Trying to deal with anxiety

[Littleblue20]

Hi everyone my whole life I’ve felt with anxiety and I’m usually a positive person but lately I’ve been feeling more and more upset and I don’t know not to deal with my anxiety right now

[DragonTears]

Hi LittleBlue, welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear you are struggling. Are you going through any specific events at the moment or anything else you can relate this heightened anxiety to? Or has it just crept up from nowhere? How do you normally cope with your anxiety? what kind of symptoms do you have? Let us know and we can better support you

[Littleblue20 in reply to DragonTears]

Yes currently got out of a bad relationship lived with him moved with my mom never lived with her before that’s very hard and stressful, symptoms when I get anxious I feel stuck in life I get very upset and want to cry and I really start overthinking everything but having someone to talk to would really help

[DragonTears in reply to Littleblue20]

Morning (in the UK)

Sounds like you are going through some hard times. It is not easy going through a break up at any time in life and having to move in with your mum as an adult can be very tricky. there is no universal law to say just because they are your mum or dad, that you will instantly get on. You are two adult people with your own needs and wants. In your time of emotional uproar, you need your space, you need support and you need some safety. I find often that it is the safety of a relationship (even if things went badly) that is the biggest disruption and if you haven't got somewhere safe to land, then that amplifies the feeling of loneliness and abandonment. You say you haven'r lived with your mum before so I am guessing there is more to the story here. I wonder how you are coping and if you have any chance to establish you own space with your mum. What is she like to talk to? does she understand at all or is she being all over you? What's the situation right now with the ex? are you in contact or have you cut it off completely? Things probably seem impossible right now and you have to just take it hour by hour and not think too far ahead. one thing at a time. Are you working at the moment?

[Littleblue20 in reply to DragonTears]

We don’t get along as much she changes her mind on everything one day she says I can go out the next it’s a no and she acts like I’m in the way and says I need to help pay rent but I just got a part time job and it’s frustrating she helps my brother out more then me I understand he was raised with her but she acts like she doesn’t want to be responsible for me and that makes me sad I do work and I no longer talk to my ex so me trying to find friends is so helpful right now but she won’t let me go out