#anxiety answer

Oh boy, I’m really sorry but I don’t have much to say here.If you can look to getting a therapist, but they’re usually expensive. If you can’t you can go to a school social worker or councilor, also trained to help kids with anxiety and listen to people.And for when you feel overwhelmed but you can’t go to either there is an app called 7 cups of tea where you can anonymously talk to trained listeners about anxiety and how to deal with it.

Then after the trip remind yourself of all the good things you did and why you went on the trip!If you have anymore questions please message me again!

A friend used to do the exact same thing to me. It hurts a lot and you always remember it. What I can tell you is that with my friend I could tell they didn’t actually have anxiety. It’s not good to just assume people don’t but I’ve don’t lots of research on anxiety and I knew she didn’t have anxiety.Later I found out she was a compulsive liar and lied about all her illnesses and injuries. That’s beside the point.What you should do is educate them. Tell them about anxiety, maybe not your specifically but in general try to teach them about what anxiety is like. Either they will protest and say something along the lines on ‘well not for everyone.’ Or they might listen and think about things. People with anxiety don’t laugh at other people with anxiety because they know how painful it is. Good luck and I hope your issue is resolved quickly.

I really wish I had a better answer for this. It sounds like a compulsion thing to me, something you do out of instinct when you feel anxious. Like for me when I’m in large crowds I stand on my toes, not to see over people but just because i feel the urge to do it.Another thing you might want to look into is low scale Asperger syndrome. That all sounds like part of the lower autistic scale. I’m sorry I wish I could be more help but that’s what sounds most likely to me.If you want to come off anon and message me again I can give you a list of symptoms and behaviors to see if you feel like it fits you but I don’t want to post those symptoms on this blog because Anxiety can be easily mistaken for Aspergers so I really don’t want to make people think they might be on the autistic scale when they’re not. It’s tricky to tell the difference but I definitely think it’s something you should look into.

I was scared of needles for a long time so I understand. I’ll get the easy one out of the way first; when you have a lot of anxiety your body uses up a lot of adrenaline and it gets exhausted a lot. So you need to sleep more than normal.As for the needles I can tell you when I had my first surgery I pretended that the needles were rose thorns. What is important to do is tell the nurses that you have a phobia of needles. Don’t just say “I’m bad with needles” because a lot of people say that and the nurses probably won’t take you seriously. Instead try to say straight up, “I have a phobia of needles and if I see one I’ll ___” with what your reaction is (ex: fainting, panic, nausea). Last thing, depending on the type of sugary they might take blood samples before hand then give you the drugs so be aware of that. If they have it ask for a numbing cream that makes it harder to feel the needle. For me they used a freeze spray that made my skin to cold to feel it but that was probably worse because I’m a wimp for cold things.It will be over before you know it- focus on the things in the room around you instead of the needle and remember it’s very important to tell the nurses/doctors about your phobia.

Yes it sounds like that is physical manifestation of an anxiety attack. People with harsher anxiety tend to experience it more, also people who tried to hind their anxiety will experience more physical symptoms due to them having no outlet (such as talking, crying, pacing, ect.) for their anxiety. If it’s possible, it might be a good idea to live at home while you’re in college.What you definitely do not want to do is trap yourself inside your house, not leaving for anything besides the necessities (food, car repairs, work, ect.) it’s very unhealthy and ‘I’ve been there done that’ and it will not turn out well.Practice leaving your house; going out with friends, staying somewhere else over night, going to a park by yourself, things like that.

It’s common for people with anxiety to feel like the people they love the most will disappear from their lives. I’m not very good at relationships but what I do know is that talking to the people you love and letting them know how you feel will save you so much time and drama. Talk to them and help them to understand you better.