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Anxiety in overdrive

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Cluelessat33 · 13/10/2023 23:38

I'm stressed at work and it's causing my anxiety to go into overdrive. To the point I get fixated on things that are worrying or bothering me. And then I worry and worry and worry at it. I google shit. Stress about it. Struggle to sleep it starts to really creep into my thoughts all the time.

Example: the last few weeks I've been stressing about headlice. Heard a couple of people (with kids in different schools to my daughter) talk about how they have been told about lice in the school. Cue stress overdrive for several weeks. Despite checking both myself and my daughter on a regular basis, I couldn't get worry of it out of my head.

Work is causing me stress. And I know when I'm stress for a sustained period of time I start to really truggle with anxiety. Often about stupid things that I blow out of all proportion to their actual threat.

I've tried talking therapies in the last when I've struggled before. About as much use as the proverbial t*ts on fish. What can u do without medicating...... or quitting my job which I need. I really struggle to rationalise at this point. Now I'm bloody stressing about bed bugs after seeing lots of stuff online, with lots of hotel stays for work coming up. Rationalising at this point will be a struggle. And even when I do, the thoughts will creep back in.

Help I suppose.

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fourlambbhunas · 14/10/2023 00:04

Do you think there's a possibility you could have ocd? I would get fixations like this when my ocd was at its worst. I know it's no help as you don't want medication but I have been on a low dose of sertraline and it's been amazing, I'm loving a different life without anxiety and ocd. I wonder if you tried a talking therapy more aimed at ocd maybe it could help?

Cluelessat33 · 14/10/2023 08:28

@fourlambbhunas I think you are right. It's something which has occurred to me in the past, but I've never really done anything about it.

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fourlambbhunas · 19/10/2023 18:57

Cluelessat33 · 14/10/2023 08:28

@fourlambbhunas I think you are right. It's something which has occurred to me in the past, but I've never really done anything about it.

It definitely sounds like OCD. I look back at some of the fixations I had and I wonder how I got through it. My sympathies are with you as it's really stressful when your mind is constantly going in circles finding this to stress about. I did cbt for ocd and found it really helped, but sertraline got rid of all of it x

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