Stress Center Peer Support

Hi Drksydeone, I too have had anxiety and depression on and off for 20 years and am currently going through a bout right now. I know what you mean about feeling like you are doing okay and then it slams you and you wish you had a real-life excuse to explain the horrible feelings. I was just thinking...

Reading the various replies in this posting have been very helpful for me. Also, I wanted to address ShandyPants. Although it's been over a year from your posting, I really wanted to address the fear you were going through after the birth of your first child. I think, for me at least, I would be muc...

I do this too and just read the post that NeverQuit suggested. Both what you say and what this other post says are very similar and are also things I do with my boyfriend. I too have done this in other relationships as well...even as long ago as my first real relationship 17 years ago. I'm going thr...

Wow...NeverQuit. You really hit the nail on the head for me...especially this paragraph: Do you find that every time you try to answer these obsessive thoughts, it's never enough for your brain, that it just finds something else to cause doubt? Well, that's CLASSIC OCD. An OCD brain (I believe anyon...

Worry woman...please know that this is not the devil like one of the previous users mentioned. Thinking in this fashion puts some other entity in control of your thoughts (which to me is even more scary) and makes us feel that we don't have our own free will or can be controlled by an external force...