Generalized Anxiety Disorder help

[Emjo25]

Hello my name is Emilio and I'm new here, I'm 20 years old, about 7 months ago I started to feel worried all the time with no apparent reason. I felt like everyday I had a final exam or a really important meeting. Like most of us I tried to ignore it, let my body take care of it, however it just got worst. Recently I started to do some research and I believe I suffer from GAD or Generalized Anxiety Disorder, do you have any advice for me in order to feel less anxious for no reason?

Thanks, Emilio

[Lixus]

Anxiety is a very common symptom in a lot of mental issues and depending on what your other symptoms are and how you feel you have to deal with it in a different way... Can you be more specific about when do you have anxiety, or if there is any triggers? You don't need a trigger to have anxiety but is important to know them

My first advice would be to stop running away from your feelings, don't fight against them, don't try to ignore them, just accept anxiety live with you and we don't usually have a magic door which we can open, get through it and stop feeling anxious

Also I would suggest you to try therapy, search a good psychiatrists who can properly diagnose you and search for a good therapist as well

[Emjo25 in reply to Lixus]

Thanks a lot for the advice, sometimes I can notice what triggers the anxiety but its hard for me to pin point what exactly is it, most of the times it comes out of nowhere or at least thats what I believe, today for example I woke up feeling really anxious, couldn't sleep anymore and this happens almost 5 or 6 times a week. My most noticeable symptoms are sweaty hands, restless, this feeling that I have something important coming all the time, lack of sleep, and just this hole in my stomach all the time. I will follow your advice and look for a therapist cause the first months I believed that I could stop it, control it, but it just got worst and now I'm so tired of this feeling

[Lixus in reply to Emjo25]

According to my experience, most of the times you feels anxiety coming out from nowhere is because you've been suppressing your feeling and anxiety for a lot of time, I did the exact samething when I started experiencing OCD and social anxiety, I thought I could control it and I could just stop thinking about it but that is the worst thing you can do

Dealing with anxiety is a very long road to make and sometimes it seems to be very overwhelming but trust me when I say that you can live with it.

In 2 years dealing with this and almost a year of therapy I've learn to deal with it in a safer way, you can't get rid of it, you can't suppress it but you can live with it because at the end you are the only person you'll live with and you have to love and accept yourself the way you are

[Jordsmith9]

I have had this happen for many years. It sucks and for a long time I was able to control is or “manage” it, but as I’ve gotten older and had more real life responsibilities I’m unable to manage it without medication and talk therapy. Besides therapy and medication the largest thing that helps me through this crazy life is my faith. My assurance comes from knowing Christ. Without that I think I’d be in a even worse way.