Who else also has 24/7 anxiety/stress

[ChocolateCroissant]

As the title says, there must be others here outside of me. It's been a huge factor in making my life a living hell. For the past 10 years I've had 24/7- wake to sleep stress. No day off. I am impaired on mental and physical levels by it.

Just wondering because I don't want to feel alone about it anymore...

much love and peace to you all today

 

[Soulless Angel]

I live with it a lot, I can be sat on a chair minding my own business when bam, my stomach starts, I want to throw up, I feel shakey, my heart starts pounding etc, there is no damn need for it, stress is there too, I have accepted it's part of me, much as I loathe it

 

[Meditation guide]

I don't want to feel alone about it anymore...

You are not alone about this. I have terror, panic, nervousness, fear, anxiety, stress that is through the roof every second. It causes all kinds of horrible physical symptoms.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

As the title says, there must be others here outside of me. It's been a huge factor in making my life a living hell. For the past 10 years I've had 24/7- wake to sleep stress. No day off. I am impaired on mental and physical levels by it.

Just wondering because I don't want to feel alone about it anymore...

much love and peace to you all today

Pretty much, but the level of intensity varies with my mood.
But I can spend months with high levels of stress and panic 24/7.
I'm hoping it will just kill me one day if I haven't ctb first.
Is there a specific cause for your stress (i.e. work) or is it just generally related to depression and anxiety?

It causes all kinds of horrible physical symptoms.

What are the physical symptoms with you?
I get tingling/throbbing/weakness sensations in different parts of the body.
I have done mri's but they never found anything so they said it must be related to high levels of anxiety and stress

 

[ChocolateCroissant]

You are not alone about this. I have terror, panic, nervousness, fear, anxiety, stress that is through the roof every second. It causes all kinds of horrible physical symptoms.

I'm "glad" to know I'm not alone. Have you had it for a long time too? I've always been anxious but the last 10 years I can't get a second without it.

 

[purplesmoothie]

Yes ss helps distract from it

 

[TotallyIsolated]

I have mouth ulcers something like 50 weeks of the year. Constant low-level stress and anxiety means they never have a chance to heal.

 

[ChocolateCroissant]

Pretty much, but the level of intensity varies with my mood.
But I can spend months with high levels of stress and panic 24/7.
I'm hoping it will just kill me one day if I haven't ctb first.
Is there a specific cause for your stress (i.e. work) or is it just generally related to depression and anxiety?

What are the physical symptoms with you?
I get tingling/throbbing/weakness sensations in different parts of the body.
I have done mri's but they never found anything so they said it must be related to high levels of anxiety and stress

every little thing causes me to be stressed. Like benign innocuous things like a lamp. I will worry it will fall over, or if I sit, the chair will collapse. But other things too like health, finances, obsessing over the future and such. How about for you? What makes you worry?

 

[XYZ]

It's been a huge factor in making my life a living hell.

This ^^
I wish I could go numb and not feel anything anymore.

 

[ChocolateCroissant]

I have mouth ulcers something like 50 weeks of the year. Constant low-level stress and anxiety means they never have a chance to heal.

That sounds like it'd be so painful to eat and stuff. What gives you the constant low level stress?

 

[XYZ]

I have mouth ulcers something like 50 weeks of the year. Constant low-level stress and anxiety means they never have a chance to heal.

I get those too. Fucking painful. Always caused by stress.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

every little thing causes me to be stressed. Like benign innocuous things like a lamp. I will worry it will fall over, or if I sit, the chair will collapse. But other things too like health, finances, obsessing over the future and such. How about for you? What makes you worry?

I don't get stressed over tiny little things, but mainly about my health and worry about the future, and the fact that I may never have a 'normal' life because I fail to see meaning in existence, and am generally just a very pessimistic person.
I'm just not motivated a lot of the time, so I just drift and this causes stress and anxiety, on top of worry about health etc.
What you're going through with stress sounds difficult to cope with. Have you tried things like cognitive behavioral therapy?

 

[incognito]

The same happens to me.

 

[TotallyIsolated]

That sounds like it'd be so painful to eat and stuff. What gives you the constant low level stress?

