Can’t stop worrying

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Hi, has anyone had any success in treating excessive worrying. I go through patches of worrying obsessively about difficult things, housing, travel, money etc. There is no obvious trigger sometimes I’ll be fine and other times I’ll obsessively google solutions to hypothetical problems. I tried CBT last year but found that the therapist was always trying to put my anxiety in a box, oh it’s social anxiety, or low self esteem etc. but none of the boxes really fit. It felt like they were trying to find an easy solution so they could mark me as in recovery, but I can go for weeks feeling fine and then suddenly it hits again with no warning. I ended up feeling frustrated by the process and quit after 9 months. Has anyone tried anything else that worked?

Hiya, i can relate to you as i have had anxiety for as long as i can remember. I've had therapy in the past for something else not anxiety related but even with that issue it didn't work for me. It wasn't until a year after i had a baby that i reached out for help. My worrying became intrusive thoughts and so overwhelming i couldn't leave the house with my son alone as i was just constantly anxious.

After a phone consultation with my gp and a form i had filled out online, i was prescribed a form of antidepressant. After a few weeks it started to work and i started to think/feel things less intense than i did before and it was much easier to manage.

I got pregnant a few months after i started it so i made the decision to stop taking it, and it's hard again and im worried all the time but when i know i've got a little one it gives me enough motivation to stay focused and overlook the worrying.

If i hadn't gotten pregnant i would've continued the medication!

Not sure if that's the solution you're looking for but that was my experience! You're not alone OP

Thanks, it’s good to know that I’m not the only person who found therapy didn’t work. It almost became another thing to worry about, like why doesn’t it work for me when it works for so many other people

This Ted X might help you better understand yourself;

I wish I had a cure for excessive worrying too, I have always been an anxious person and it only escalated since having a baby 6 months ago.
What does help me at least a bit is being mindful and trying to live in the now.
And I try to be busy, which is easy with a small baby so then I have no time to even think. But on my down days, such as this one I turn into a worrying maching.
And ahh yes...good old Googling...this is the only thing I successfuly managed to stop because I almost drove myself crazy I just went cold turkey and after almost convincing myself my baby is terminally ill because of Google and after a talk with my HV I quit with it.
Also talking to other people I trust helped immensley.

Sending hugs OP x

BTW sorry for my grammar errors..English is not my first language 🙂

I suffer from generalised anxiety disorder. I could be worrying one day about something I said to someone, the next that I won't be able to take holiday at work, the next that we'll never be able to get a mortgage. Etc etc. whatever is in my head. I find that hobbies (reading a good book, playing the drums), keeping busy and exercising help. Also test the worry. Imagine if the worry came true what the worst thing would be that could happen. Think about how if you didn't worry you would feel. There's some good cbt exercises on line.

Thanks, I do wonder if the going cold turkey option on Google might help, as I find it spirals. Testing the worry doesn’t seem to work with me, either there is still a part of my brain that says ‘but that bad thing could happen’ or I just find something else to worry/google about. Keeping busy helps but I can’t be busy all the time and when I spiral it’s really hard to stop and do something else.

Propanolol
Sertraline
Talking therapy

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Feel great again

Keep at it. With time you will realise. Sertraline helped when I started this though.