Are there any here who feel cured (or almost) and come for support of others?

[Jonev11]

I have been struggling lately with dizzyness, headaches, and neck tension. I used to have shortness of breath all the time and that symptom has for the most part subsided so i felt like I was getting better. But it seems as though the moment something starts to get better another symptom comes along and beats me down. I was feeling lost and beaten last night which only scared me more. I hold onto a shred of hope that this will all go away and I will be myself once again but the longer an longer it goes the smaller and smaller the hope becomes.

So I guess I am groping for something, an experience with anxiety that someone has beaten, an encouraging story of strength, courage, and happiness at the end. Are there any people here who can do this. I feel that although this may be the lowest a person can feel that if I could beat this it would make me an unbelievably strong person (although I think anyone who faces anxiety like this day after day and still functions and goes on is a strong person). Are there any here who can say "Yes it can be done, I did it"?

[angelavan]

Well I don't know about cured, more like under control. I have had anxiety disorders for 18yrs. The first year was pure hell. I felt like I was going crazy and I was going to die. I would sit in my closet (the darkest place in the house). I was unable to watch tv or listen to the radio because of the noise, and forget about going out to a busy store. Way to much noise. It was like there were thousand of sounds going on in my head. I was on overload. Finally when I was sitting in my closet one day wanting to cut my skin off because it hurt so bad and I felt if I could get my skin off it would not hurt so bad. I knew then I needed to get medication. I have been on meds pretty much since then. I have tried to go off, but each time the same symptoms come back. So I feel normal on meds. I still have days that things do not go right or sad days, but they feel more normal now. Are you on meds? Are you talking w/ a couselor. Sometimes just talking w/ someone helps alot. I hope this has helped.

[Jonev11]

Wow, thank you for replying but that actually made me more scared. I know you did not intend that but I suffer from a little hypochondriasis and hearing how severe your story was only made me imagine myself slipping into a similar situation. I appreciate your story and I wish you well. I know I shouldn't let that stuff bother me but unfortunately it does.

If anyone else replies I guess I should request that the story more addresses how positive you feel instead of how bad it was, especially spare me from the graphic details as they only scare me.

[comeandrelax]

do you feel dizzy constantly? i do. its not so much dizzy but just detattched and out of it and lightheaded. i just started treatment and hopefully it will go away.

[Jonev11]

Originally Posted by comeandrelax

do you feel dizzy constantly? i do. its not so much dizzy but just detattched and out of it and lightheaded. i just started treatment and hopefully it will go away.

I would say what you described is accurate enough for me. It's sometimes dizzy, but more often it feels like I'm hungover and drunk at the same time. You know headache, bodyache mixed with the sensation that the room and my eyes aren't quite "working together" like my head is turning faster than my eyes can focus.


But I was hoping to not get into this kind of stuff. I really was hoping that we could get some uplifting stories instead of focusing on symptoms.