Anxious all the time

I'm 60 & never had any problem before but six months ago started getting terrible anxiety almost all the time. Trying exercise, CBT, meditation, some improvement, but my life is still intolerable.

[Gambit62]

This forum is a very quiet one - so you might find joining Anxiety Support - which is a much busier forum more useful.

healthunlocked.com/anxietys...

Posting a link to symptoms of B12 deficiency in case anything else on their rings a bell as likelihood that you develop a deficiency gets greater with age as stomach acidity falls (often mistaken for high stomach acidity as symptoms are pretty much the same).

pernicious-anaemia-society....

If it sounds likely then recommend that you join the PAS forum as getting a diagnosis and correct treatment can be very difficult ... and GPs generally know next to nothing about B12 deficiency and sometimes a lot of what they think they know is actually myth

healthunlocked.com/pasoc/posts

you might also find this post helpful

healthunlocked.com/couchtob...

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Thanks so much - will take a look. Sorry for delay, but did not see that anyone had replied.

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Hi Phil I hope your feeling ok today? I have suffered all my life with anxiety and its horrible. Some days I am fantastic and could sing dance and everything in between then the clouds come in. Iv been told it helps to talk and if your like me there are very few people i can talk to that would understand anyway. So im here if you need to just let of steam. My names Kay and im 54.

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Hi Kay - sorry to hear you have suffered for so long. I seem to go up and down but not so bad as I was 6 months ago. Don't really know if it's anything I'm doing, or if I'm just getting used to it. Talk endlessly to my CBT therapist, but seems a bit self indulgent sometimes. Bad things happen to most people, so why should it affect me and not others - feel weak and useless sometimes. Glad to hear there are times when you can sing and dance!