Anxiety - we all listen to "Frontier Psychiatrist" on continuous loop

marty_0001

This past month I have been having these breathing difficulties where I would feel a little tight around the chest. And when I went to bed at night, sometimes my heart felt like it was trying to punch my ribcage once every five minutes over the course of an hour or two. During the day I would feel really weak, but not exactly tired in the sense of being sleepy.

So I went to the doctor, and after a chest xray he felt that there was nothing obviously wrong with me. Instead he chalked it up to mild anxiety. Especially the muscle fatigue, which he expects was just a paranoid reaction to what was happening in my chest. I was pretty damn skeptical as usually I am Sunglasses McCool about Issues and Drama, but he said it can be the sort of things that aren't obviously worrying you. Then after having an argument with my dad about what he thought the problem was I started having the breathing issues again so that's pretty much confirmed it for me.

The doctor said I should try doing some new things and breaking out of my routine, and if that didn't work after a month then I should go back and see him, which I assume means pills, which I don't want to take

Anyway I know everyone on this forum is a basketcase, tell me about your problems so that I can feel better.

Lord Dave

You should get a second opinion, because it's probably cancer.

Blake T

Have you ever thought you should just chill out man?

Macro9

Lord Dave wrote: »

You should get a second opinion, because it's probably cancer.

That's what I was thinking too.

Could always be ALS, though. The heavy breathing could just be from having pussy lungs.

Zonugal

Thursday while operating as the technical director for our campus news program I started having panic attacks. We faded to black and I put my mouth into my hands and just started breathing heavily for a couple of minutes.

It was bad...

redhead

gonna get myself some antianxiety drugs a week from now

i am not allowing myself to outright hope for big things but man wouldn't that be nice

Blake T

I was trying to decide if the fact I wanted to vomit this was from stress or not just feeling well this morning. Since now I just feel kinda crappy I have decided to ignore and push it further down like all high functioning alcoholics like to do.

Muse Among Men

Heh, I've had something pretty similar actually. I'd describe the pains are sharper and coming in bursts though, as opposed to persistent pain.

Zonugal

Blake I feel we have the same problem.

That being people accusing us of having alcoholism.

How dare they...

Muse Among Men

You know what is making me anxious? This fucking homework. Fuck it, I am turning it in late, she asked for a lot this weekend and my grades are already lackluster.

FrylockHolmes

it's 4 am and I'm not really anywhere close to done with this lab report

not really stressed though

just tired

marty_0001

Whaddya know, the answer was inside me all along!

glug glug glug

Macro9

Guys just need to pay me to do your homework.

I guarantee my product.

there is no product

ASimPerson

Obligatory:

Kusuguttai

for me it's ankles. ankles make me anxious.

Zonugal

So this upcoming week I'll be stepping into four to seven intro philosophy courses to try to convince the freshmen in them to think about joining our major.

I have to start preparing to walk the line between edgy and offensive...

Mr Fuzzbutt

I was just hanging out some washing and the pegs in the peg basket were covered in earwigs.

Umaro

I can't get my sleep routine together. I sleep until 5 pm every day... sometimes I wake up a lot earlier but I can't bring myself to get out of bed. So I 'wake up', eat dinner, then lie around until 10 am, at which point I'm tired enough to pass out again. Been doing this for almost a year now. Bluh.

Regrettable

I got put on pills for anxiety a couple weeks ago, they seem to be working ok, I'm also doing plenty of other stuff though.

Your doctor's probably right, that tight feeling in the chest like you can't breathe because your lungs are already full of air is a pretty dang common symptom, breathing exercises help a lot.

Hacksaw

I get anxious when I stop and actually think about the direction my life is going right now. I try not to do that so much. It helps.

Doobh

Oh boy, is this the thread for me. Fortunately, my mood's been in a sort of upswing, lately, so I'm not currently dealing with too many major anxiety issues. Well, besides social anxiety. Always the social. Still haven't figured out how I did as well as I did during PAX.

It's the worst thing not being able to sleep some nights because I'm worried about some distant due date, bills, or a pay check I don't have yet but am worried it wont arrive on time, for whatever reason. And those are the easy ones to deal with; the most rational of the anxieties.

Hunter

You people confuse me. The only emotion I use on a regular basis is anger.

Josiah_9

Hunter wrote: »

You people confuse me. The only emotion I use on a regular basis is anger.

Just imagine all that anger was replaced with fear. Fear that you can intellectually you know is irrational, but brain problems are not rational.

Now you have anxiety.

Squall

I've been under some stress lately from my fantastic new ability to not get any school work done in any reasonable amount of time

really all it's doing is sucking away my leisure time and replacing it with blank stares at a textbook all weekend, minor distractions, and self-loathing

gotta deal with it, shouldn't be as big a problem as I'm making it

Swill

squall pax seems to honestly be a place where everyone can chill out and be a functional nice person

it isn't even pretending either

also i know that game fellas, but this thread is still ridic

"you know what makes me happy? happiness"

Swill

god i am so late to this ceelo phase where everyone just listens to fuck you on repeat

Squall

did you intend that first bit for dubh?

Mr Fuzzbutt

Swill wrote: »

squall pax seems to honestly be a place where everyone can chill out and be a functional nice person

it isn't even pretending either

also i know that game fellas, but this thread is still ridic

"you know what makes me happy? happiness"

"You know what gives me a boner?"

Swill

that is a reasonable mistake to make!

especially since you two were inseparable during pax

Swill

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

Swill wrote: »

squall pax seems to honestly be a place where everyone can chill out and be a functional nice person

it isn't even pretending either

also i know that game fellas, but this thread is still ridic

"you know what makes me happy? happiness"

"You know what gives me a boner?"

bonin'

bonin' gives me a boner

you don't want to know what gives me erections

Squall

Swill wrote: »

that is a reasonable mistake to make!

especially since you two were inseparable during pax

quick

which one of us had the goatee

no checking facebook

Swill

i think it was you

god this is embarassing

EidolonOrpheus

I have anxiety issues. When I think too much about things that are about to happen or that I need to finish/be prepared for, I feel like my body just wants to get rid of everything inside it.

Squall

:x

not as bad a nuka, who, a week after pax, completely forgot I was there despite us hanging out on two nights and sitting across the table at the fancy dinner

Swill

sorry : (

blurst friend

Viscount Islands

Anxiety is something I don't have like at all.

Squall

then get out of here vis

@swill it's cool mang remembering facial hair is an oddly specific thing to ask

Blake T

Squall if it makes you feel better I don't remember meeting you at pax.

Squall

i can't imagine you remember meeting anyone there

perpetual intoxication has that effect

Swill

If i make it to pax next year i am going to be 21 for the first time

that is all.

edit; I was tipsy for a good amount of it

Squall

gonna do irish carbombs with you swill

gonna do it