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Hi, I'm very new to this forum, I've recently been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and I have been having a lot of issues wondered if anyone had any advice. I was laid off three weeks ago, company said I wasn't performing well enough but there were 4 people let go at the same time so am I right to presume that I was part of a big cost cutting exercise? I keep replaying the whole thing over and over again and can't move forward from it. People around me say just let it go but its not easy to do that and I'm constantly thinking about it. I start a new job on Monday and I'm so nervous, completely lacking confidence and I don't know how to make myself feel more at ease about it. I know I can do the job but something in my head keeps saying I'll mess it up.

Hello to all of you guys. I've posted weeks ago about my chest pain and anxiety due to those pain. But right now thank God I was negative of some sickness. But right now I feel another pain that keeps worrying my mind. From the past week (I think 3rd week of November) I had experienced headache in a span of 4 days. It is unusual for me due to the fact that I felt dizzy as well and when I move or get up from the bed, I feel like the ground moved or has been moving. After the dizziness I had also experienced tight pain or prickly pain in different parts of my head especially in the sides and back. But after some time, it just vanished and I felt better. But when December came, I started to feel a little bit off again. I am experiencing neck pain, that numb and prickly feel. I also feel headaches at random spots in my head again and that pain also in my temple or behind my eye (i don't know exactly where) then my jaw and behind my ears starts to feel painful as well. Can you please help me recognize what I'm feeling. I'm starting to feel stressed and worried again. I tried to Google my conditions but my panic just gets worst due to the results it showed like brain aneurysm and hematoma. I literally cried after reading about it and I put into my conclusion that maybe it is the reason why I feel this pains in me. Please help me ! And any comments from you can be appreciated. Thank you !

Hi everyone. In my 20s there was a bully in university who would call me 'gay', lame, stupid, all kinds of insults. Him and a group of others would talk behind my back all the time. I have always had low self-esteem, low self-confidence, depression, anxiety etc. One time I snapped and called this bully a 'f**got' in front of others, because I had enough of being put down. In all honesty, at the time, I didn't know the true meaning of the word, I always, for some reason, thought it meant a stupid, mean person, and not in any way a term related to someones's sexuality. I know, that is ignorant of me in a way, to use a word I didn't know the true meaning of. And ironically, I was calling that person by a similar name that him and others were calling me by (gay). I am not homosexual, so the reason they were calling me that was to be mean and demeaning, like I am weak, not manly enough etc. I always hated that word being used in that context, because I felt it was inappropriate for the obvious reasons. Once I learned the true meaning of the word 'f**got', I have felt so guilty for saying that, simply for using that word, because that person is not actually homosexual, but also because it's such a bad word to use. I feel so guilty because I would never say that to anyone, regardless of their orientation. I respect the LGBTQ community, and think of anyone the same way I think of any other human being, as being a good person of equal worth in the world. The reason I write this here is because I don't have any close friends from the LGBTQ community, who I can talk with about this. This post is not even a question, more like something I wanted to get off my mind and say in a forum that. I hope you understand, and thank you for reading.