Happy Monday...I hope...

[duchess1226]

I have awoken on day 5 of absolute anxiety hell!! I wish it would just subside.. I happened upon this website that had a comprehensive list of anxiety symptoms. I don't know about you all but seeing all this makes me feel a bit less like I am dying so I am sharing. Take care all... <3

anxietycentre.com/anxiety-s...

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Hi, Thanks so much for this!

Can it even be possible that one person (me) have felt all/majority of these and luckily not all at the same time?

This is rather useful to me.

Thanks again.

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Hello

I have seen the lists of anxiety symptoms so many times and so many times I have thought wow who would think that anxiety could create so much but it can

The only thing I do believe is that if you are suffering with any of these symptoms , first get checked out with your Doctor to make sure it is nothing else causing them and as long as they give you the all clear physically then accepting anxiety actually is creating you to feel this way is a start and then get all the support you can

Take Care x

[Jeff1943]

No, Duchess, you are NOT dying and you are NOT going to feel this way for the rest of your life. For whatever reason your nervous system has become over sensitive due to stress and worries and this causes anxiety disorder. All those symptoms of anxiety are also the symptoms of physical illnesses, anxiety is very good at impersonating real physical illness. But anxiety symptoms are a sham, a fraud, they are fake because unlike real physical illness anxiety cannot kill you or damage your mind or body. They are merely blips and glitches in our over sensitised nervous system.

They can make you feel bad and put strange ideas in your head but so what? You can still carry on doing the normal things you do whilst accepting the bad feelings: I mean if you had an ache in your arm you'd still carry on as normal, you'd hardly give it a second thought. So why be cowed by a temprary blip in your nervous system.

Duchess, if you can accept the way you feel for the moment and do that with the minimum of fear (or no fear at all) you allow your nervous system to recover from its state of over sensitivity. And when that happens you will recover your quiet mind and all will be well with your world again. So instead of frightening yourself half to death say to yourself "These symptoms are only a toothless tiger and I'm not going to be bullied and abused by them any longer, they don't fool me one bit any longer and I'm putting them on notice to quit!"

Why not? If you can frame your mind towards acceptance you will soon join the rest of those hopefully travelling the Yellow Brick Road to recovery.

[duchess1226]

Your words are amazing and I thank you!! I had a good day today and I attribute that partially to your kind words.