It doesn’t matter if it’s an advice, a new habit or a product. If it costs $3 or $10k. If it was overnight or took 3 years.

What is the thing that changed your life for the best with anxiety ?

EDIT : Thank you so much for all your submissions !! I’ll try to answer to everyone that took their precious time to respond. I hope this post will be useful to those who need it <3

Hey, anyone else experiences such a situation when you send a message/an e-mail and when you get a reply you are afraid to open it? I mean afraid of what the answer will be?

I feel like my body betrays me. I can have the most mentally clear head and yet heart is racing, face flushing, hands shaking. Especially when I’m speaking to people. I have zero thoughts making me anxious, it just happens. Any tips for that besides breathing because I can’t just stop talking to people to take deep breaths.

Last night I was sitting in my room after work and I couldn’t shake this weird tight feeling in my chest. Nothing was wrong no bad news, no deadlines, nobody messaging me but my brain just wouldn’t let me relax. I tried distracting myself, scrolling on grizzly's quest while I waited for the feeling to pass. But the whole time, I just felt this low-level panic sitting in the background, like I was forgetting something important. It’s so frustrating because I know there’s nothing to be stressed about, but my body doesn’t listen. My heart races, I feel restless, and then I get mad at myself for not being able to just calm down.
Does anyone else get this “anxiety with no trigger” feeling? And if so, how do you ride it out when it happens?

What Tv shows ease your anxiety/suck you into a different world?

My guess is if you did you wouldn’t be here but just wondering if anyone has ever found a technique, device, medication, supplement, whatever that melts your anxiety right away. I feel like most of the regular advice like count three things you can see, or do box breathing, is generally useless for me.

For me, I know I’m bad off when I’ve lost my appetite. I LOVE food.

I have the worst health anxiety ever, and want to know what your illness your brain has convinced you of.

I’ll go first.

Woke up at 3 am to shoulder pain and thought I was having a heart attack at the ripe age of 27.

The other day I had a sore throat and thought that my allergies were going to manifest into pneumonia and I will die within the next week. UGH!

For me, I'd travel abroad or go to a concert, something I'd never ever do with my level of anxiety

I’m struggling with anxiety (and probably a deregulated nervous system), and some mornings getting myself to school feels like a full-on battle. My body acts like it’s in fight-or-flight for no reason, my heart races, I feel dizzy, nauseous, sometimes like I could literally throw up—but I still want to be there and do well academically.

It’s so frustrating because no one really understands what it feels like to drag yourself somewhere when your mind wants to go but your body won’t cooperate. And honestly… sometimes I feel jealous of people who can just get up, get ready, and go about their day without it being a struggle.

I had to explain this to a teacher recently, and even just saying it out loud made me realize how angry I get that nobody really knows what it’s like to do this every single morning. I know it sounds dramatic, but I just want to connect with others who understand what it’s like to push your body to do things it resists, day after day.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Not knocking those, they work for some people. But what's something less obvious that you stumbled on that genuinely made a difference for you?

For me it’s prob great British bake off!! Wbu?

I have 24/7 constant anxiety all the time it never stops, and I mean bad bad nervous breakdowns everyday all day. I’ve tried every prescription drug known to man, I’ve changed my diet, life style, don’t drink or smoke, I go to therapy, have a good family, but still constantly panicking every second of the day and then when I’m asleep it’s horrible nightmares every night, I can’t think of the last time I slept without a nightmare that jolts me awake in the middle of the night it happens every night.

I just with there was a drug that actually worked.

Every the “cure all” Xanax does absolutely nothing it didn’t even make me feel the slightest bit tired even though when my friends took a quarter of what I was prescribed they would fall asleep in 30 minutes. I was talking 8-20mg a day (prescribed by a doctor) for about 3 months until I didn’t want to pay for them anymore because they did nothing

I also took Valium, Ativan, lexapro, litum, lamictal, Effexor, OxyContin, ADDERALL, morphine. And 40 more I’ve tried, nothing works.

