Anxiety coming and going

[misfitt]

I’m feeling a little better today. The paranoia has calmed down a little. But I do have a question for some of you.

If you go to my profile and read the very first thing I post then this will make sense but as some of you read about what I’ve been so paranoid about lately it kind of ties into when I was very small, around ten years old I had a constant fear that someone was going to poison me and I was going to end up dying. Well that went away, and then there was some show on tv around the same time of some guy with a skin condition that made him deformed and then that became something I obsessed over, that I thought was going to happen to me but that went away too. I’m sure that what I’m afraid of now will go away soon but I wanted to know if that’s a thing? If anxiety like this can come and go after so many years? I know I probably sound crazy but that’s just how my mind works. It’s like it comes back every so many years?

[sarahjaneR]

A lot of anxiety has triggers that sets it off. Ive had a run of good days then suddenly a bad day out of the blue. I went through a stage when any news item about health would set me off worrying. Then i would avoid watching anything that could trigget it off. Now Ive managed to get over this by not avoiding it so much. Anxiety definately can come and go, your not alone in this

xx

[seaShelly]

There are people with gad - generalized anxiety - who pretty much worry all the time. But there are people who might have more punctuated episodes of anxiety when something triggers them. I believe you can have both also. My feeling is that all of this is usually rooted in control..we have a need to feel more in control and we hang on to random fears to feel like we are highly alert and won't fall victim to a particular problem

[misfitt in reply to seaShelly]

My psych said that I had GAD, but I do have triggers. I don’t worry all of the time tho. Before this episode happened I was completely fine. It’s lasted for about a month

[Skwirl]

I just happened to read your post and it caught my eye because I had the same thing happen when I was around the same age. I look back now and wonder if I actually lost weight, or if/why parents didn’t notice? I can remember being scared s—-tless at dinner time. Specially if we were having mushrooms, I thought “thats it I’m dead”! I think it lasted less than a year, and somehow went away... When I got older I would think back on it and wonder if it was just due to the fact that my parents smoked weed and maybe it affected me that way? After reading you experienced it too, I wonder if it was a sign that I would end up having anxiety like I do now? Interesting...