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I'm Leila, I suffered with Social anxiety most of my teens, early into my adulthood, I see a therapist once every two weeks to see how things are and to see if there are different techniques to try, but I'm doing great! I'm friendly, supportive, gentle, and kind and considerate, when it comes to helping people. Thank you for having me, Leila

Hi. I'm new here but not to anxiety. I've had anxiety for many years even as a child but had no idea what it was at the time, in more recent years its been worse and more frequent. Officially Diagnosed with GAD around age 23/24 now 28. Moved to the bay area last year, just recently found new doctors that were needed due to change of location. Just started to see a new psychologist will meet with a new psychiatrist this week. Something really new to me had been a more sadness / depressiveness about my anxiety and in general. I've "dealt" with anxiety for a long while now but these other feelings have really only started to happen within the last few weeks. I wanted to join this site / community to see if online blogs, chats, forums etc would be helpful . Thanks!

Hi There, just joined the forum. I have a multitude of health concerns, but i will save them for another forum. I will just introduce myself here Robert, From Ireland. 23 years old. Working as an IT Systems Administrator. I suffer from high levels of anxiety and stress. Only recently has this Anxiety turned into a more of a health-related hypochondria / health Anxiety. I suffered Asthma as as a child, but nothing else since thankfully. I have been relativity healthy. I could do with loosing a few pounds, and exercising more.. but i wouldn't consider my weight a major issue. Anyway, looking forward to (hopefully) easing my concerns, or at least, talking with others that have similar Health Anxiety issues! Robert

Hi All, I´m a 30 something woman, and I´ve been suffering from anxiety, agoraphobia and claustrophobia for some odd 10 years. After the initial misery, I had gotten much better in past, could travel, fly, go on cruises with only minor discomfort, but about three months ago things started going down the hill, and I feel that I´m at the beginning again. The doctor prescribed Cipralex to me a month ago, but it doesn´t seem to kick in yet. I couldn´t make it to the nearest shop (which is 500 metres again) this morning. This is scaring the living daylight out of me. I´ve got two children so I really have to work in life somehow. Blue drink, anyone?

Hi guys I'm a newbie to here and it never even occurred to me to introduce myself which I will put right now. Firstly I have suffered from depression on and off for over twenty years but this time I also have to deal with a leukaemia and the recent death of my mother six months ago,but this time around my depression seems to be a lot harder to cope with,according to my doc its all due to the build up to what I've been through in the past year anyway,that's about it for now.

So hey guys, I haven't been diagnosed with anxiety but I used to have an eating disorder and I have depression and I'm a self harmer too :/ recently I've been missing A LOT of school just because I can't leave the house. No one knows I stay here except my sister as my mom and step dad leave for work before I leave for school. I don't know what to do because I'm panicking about if I get found out and what could happen? There's also messed up stuff in my head saying I'm still fat and ugly and that if I leave the house something will happen and it kinda goes on like that. I've been re-refured back to Camhs but I'm scared there's gonna be a massive waiting list. If you could reply then id feel a lot better, especially if one of you have been through the same or similar thing or are going through this too xx

Hello everyone. I just signed up here to talk to others who understand what I am going through. I am in Cognitive behavior therapy at the moment I am a student at The Open University (Study from home). I am having a hard time dealing with my anxiety over the last year. When my Nan passed away with me at her side last year my life took a spiral downwards. Although I have always had anxiety since she passed it has affected my life dramatically. I am unable to leave the house by myself and I have constant worries about EVERYTHING. I feel alone even though I am surrounded by a great family & partner. "Getting on with it" is easier said than done & I'm really at a loss on coping with it.

So, I have issues with moderate to severe anxiety attacks. I mean most of the time I'm the calmest most laid-back person you'll ever meet. And then something will come up and I'm just about ready to have a heart attack as my throat feels like it's swelling shut. I have trouble sleeping and I can't stay asleep so I wake up feeling like I want to do nothing even though I look like a well-caffinated mess. Sometimes I feel like I should just go ahead and step into traffic or see how long I can hold my breath after a nice long jump off one of the downtown bridges. Then I realize that there's no way to pay for a funeral my mom will insist on and that it might hurt her if I do this. Its just that I sometimes find myself wondering when she'll hurrry up and pass so I can kill myself in piece, but that's selfish. Maybe I should just "move away" and forget to leave my contact information? I'm never happy. I have no friends and most of my family would be better off without me. I'm twenty-five and I feel like just laying down somewhere. I'm burnt out. Sorry I just needed to say this even if no one ever reads this or really cares.