the rear of my car i start panicking and i feel nauseous untill the lite changes to green and i can go. My daughter has told really bad lies and i fear that she will cost me my son.

I think she has a major Panic disorder (like I did once) and that is causing her to fear almost everything.  She should see a psychiatrist and maybe go on meds if needed for Panic/Anxiety.  All those fears may not really be there.  When I had Panic disorder I was like her and feared everything.  I even got argoraphobic and couldn't leave the house.  Once I was treated for the disorder, I got my life back.

Hi, I am a 25 year old stay at home mother of a 2 year old.  I have suffered from the exact same anxities as Kathleen.  I actually dropped out of college because I would have to pull over 2-3 times on the drive over there and it was only a 15 minute drive.  I even would go sit in the hospital emergency waiting room just in case something would happen to me.  Everything Kathleen said was exactly the way I use to feel.  I even would call 911 if my heart rate would go up and I've had numerous cat scans and mri's in case there was a tumor or anurism.  However, I started to go to therapy because when my son was born 2 years ago I couldn't take care of him.  I was in a constant state of panic.  I haven't had a panic attack in a year now and I don't fear anything anymore. I take  medication and laugh at my silly anxiety thoughts now.  It is not worth going thru life afraid of everything.  Stuff happens, even death, but you can't worry about what might happen and miss the stuff that is happening.

Julie

and unlike ,all the people she has in her life to be there for her,I don't have any family or friends to help me ,my daughter is 23 yrs old but she is very selfish like alot of people out there and isn't concerned about my well being! The 2 people I ever loved in my whole life aren't available for me ! My bf chooses crack cocaine over me whenever we had a fight about it he would always leave me, he now works and lives out of town and isn't even talking to me ! I'm so sick of all these selfish people out there ,I'm just the opposite I always think of others before myself , which now I'm trying not too !

 But it's hard to be that way with the people I love. I've cried oceans over my boyfriend !