Hello, as you might know me from few last posts I am Schizophrenic, with paranoia, depression, OCD and anxiety.
Through my life, i suffered many types of anxiety - starting with social, morning, situational and in the end - generalized anxiety.
As I have personally experienced, in many cases, anxiety can be culprit for causing depression, OCD and make other mental Illnesses to appear from hiding like manic depression or even schizophrenia. As far we know, anxiety elevates cortisol (stress hormone) and adrenaline (fight or flight trigger). Anxiety also affects our response to dopamine and serotonin and can disrupt our ability to absorb or even produce hormones, for example: food might taste abnormal when stressed and cigarette or an alcoholic drink might make your hands shaking and as we know anxiety is one of leading causes of failed sexual intercourse and constant Insomnia.
In this thread I hope we talk about our accidents or incidents that made us to feel anxious (or period) and help each other cope or even rationalize the fear or something or someone and decide if this threat is truly dangerous.
I encourage using this format as I will introduce myself (Main focus anxiety, but i encourage mention any complications that it lead to):
Age: 26
Gender: male
Diagnsosis: Schizophrenia, Major depressive disorder, Anxiety and Panic attacks that lead to OCD
Main symptoms caused by anxiety: Difficulty forming sentences, running delusional thoughts during panic attack, difficult maintaining eye contact, being often frustrated and causing external swearing, difficulty getting to know people and remembering names, difficulty achieving erection and having intercourse, difficulty laughing at jokes and smiling.
Breaking point: My father's funeral when I was 9 years old, started skipping school, was afraid to leave the house, also was constantly bullying from that age.
Anxiety triggers: New places (Hate travelling), New workplace, talking with a customer, making writing or speech errors, going on a date, sleeping too little, talking about sex, formal paperwork, too much coffee also triggers me, big social gatherings (like funeral, family gatherings, work meetings) and hungover (stopped completely drinking)
Medication used: Xanax and clonazepam during panic attacks (trying to avoid unnecessary doses), Escitalopram 5mg daily, Risperidone 3mg daily.
Other coping Mechanisms: smoking and chain smoking during and after panic attack, breathing out heavily often, exercising as often as possible, wringing my hands, being alone as much as possible during my free time, playing a lot of video games.
Last time you felt anxious: This morning when i signed employment papers with my employer, felt disorganized and made some grammar errors while filling in papers, also forgot to give some papers and had to go back and felt frustrated as my employer went somewhere else, I was swearing and smoked a lot, made me shaky a bit, later I took a long and hot shower and felt i little better.
Through my life, i suffered many types of anxiety - starting with social, morning, situational and in the end - generalized anxiety.
As I have personally experienced, in many cases, anxiety can be culprit for causing depression, OCD and make other mental Illnesses to appear from hiding like manic depression or even schizophrenia. As far we know, anxiety elevates cortisol (stress hormone) and adrenaline (fight or flight trigger). Anxiety also affects our response to dopamine and serotonin and can disrupt our ability to absorb or even produce hormones, for example: food might taste abnormal when stressed and cigarette or an alcoholic drink might make your hands shaking and as we know anxiety is one of leading causes of failed sexual intercourse and constant Insomnia.
In this thread I hope we talk about our accidents or incidents that made us to feel anxious (or period) and help each other cope or even rationalize the fear or something or someone and decide if this threat is truly dangerous.
I encourage using this format as I will introduce myself (Main focus anxiety, but i encourage mention any complications that it lead to):
Age: 26
Gender: male
Diagnsosis: Schizophrenia, Major depressive disorder, Anxiety and Panic attacks that lead to OCD
Main symptoms caused by anxiety: Difficulty forming sentences, running delusional thoughts during panic attack, difficult maintaining eye contact, being often frustrated and causing external swearing, difficulty getting to know people and remembering names, difficulty achieving erection and having intercourse, difficulty laughing at jokes and smiling.
Breaking point: My father's funeral when I was 9 years old, started skipping school, was afraid to leave the house, also was constantly bullying from that age.
Anxiety triggers: New places (Hate travelling), New workplace, talking with a customer, making writing or speech errors, going on a date, sleeping too little, talking about sex, formal paperwork, too much coffee also triggers me, big social gatherings (like funeral, family gatherings, work meetings) and hungover (stopped completely drinking)
Medication used: Xanax and clonazepam during panic attacks (trying to avoid unnecessary doses), Escitalopram 5mg daily, Risperidone 3mg daily.
Other coping Mechanisms: smoking and chain smoking during and after panic attack, breathing out heavily often, exercising as often as possible, wringing my hands, being alone as much as possible during my free time, playing a lot of video games.
Last time you felt anxious: This morning when i signed employment papers with my employer, felt disorganized and made some grammar errors while filling in papers, also forgot to give some papers and had to go back and felt frustrated as my employer went somewhere else, I was swearing and smoked a lot, made me shaky a bit, later I took a long and hot shower and felt i little better.
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