Stress Center Peer Support

I have been suffering with anxiety for most of my life but it has gotten worse as I get older. When I gave birth to my second son I started in with the depression part and that mad things even scarier because I never really had or thought I never had depression. When I get that unreality feeling I t...

This is so hard to deal with but I realize the more stress that I am under the more the health anxiety emerges so if I can keep my stress in check the anxiety about my health with be under control to. I am trying to figure out how to keep my stress in check when I don't even know it is there sometim...

I have really come to realize that the root to most of this for me is negative self talk. From telling myself their is something wrong with my heath to just thinking that their is no hope. I am trying very hard to change my way of thinking but my husband is extremely negative and whenever I say some...

I am SOOOOO glad that someone else gets this I have noticed this for about 10 or 11 years and I have always been kinda freaked out by it. I am thankful that I am not the only one. I usually notice it on any bright flat surface and the ots like move or sparkle or something it's weird. I don't notice ...

I am sooooooooooo with all of you guys on this one. I don't know why we feel like we have to do this to ourselves. I think that I do it as kind of an insurance policy as stupid as that sounds. I figure that if I worry enough about it it will make it not be true or it will keep me from actually havin...

This is a question for anyone who has an obsessive worry about their health. Have any of you found a way to tell the difference between an unneeded worry and a verified worry? And have you figured out how to tell yourself there is nothing to worry about? This drives me crazy and I just can't seem to...

For the past couple years I have woken up in the middle of the night with a fast and hard heart beat for really no reason I was not having a bad dream or even feeling anxious. This has happened about 4 or 5 times in the past couple years. I usually just take a xanax and then it takes it back to norm...

that has happened to me before also. i will be going along doing well and wham it hits me and the only thing i can figure is stress. i don't cope as well as i use to with it. that is when i notice it seems to happen. just realize that stress has strange ways of effecting your body and mind. it doesn...

i need some reassuring. does anyone get realllllllly anxious going to the doctors? I DO!!! i need to go to ease my fears but i am so afraid of them finding something horrible or missing something that i really do have. i scare myself so bad. then i feel to like if i am not anxious than then will def...

i am with you guys i would love a marriage forum i have alot of stress from my marriage and would love the support. i get alot of negitivity from my husband and he has very high expectations that he doesn't think he has and that goes for the kids to he exspect alot from them also. it is very stressf...