But yes. Ew dentists

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so… how is everyone?
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Do you know a life of loneliness and one filled with pain,
living a life with nothing to gain,
Surrounded by darkness, overwhelmed with shame.
A life without peace with no one to blame.

Haha, I was reading and trying to catch up and you guys were talking about all living in the middle of the U.S. I just thought it was funny because I live in Nebraska, but I just got back from vacation in Wisconsin XD

lol

Wow hello from above xD

…. saw the anxiety part and decided to randomly jump in on this convo.
I have severe social anxiety, severe general anxiety and panic attacks.
My social anxiety use to rule my entire life (like 1 out of 10, it was a 20.) and I think it started somewhere between 1st grade and starting 2nd grade, or maybe I've always been like this, I can't really remember anything earlier than that. So basically my entire life. Now, my social anxiety is at like a 10/10, and my general anxiety, which I think I've always had in addition to the social anxiety, but the SAD was so horrible and out of control that I never noticed, that is at a 10/10 too.
After, you know, like 4 years of saying I'm going to a doctor to get some help, I finally have, and am on medication, but… I have a seriously high threshold of tolerance to any kind of drug/medication, and my PCP does not understand that I need like the highest doses possible for anything to work…
Anyway.
my general anxiety is making me go through hell right now, it's constant anxiety attacks every day, every minute, worrying, thinking, overworrying, psyching myself out in my own head. Ugh.
hate hate hate

i can only offer a temporary solution, listen to music and try to make it seem like you're just walking down an empty street, it's worked for me. as for the anxiety attacks, when you know you're on the verge of an attack just take some deep breaths and tell yourself that there's no reason to get worked up. sadly that's all i can suggest as i haven't experienced anxiety as sever as yours in a long time. i hope that one day you'll be able to beat your anxiety.

My social anxiety isn't that bad and I don't have to take medication for it, but I also refuse to get help for it because I want to get past it on my own and I don't trust people to know that much about me, so that isn't very smart of me but I applaud you for getting help. What I do is I have a stress ball (which is supposed to be for a different medical condition that my cardiologist gave me but it works for this too…) and whenever I start to feel like I can breathe, I just focus on squeezing it as hard as I can. Or I remove myself from the group and sit farther back with my earbuds in so that I can focus on the music rather than the people around me. Another thing I found that helps is to also just focus on something else in the room, anything but the people around you. It can be on your breathing, a specific point on the wall in front of you, if there's an cat or dog there, you can focus on petting it. My dogs go everywhere I can take them, their like anxiety dogs, but they're not certified. It really helps to have them and my stress ball with me wherever I go…

Do you guys ever start thinking about what it would be like with anxiety (or any other mental illness) and then start kind of freaking out and getting anxious, because then you'd have to learn to live without it, and you'd be a completely different person?
if that made sense haha

Anyway, I did go to a psychiatrist, and I was a bit high off my anxiety meds (I had just started them, and took double right before the meeting) so I wasn't as clammed up, but man, the questions she asked, I did not like, felt very uncomfortable, because I hate talking about myself, and telling people how I feel, because then they know too much about me, and that gives them more reason to judge me (irrational fear, I know…)

Hello y'all. I'm here to both offer and receive hugs if anybody needs or wants to give hugs.

My social anxiety isn't that bad and I don't have to take medication for it, but I also refuse to get help for it because I want to get past it on my own and I don't trust people to know that much about me, so that isn't very smart of me but I applaud you for getting help. What I do is I have a stress ball (which is supposed to be for a different medical condition that my cardiologist gave me but it works for this too…) and whenever I start to feel like I can breathe, I just focus on squeezing it as hard as I can. Or I remove myself from the group and sit farther back with my earbuds in so that I can focus on the music rather than the people around me. Another thing I found that helps is to also just focus on something else in the room, anything but the people around you. It can be on your breathing, a specific point on the wall in front of you, if there's an cat or dog there, you can focus on petting it. My dogs go everywhere I can take them, their like anxiety dogs, but they're not certified. It really helps to have them and my stress ball with me wherever I go…

I think a stress ball would be helpful for me. possibly help me locate my most sensitive trigger points, if I have it on me 24/7 .
yes… good idea

Yeah, that was the one I found the most effective

Have any of you actually attempted suicide?

I lost count a while back.

Nooooooooooo, oy, don't do that D: