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Anxiety - ruining my life

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Lizzie334 · 23/02/2022 08:32

Hello all

I have suffered with anxiety for about three years now. This was triggered from smoking weed and having a panic attack whilst doing so. Lesson learned I won’t even have a paracetamol now lol.

I have been able to manage it for the last three years without medication but with exercise, healthy eating, occasionally seeing a CBT therapist as and when I feel like it - I have bouts where I am so so anxious I feel like I am actually going mental. I feel spaced out, question everhthing like to the point where I think how is the world so big 🤣 then that thiught panics me because I think am I going mental. Thus far I have not gone ‘mental’ after three years of worrying that I will. So I know my anxiety is irrational and I know it’s completely stupid. But yet still borderline debilitating.

Due to the trigger of my anxiety coming from ‘taking’ something, I am so so so reluctant to try anti anxiety tablets.

Has anybody else ever worried about this? And if so how did you over come it?

As I say, I have been able to manage my anxiety for a really long time but it is now making me dread normal things like going to get my nails done, driving and even going out for tea and enough is enough.

OP posts:
Watchkeys · 23/02/2022 08:36

Due to the trigger of my anxiety coming from ‘taking’ something, I am so so so reluctant to try anti anxiety tablets

I think that's a bit like saying 'I got food poisoning once, so I don't eat any more'

If something damages you, avoid it. You don't have to avoid everything else as well.

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