Please tell me I'm not alone...

[Bumbling-around]

Hello,

For the past few weeks I've been feeling quite odd and down. I've been quite emotional and very anxious. I've been writing down everything I've felt/thought but I'm too scared to phone the doctors because I feel silly and like they'll laugh at me.

This is what I've written down...

* Feel tired all the time although I'm sleeping between 10-12hrs a day

* Constant numb headachey feeling

* Really anxious about everything

* Crying all the time at odd things

* Don't like letting people down - force myself to do things

* Feeling alone even when I'm with friends or family

* Cancelling on friends

* Can't leave the house alone - have to talk myself into it or don't go out at all

* Feel like people are laughing/staring at me/talking about me - feeling constantly judged

* Can't see myself getting anywhere after uni

* Just want to be on my own yet can't stand being alone - drives me crazy

* Sit in my room all day even though it makes me feel miserable and anxious

Please tell me I'm not alone!!!

Thank you,

P x

[Stressucks1989]

I'm having the same issues but more physically severe. I'm having the same lack of interest but now it's affecting my motivation, appetite, sleep and much more. Your case sounds like panic and major depressive disorder. You may need to be on antidepressants until things settle down, please make an appointment with a pschiatrist.

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Hi welcome to the site. This sounds very much like depression to me, though obviously we can't diagnose you over the internet. Do you have a college counsellor you could talk to?

I can assure you that your doctor will not laugh at you, after all mental health issues is the second biggest reason for people visiting their doctor. Every doctor will have heard all this a thousand times. Make an appointment and get some help. If it helps just print off a copy of your post and give it to them to read.

If you don't want to go the medical route then try self help and google mindfullness, meditation, yoga etc.

Let us know how you get on please.