To hate anxiety

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I'm not terrible with it at the moment, but I have a checkered history with having periods of intense and horrible anxiety (it was awful after my children were born).

It's still such a weak spot though, someone can say one thing and I will internally panic and worry about if I've done something wrong. Thoughts going round and round, so now I have to talk myself down off of the fudging ledge again.

I am so frustrated with myself over this, it feels so stupid. It will be fine, it is always ok in the end.

A bit of a personal question OP, but are you near the age for menopause/peri-menopause? I only ask because I am 46, and since I was 45 I get extreme anxiety, mostly health anxiety but also general anxiety disorder and social anxiety. I have recently discovered that menopause hormones, or lack thereof, are a big cause of anxiety, and as a result I can pretty much predict the days I will suffer most. This knowledge is liberating, and makes me so much less anxious because I know what it is.
Best of luck, and I hope you feel better soon.

I have terrible anxiety relating to being weak and different because I have a lifelong health condition. I was referred for CBT after seeing GP for it, but the biggest source of my anxiety is taking time off work for medical appointments when I'm not 'ill' because I don't want to talk about my health at work and I don't want to be seen as a skiver or weak and have my job on the line. I never did manage to get any help because they only offered appointments 9-5 3 days a week. It's a never ending anxiety cycle for me. I'm having to leave early tomorrow for an annual review and I haven't really slept all week. I'm crying out for routine care to be available evenings and weekends.

Mine are always work related and usually no basis in reality whatsoever :( eg I can click too much on my computer which leads to it freezing, which means I think I might have 'broken' something in the network of computers and they will all suddenly stop working because of me and the whole company will collapse. I can be paralysed by this thought... until my computer unfreezes and i am back to normal till the next panic!

My sympathies, OP and all that have posted, anxiety isn't easy to deal with.

I've got anxiety, I think I've always had it, my school report aged 7 said "ssd is a helpful pupil but gets very anxious when faced with new challenges"

well, I'm still the same at 50!!! I've recently started CBT and I cant quite see how it will work yet but I;m so hoping it does (for health anxiety)

todaysagoodday, your post is very interesting to me, I thought it was me just being daft but maybe hormones are making it worse?