How can I stop obsessing and get these thoughts out of my mind? - Mental Health Message Board

Scanner555 · 07-10-2008, 05:56 PM

I am 23 and suffer from anxiety . I was on effexor XR and now am off it, as I don't like meds. Reason for meds has gone away(chest pains), or I can deal, but those reasons are just replaced with others. Such as I was put on the meds to stop chest and other pains, which helped. After about 2 years on the meds and I knew I wasn't going to die, I was able to ween off them completely. Which gave me alot more energy.

So then it was obsessing about impending doom and illness.

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I have trouble sleeping and going outdoors. I am in a state of constant worrying and obsessions. I constantly question myself and its really bad.

Please be honest with me, and thank you for reading and helping.

Scanner555 · 07-10-2008, 06:00 PM

Also

I was thinking of seeing either a Psychiatrist or Psychologist, as I think this may be a mental illness even OCD. Which would be best for me Psychiatrist or Psychologist that is?

hope for peace · 07-14-2008, 04:14 PM

I would love the anser to this question. I can't stop the worring about my kids , selling the house . Having to spen sacving because house won't sell and we moved etc etc. I have been told to journal .. whenI wake up write it in a book and then go to sleep again. It works for some but not me. I am starting to feel this is my destiny to be depressed and anxious