Stress Center Peer Support

Here goes to a long post – but looking for some input and support. I have been seeing a therapist and most recently referred me to also see a psychiatrist who has said that I indeed have GAD and panic attacks (probably for a lot longer than I think). Which I knew, but still do not want to believe. I...

I have suffered from Generalized Anxiety for many years - particularly horrible and most debilatating symptom has always been the Depersonalization/Derealization. I have been working through this program - but still really stuck in obssesively thinking about reality - researching website/forum after...

Yesterday I was completely ready to commit myself to the 1st mental ward I could find. I could not get it together to save my soul. Today, it feels like I am a new person- connected, feeling up and getting so much accomplished. However, I keep wondering when will this great feeling end - setting my ...

on a new symptom that I have been having that is rather disturbing.... My mind is constantly running (mind chatter) especially when I am by myself - which is a better portion of the day, as I work full-time from home. When someone comes home (my family)- the mind still chatters - but I can have a co...

where they have been somewhere a 100 times - and when you go again - it feels like it's new. I go to the same grocery store every week (for 5 years) and have noticed that in the last month every week I go - it feels like I have never been there before, it all feels strange. Also, I have noticed (may...

When you have your anxiety under control??? I am always looking for an answer as to when this all started. If I can't put a finger on knowing that, how will I know when this is REALLY under control???? I am working the program - more slowly than I should, I am sure. But don't know if there is really...

I have been working the program - for a few months. Not as deligently as I should, when I feel the worst, I resort to it. Then when I somewhat feel good, I think I have it under control, I stop. I check in with this group all the time - but rarely post - until I feel that I am at my wits end. My big...

I am working on Session 7 and am finding that I feel so consumed with my what-if-thinking and replacing it that I am not in anyway connected with what is going on around me. I am driving myself crazy now thinking that I am losing it because all I do is talk to myself in my head - 24 hours. When I do...

When you feel "normal" - if there is such a thing. I have been come to realize that I have been dealing with anxiety/panic a lot longer than I thought. Working through the program and on Week 5 has made me realize that. My biggest issue is the depersonalization feelings. My life feels as though I am...

I have a new symptom that has "showed up", and was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced it. The more I focus on the "Now" - I am finding that I hear someone say something during a conversation - and then I hear repeated in my own mind. I keep telling myself "Stop" - but it keeps creeping ba...