Is this anxiety ?

[Ollybolly]

I really always hope I'll never return back here, not in a horrible way this community is lovely. But In the sense I only come back when my anxiety is bad. So I have this horrible horrible fear of an anureysum. I don't know where it came from but I often get sharp pains in my head at the top bottom and radiates from my neck. I know I have a problem with my neck muscle from the way I sleep and that can set of the anxiety and make me believe I have one. However, my anxiety has now got so bad I can't leave my house I just can't and I am in a constant state of anxiety it's so draining I'm not talking a little anxiety I'm talking it gets so intense I'm Crying and shaking violently thinking any second I'm just gonna die. In December 2017 I had a CT scan and bloods done both have literally showed up completely fine. I just fail to accept it from whenever I get a pain in my head. I get dizzy feel sick and shaky and panicked when I go out or do anything cause I feel like I'm just going to drop dead. I literally need someone to tell me straight it's anxiety and I'm going to be fine and I can break the cycle. Surely if my CT scans are fine hospital and doctor visits since then they all say I'm fine they're telling the truth? I'm on the verge of giving up and I'm only 21 it shouldn't be this way..

[stephanxiety]

i know exactly how you feel and i can tell you 100% right now, IT IS ANXIETY! i have been through exactly what you are going through right now in 2013, i had the same fear with my brain, i had scans done and done time and time again i would force them to let me get one, because i couldnt get myself to believe that it was anxiety and i was convinced something else was wrong, and once i accepted that it was anxiety, then it all literally just went away. trust me it is anxiety and anxiety can make you feel some strange symptoms that you think you could only get it something was wrong with you. My anxiety is now back stronger than ever but not related to my head this time, but my heart as i suffer from skipped beats and palpitations now, so ive done tests and tests on my heart convinced something is wrong with me, but its not, its anxiety and just like the head anxiety i had like yours, i will over come this and so will you !

[Ollybolly in reply to stephanxiety]

Your reply has helped it's nice but not at the same time knowing you aren't alone in issues that seem extereme. Mine used to do that fonce I was over one anxiety a new one would pop up but this time this isn't shifting but I am trying to come to terms that it isn't anything bad despite having all the tests done it's just such a powerful thing anxiety

[Johnnie1234 in reply to stephanxiety]

i been like this for over year now aswell and its my heart that freaks me out even when im sleeping it just trying to beat really fast then it calms down its a wierd thing i never had before over some weed dont know if it messed up my nerves traumatized my nerves i had a huse panick attack of some weed i smoked in 2016 i thought i almost died my heart was racing like crazy the only way i calmed down was by throwing ever sense that day i never been the crazy sympthoms i never had before .

[Jeff1943]

Olly, people aged 21 don't have aneurisms. People who have had a CT scan and are told by doctors they are fine don't have an aneurism. Radiographers and doctors know what aneurisms look like and if they tell you that you haven't got one then guess what, you don't have an aneurism.

The suggestion that people who go to medical school for 5 years don't know what they're doing, or that you know better than them, is not believable.

You could go see a specialist in aneurisms but the problem is you can't be cured of an illness you don't have no matter how hard you try. Agreed? I hope so.

May I suggest you're looking in the wrong direction. Instead of stressing and obsessing and spending your time focussing on your symptoms, you should focus solely on the single cause of your symptoms - anxiety. Because if you can free yourself of the anxiety disorder all the symptoms of fake illnesses will disappear.

Anxiety is very good at imitating real physical illness but the symptoms that anxiety causes are fake. They're not real. So it's time that you attached far less importance to the pains in your head, the dizziness, the nausea and the feelings of panic etc.

To recover, you must stop fighting your anxiety because that only produces more stress and tension and your over sensitive nerves need less not more of that.

To recover you must stop adding second fear to the flash of first fear because it is fear and the fear of fear and the hormones that fear produces that is keeping your nerves in their sensitive state.

To recover you must accept for the moment all the symptoms of anxiety calmly and without fear. Yes you read that right, you must ACCEPT your symptoms completely, stop fighting them, stop worrying about them and agree to co-exist with them for the time being. I know the symptoms are uncomfortable but you CAN do it, you can accept the symptoms without fear - because you know the symptoms are fakes, frauds, they don't really exist. That's why nothing ever shows up on scans: you can't photograph something that doesn't exist.

So why fear sonething that doesn't exist? Now you understand that you should be ready to accept all the tricks that anxiety plays on you.

When you stop generating fear and frightening yourself to death every five minutes you stop flooding your nervous system with hormones that keep your nerves over sensitive. And eventually, not right away but eventually, your nervous system returns to normal and you regain your quiet mind.

Acceptance takes practice and persistance. But it's well worth it to get your life back.