Stress Center Peer Support

Chris, I am not a positive thinker at all! I really never have been. I know that's something I need to change, but that's going to take a lot of work. As for diet and exercise, I do "okay" but not great. I drink too many diet drinks, and I'm trying to cut down on that. I do eat fatty foods, but I al...

HI Chris. Thanks again for responding. It's good to know that I'm not alone with my setback. Since I posted that things seem to have started turning around again. I'm really not sure what caused that setback. I've tried to think of something that has happened recently to have triggered it, but I rea...

Hi, Chris. Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I was under an increasing amount of stress at work in January. I'm a teacher and our state testing happens in March, so late January/early February is when the school district really starts putting pressure on teachers to make sure students are...

I've been on Zoloft (been at 150mg for a month now) for anxiety and Xanax (.25mg) for acute panic attacks since early March. I was doing better, but the last week I seem to have gone backward, which is when I decided to start working the program again. My question: has anyone else experienced a setb...

Hi there. My name is Jason and I live in East Texas. I'm a graduate student and also a teacher -- well, I was a teacher anyway. That seems to be in doubt right now. I've been here before. I've had problems with anxiety attacks and depression since I was a little kid. Back in 2009 it got really bad, ...