I've had anxiety since I was 14, cant remember how it started but it sure did spring me into depression at the age of 16 when I realised what was actually happening to me. I have kept myself isolated from people and just lost all communication skills with people, now I can't talk to people at all and it has springed me into more deeper depression. I find myself having panic attacks in small situations, I have health anxiety and very bad OCD. Maybe because having all this issue with anxiety made my body so vulnerable. so now I came to realise that i have suffered for 7 years and it has not killed me, all my problems are not in reality but all in my head if that makes sense. It will be very hard to overcome these problems but I just want my life that I never got a chance to live back. I'm now 21 and I refuse to let it destroy me.
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Time to fight.
Amazing post 
i wish you all the best with getting it all sorted, i am doing the same thing and have been for some time now.
You can do this.
Trip
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Thank you trip, all the best to you too.
I recently turn 18 and have discovered that i have anxiety around 6 months ago. I visited my GP who gave me the diagnosis which has lead to me to think why i have anxiety and what has caused it. After researching about anxiety i discoverd health anxiety and OCD. I constantly think that i have a brain tumor because i get migraines and other symptoms, i also have certain whys i have to do things (rituals) that i HAVE to do otherwise i think about what the consquences will be such as someone i love dying or something happening to me or someone else etc. If i dont do them it plays on my mind and then when i comes around for the second time i have to do it twice to make up for the first time if that makes sense? i have only ever told one person about my ocd and anxiety and they thought it was funny and told me to stop as if it was a choice to have to do these metal turtoring things.
its something i really want to get out of the patern of i have been doing the rituals since i was 13 and i am starting to think its what has caused for my anxiety to get at this high point where everyday i think i am dying or just feeling so down and strange and fuzzy as if am i not even in my own head. its so strange.
i admire you braveness and willpower and wondering if you can offer me any advice?
sorry to blab on but you are the 1st person who i have seen with similar anxiety issues at such a young age.
Faustine
Sertraline 
Are you someone who never gets angry (and could that be making you anxious/depressed?)
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