Hating life. Being late for work every day. Pretending to be able cope and that I'm not falling apart.

 

[DeathNoot]

Yup that pretty much describes my existence

 

[AllReturnsToNothing]

I started taking meds for my anxiety and depression a couple of years ago. They don't work all that well for depression but they work well for anxiety considering if I miss a dose for only a few hours then I start convulsing from the sheer pain that the anxiety brings.

 

[Nature_is_God]

Yep, and this is why I'm pessimistic and don't believe that "the grass is greener on the other side". The fallacy that if something changes in my life, that I will somehow become stress-free and happy, is outrageous. I will always find anxiety no matter where I'm at in life, and I accept that.

Evolution's worst mistake was giving human's the ability of advanced abstract thinking.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

I started taking meds for my anxiety and depression a couple of years ago. They don't work all that well for depression but they work well for anxiety considering if I miss a dose for only a few hours then I start convulsing from the sheer pain that the anxiety brings.

What meds do you take if you don't mind me asking?

I will always find anxiety no matter where I'm at in life, and I accept that.

Evolution's worst mistake was giving human's the ability of advanced abstract thinking.

I agree.
I feel that I will always have anxiety about something or other. Even being free of anxiety causes me anxiety as I worry why I'm not anxious about something.

I go along with your view on abstract thinking. The higher the level of consciousness, the greater the possibility of suffering. I see advanced consciousness and the abstract and self-aware cognition that goes along with it as a monstrous evolutionary blunder.

 

[AllReturnsToNothing]

What meds do you take if you don't mind me asking?

Venlafaxine Hydrochloride. It's a generic brand of Effexor. There are always side effects for different people and it all depends on your brain chemistry so your mileage may vary.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Venlafaxine Hydrochloride. It's a generic brand of Effexor. There are always side effects for different people and it all depends on your brain chemistry so your mileage may vary.

Ok.
I am generally worried about antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds, as I hear people say it messed up their brain chemistry, ruined their lives etc.

 

[rt1989526]

I do, in addition to some distressing physical problems. It's absolutely inhumane that I have to remain alive against my will like this.

 

[AllReturnsToNothing]

Ok.
I am generally worried about antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds, as I hear people say it messed up their brain chemistry, ruined their lives etc.

It'll definitely fuck you up if you take them while your young and your brain is still developing. As for me it hasn't ruined my life... yet! But I'm almost out of meds and I now have no health insurance so that'll probably be in my near future :)

 

[Wayfaerer]

Here. Well, not exactly 24/7 but that's strictly only because of self-medication. I feel hopeless 24/7 but I feel like I can tolerate my despair for a few hours out of the day thanks to phenibut/kratom. Otherwise, I'd certainly be back on an SSRI or dead.

 

[Nymph]

Me:(

 

[Gnip]

Extreme stress is deliberately created, imposed and cultivated in victims by counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists for profit. The extinction of the mental health racket would go a long way towards radically reducing stress in modern society.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

I wonder if extreme long term stress and anxiety can contribute to the chances of having a heart attack, stroke or cancer.

 

[Gnip]

I wonder if extreme long term stress and anxiety can contribute to the chances of having a heart attack, stroke or cancer.

Yes. Overeating and cigarette smoking are responses to stress. Right there, you're looking at the consequences of obesity and lung cancer.

 

[ExitTheMatrix]

Severe chronic anxiety induced chronic tension headache makes me want to blow my brains out

 

[Bauhaus]

From the moment I'm awake I feel icecold and anxious, like you just drunk 10 l coffee.
It's not in the sense that you're anxious for something specific, it's more like you have a deep lack of security, affection (not sure what the right word in English is.) The best way to describe it is that I feel like a newborn who misses the warmth of the womb. Might sound very dramatic but there's no better way to describe it.
I try to avoid anything that disrupts my daily pattern and only leave home when I have no other choice.
Opioids with low dose zopiclone or antipsychotic are the only thing that helps, the first thing I do when I'm awake is taking kratom with seroquel or olanzapine, it warms my body and relieves somewhat the anxiety.

 

[shay23]

My brain is always finding things to worry about or overthinking something, it's so tiring. Hope you find some peace soon, sending love your way.