I think I am suffering from stress. I did, a very long time ago (15 years maybe) have depression, and that is what I am familiar with avoiding and watching out for. I have become so worried about everything to the extent that I have chest pain if anybody else is in my presence.
What I should be worrying about is that I should be finishing my PhD. But the worry has spread to me worrying about everything. An example would be, I have to wake DS up in the morning or he will not get to school as he will miss the bus. He doesn't get up, so then I have to tell him again, then he will get up and announce that he won't do XYZ to get ready or that he needs XYZ today (example - a protractor for a maths exam) and he doesn't have one. Every stage of this leads to me having chest pain and feeling ill. So I am worrying about whether or not DS has one shoe missing before he even announces that he has lost it. I know that lots of teenagers must act like this, but I am in a constant state of stress over this and everything else. It has got to the point where I cannot walk the dogs in case I see another person and have some stressful interaction. I dread even filling in a school slip unless something goes wrong.
Has anybody any advice?