I feel like no one understands so it's not real. Is it me?

[PeachTiger]

I'm new here and this is my first post.

Is it just me?

I know that there are so many other people who suffer anxiety, depression, and all the other crap that goes along with it. I have read so many posts that sound the same as what I deal with but I haven't seen ALL my symptoms in the anxiety forums. I can't help but wonder if there is also something else physically wrong with me. I have pain in my back and my chest quite often, like Im being squeezed. I feel a hard lump the size of a fist under my ribs on the left side, but only sometimes

I have been to the ER many many times with panic attacks and other varying symptomsit and been diagnosed with everything from an ear infection (yes, an EAR infection, and he didnt even LOOK in my ear, and my blood pressure was elevated!) to costochondritis, which I did believe to some degree because the anti-inflamatories helped. All that being said, does anyone else feel these things? I feel like there is something in my stomach, like a big tumor that the doctors haven't found or if it's just the IBS making me feel like this, or the anxiety, or a combination of many things. It's so hard living with this anxiety disorder because we go from thinking there's something seriously wrong to thinking it's just the anxiety. Then it's back to, 'but what if it isn't and it's something serious and it kills me because I don't do anything about it?". is it just me? are there other people who feel this way? I feel like I'm even a little bit crazy. Trying to explain any of it to people close to me I hear what I'm and I sound crazy even to myself. I feel like it's never going to end. My life has changed so drastically and I don't even work any more. I have NO income and that scares me to death too. I'm like a dog chasing my tail most days. I used to be so strong, afraid of almost nothing and a very self sufficient person. I want that person back again. Anyone else get the same symptoms??

[abhi_123]

Same Man.. No one will listen to me also when i feel same

[Anxietyfree]

Ok slooooow down. I want you to look up 7-11 breathing techniques. Anxiety can turn us into hypochondriacs and doom masters so learning to control your breathing will and has too calm the body and mind. Humans can very easily turn into catastrophisers and theses feeling and thoughts feed each....in the end we have a very nasty anxiety habit. HABITS CAN BE BROKEN 😀. Check things like your intake of caffeine and sugar and try to take a wee walk everyday. Small steps will make big changes. I have been where you are and at this very moment I am holidaying in Croatia with my daughter. Some old habirs try to surface but with all my new healthu habits I can deal with a fleeting fear. You will get through this xx

[2muchanxiety]

I completely understand. I have the same issues. I suffer from IBS as well as many other health issues. Anxiety can cause my health issues to flare up. I have severe social anxiety which has made it impossible for me to keep a job. I try so hard to get jobs to be bringing an income into my household that it hinders being able to get govt assistance because we always make just a little too much. I try so hard to explain this to people and some try to understand or to at least be comforting and patient qith me but it never lasts. I always eventually get the look of annoyance.. Then I feel like I have burdened them and feel incredibly guilty that I am making a huge deal about my problems. I am severely empathic towards others. I am so observant that the slightest change in body language, face expression or tone of voice can tell me their true feelings. That just makes my anxiety a thousand times worse and has (amoungst other past experiences) resulted in severe social anxiety. I get what you're saying when you say it doesn't feel real... It's dismissed so often and I'm told so often that I'll be fine or to just work through it that I feel like I am being told that since I can't work through it that I belong in some mental hospital. It makes me feel like I'm just crazy and overreacting...

On another note.. IBS amoungst other things have lead to me having really bad indigestion. The indigestion cause trapped air just under my diaphragm which causes horrible pain under my ribs and makes it really hard to breath. This last time it was so bad I nearly passed out from the pain.

[vbp123]

Hi, try self help books. There are lots of good advice to understand what is going and how you can deal with it. A lot of us here suffer from anxiety and list our symptoms and we all try to help even if it is by listening to each others worries.

Don't be too harsh on yourself. One day at a time. You are not alone.

x