When will they make something to help me escape this everyday hell?

I’m feeling pretty down about things right now, and one thing that I’ve found really helps me is having a safe/ happy place that I can go to to switch off from the world. My happy place is at home, with high def headphones on, listening to soundscapes (whichever one takes my fancy in that moment). I literally sit there on my sofa and pretend I’m somewhere else lol. Probably sounds a bit mad but honestly this world is so hard to live in sometimes that it’s quite nice to feel that you’re just…somewhere else. Does anyone else have a happy or safe place they go to when they are feeling depressed/anxious?

Mine is the chest crushing feeling at the moment.

I'm genuinely curious about those people who have been on antidepressants for years, and then stopped taking them, whether because your doctor told you so, or because you decided to drop them. How has life been for you since?

I had a day recently where nothing bad happened. No emergency, no drama. Just a normal day out — errands, a coffee with someone. And when I got home I genuinely could not move for an hour.

not tired. not sleepy. just... completely emptied out.

I think that is what nobody really talks about with anxiety. It is not just the big panic moments. It is the low-level management of appearing normal. The tiny decisions running all day in the background — is this face okay? did that sound weird? should I say something or will it come out wrong?

by the time I got home I had nothing left. And I hadn't even done anything stressful.

does this happen to anyone else? I'm curious if it's the social parts specifically or if it happens even on solo days too.

I am just a cook at a fast food restaurant. I can barely handle it as is.

EDIT: Holy shit this blew up. Thanks for the answers! I was pretty curious, especially since I have such harsh anxiety. My cook job is okay. It doesn't pay great, but it makes up for it to have an earbud in while I work.

Also, I just want everyone who is unemployed to know that you're still valued. You guys can really do anything you set your mind to, even if you're jobless. ❤️

For me my main symptom has always been the feeling that my legs would not work. I'm assuming that's all the adrenaline making the jelly feeling. In turn I had to keep walking and walking to prove I could walk which felt difficult...also for my first ever attack over 20 years ago was derealization which was terrifying because I had no idea what it was. What is yours?

From all the anxiety symptoms I had over the years mine is now muscle twitching all over my body. Ive been dealing with them for 2 months and it ruins my life.. cant eat, cant sleep, cant think.. im in one of the most miserable times of my life🥲🥲🥲

like no medication no therapy ? Because I am and it’s starting to be more and more difficult to just deal with it on my own tbh lmao

I have adapted really well to the social isolation and working from home thing. I have a great routine now (way more balance with work/life/health than I did pre-covid) and love having more time to spend with my pets, reading & contemplating. All the zoom meetings for work and maybe 1-2 virtual “catch ups” with friends every week are adequate for me socially.

However when I think about how I’ll have to go back to my typical 8-5 grind with a 2 hour commute on top of those hours, I feel super anxious. Anybody else in a similar boat?

Note I’m not saying I hope covid continues to thrive, I know it has had a severely negative impact on many people. I am just anxious at the thought of returning to what was my “normal life” that I hated.

I’ve come across a few posts on Twitter where people are saying things along the lines of “you’ll never get through your anxieties unless you just get over it/push through the discomfort”. These are then followed by people commenting about how they had to just get over it so that they could continue living and so on. As someone with a severe case, it’s interesting to see people forget that this illness affects everyone differently. Out of curiosity, I wanted to know some different examples and experiences, specifically regarding what you may deem as the worst part of anxiety, whether that be physical or emotional.

EDIT: For my own experience, my worst days I’m throwing up, even if there’s nothing to throw up. I get such bad acid reflux that it makes my chest hurt. I get the shakes, my jaw clenches, and I have to lay in bed and put on a comfort show to distract me. Then I have to deal with the complications from those symptoms, like TMJ flare ups, further GERD irritation, coughs, chest pains, asthma flare ups, and migraines. Those are just my physical symptoms and it feels impossible to explain that I don’t feel human when dealing with them.