Topic Title: Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?
| |  "Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?"
, Thu 4 Apr 05:20
I worry constantly about the health of my kids and sometimes about myself. I always envision the worst case scenario and can't talk myself out of it. Is this what people class as an anxiety disorder? Is anyone else like this?
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| |  "Re(1):Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?"
, Fri 12 Apr 19:08:
Hi Linda,
I have been dealing with anxiety similar to yours in that I worry about unrealistic things and have unpleasant thoughts that can not be controlled at times. It is frustrating and I find myself doubting who I am and feel as though I have lost a part of myself in all of this anxiousness.
I have found that, for me and according to my Dr., this is probably Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The above symptoms are indeed traits of that. WORRY WORRY WORRY! Obsessing on the thoughts. Analyzing and over-analyzing. I think that, for me, obsessing on those thoughts is a test. I am testing myself with every thought to see if it still bothers me to think about it. Sometimes I realize that these thoughts are NOT going to happen and I feel no anxiety from them. Other times they do make me anxious...VERY ANXIOUS. That is the obsessive part of it. I think about it until HOPEFULLY, I can talk myself out of the anxiety by "reasoning" with myself. Surrendering control is my biggest fear. Not being able to control my emotions is so stressful. I am a strong, intelligent, confident, humble (hahaha) woman...I am not so much when I am anxious.
I have also found that these thoughts are often an outlet for other stresses in my life. It may not be the thoughts that are exclusively CAUSING anxiety in my life, but other things, and the thoughts allow me to release what I otherwise can not let go of.
I think the reason why some people feel MORE anxious (as I have) with taking the SJW is because when you are used to living with anxiety, you don't know how to act or react without it. Anxiety is almost like a crutch you use, even though you may be perfectly mobile without it. It takes getting used to dealing with yourself again and not the anxiety.
These are really just my opinions and the things that I use to make myself feel better. I have done so much soul searching the past few months to determine what is going on with me. Please, don't feel like you are alone in this. You definately are not.
It's helpful to know that there are others out there that I can talk to about the anxiety.
[this message was edited by rettoparas on Fri 12 Apr 19:17]
Posts: 1 | | Registered: Fri 12 Apr 2002 18:31 |
| |  "Re(1):Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?"
, Thu 4 Apr 07:42
it sounds like anxiety disorder but I don't know much about it .. have you spoken to your doctor? :) Worrying a little is okay but worrying obsessively about things which likely won't happen is a problem, I think.
Posts: 73 | | Registered: Tue 12 Mar 2002 5:43 |
| | | "Re(2):Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?" , Thu 4 Apr 07:58
Actually Jos is on the right path. If you are worrying about things you think will occur when the chances are slim to none that they will in fact occur, you might have some type of anxiety. I myself have anxiety and this is one of the traits. It is usually worrying about my health which is most troubling. Not just when I feel bad. Even when I feel good. SJW has helped me out a great deal with respect to this. If you come to find that you do have anxiety, SJW is a good place to start when trying to remedy it in a medicinal type way. Especially if you have low to medium type anxiety. High being where you don't ever want to leave the house or feel as if you can do nothing without having an anxiety attack.
Posts: 84 | | Registered: Thu 10 Jan 2002 11:38 |
| | | "Re(3):Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?" , Fri 5 Apr 03:07:
Hi Mike
I had gone from having very high anxiety levels to what I would now consider to be 'moderate' (still a lot higher than normal:-)) without the help of medication. When I was suffering from very high anxiety I would have been unable to take even SJW for fear of side effects. I am hoping that the SJW will take the anxiety levels lower yet, ie to a level where they simply aren't an issue anymore. I have been encouraged by you and others who seem to have benefitted greatly from it :)
Can I ask, approximately how long did it take before you saw a really noticeable effect, and what dosage are you on?
cheers!
Jo
[this message was edited by Jos on Fri 5 Apr 03:09]
Posts: 77 | | Registered: Tue 12 Mar 2002 5:43 |
| | | "Re(4):Anxiety, worry worry worry. Am I alone?" , Mon 8 Apr 06:50
Hey Jos. I too was encouraged by some postings here when I first looked into SJW as a remedy. I am truly glad cause it has helped allot. Although it seems hard to admit, I probably had worse anxiety than I give myself credit for. Or maybe just more types of anxiety (general, performance, etc) and also some obsessive compulsive type behavior. That has almost all gone by the way side now. Course there are good and bad days/weeks, but everyone has those.
To your questions: I actually starting feeling somewhat of a difference around week 3. It progressed up to about week 5-6. Then leveled off. So I would say around week 5 or 6 you will see the full effect. As far as dose, I take the recommended dose. This is 900MG (usually 1 300MG three times a day). I am now taking Sundown which has a little bit different dosage schema. However, it is my understandind that the levels of the active ingredient are the same.
I know exactly how you feel about worrying of side effects. This was certainly a component of my anxiety. Kind of a vicious cycle. I will tell you this, SJW did make my symptoms slightly worse for the first week and a half to two weeks. It was not so much that I felt the need to stop. But enough to where I noticed. This is not the case for everyone. So people have no initial side effects at all.
Hope you have as much luck with it as I. I still have some anxiety here and there. But, I was at least a medium to high anxiety case. It seems to be the perfect median for me. Balancing the effectiveness of the remedy against the extremely minimal to nill side effects. I just have not found another solution that works as well all things considered. And not for a lack of trying.
Good luck to you. Keep me posted on your progress. I like to think that I could help someone with my postings the way I was helped (and put at ease) by the postings here. Take care.
Mike1g
Posts: 87 | | Registered: Thu 10 Jan 2002 11:38 |
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