have less anxiety

Suffering from anxiety disorders is paralyzing. I function but don’t feel like I accomplish anything. Cognitive therapy to deal with my underlying emotions is helping.

Lexapro.

Few people know that I used to get panic attacks and hives due to anxiety quite frequently during my freshman year of college. Over the course of the past four years, I have been practicing meditative techniques to calm myself down, in conjunction with therapy (for a short while). It works!

I only take my anxiety meds ‘as needed’ now. It’s nice to not depend on them, but the inconsistency has caused a few ‘almost’ panic attacks.

always a bit in-between about accomplishing this or not. i don’t have as much high anxiety now. getting a different, more stable job has helped.

additionally, i use the “stop thinking” method to stop the obsessive thinking that usu. brings on increased anxiety and that seems to work for me. unfortunately and in all honesty – i don’t think i can ever cross this off my 43 things list.

i have shown symptoms of hypochondria as far back as elementary school. i am now 19, premed at UCLA, and more of a hypochondriac than i have ever been. i had a panic attack back in january due to a nasty battle with accute hives (i seriously thought i had cancer due to the hives). i’ve always been insanely scared and anxious about cancer, auto-immune diseases (especially diabetes, hypothyroidism, lupus, etc), and all kinds of viri and bacteria. it’s ridiculous.