Generalized Anxiety Disorder makes me think too much.
Right now I am obsessing about something that is bothering me. I just can’t shut off my brain. I just can’t stop thinking about this particular issue, which is something involving my family that I have absolutely no control over. Yet my overactive brain refuses to let go of this. My mind continues to torture me mercilessly by making me think and rethink and worry and dwell on this issue. What a waste of time and energy. What a shame. Here I am, completely aware of what my brain is doing to me, and yet unable to get a grip on these thoughts. And I am taking anti-anxiety medications which work well. Imagine if I were not taking these medications?
It is important to accept the fact that anxiety disorder is never cured and it will rear its grizzly head at times despite all efforts to maintain control and inner peace.
Tags: generalized anxiety disorder, worry, over-active brain, over-thinking, anti-anxiety medication
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- Author : freebird
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I so know what you’re talking about — sometimes my brain get’s into this worry-spiral and I just can’t shut it off (especially when I’m laying in bed at 3am trying to fall back asleep). It’s amazing how ‘thinking too much’ leaves one unable to actually really think at all — I can’t focus with all the obsessive thoughts swirling around in my brain!!!
I take an ativan (prescribed by a psychiatrist) when my obsessive worrying/thinking gets too out of control and starts to make me feel physically ill (nauseous, headache, tired, etc). It helps a little bit. A tip the doctor told me to get it to kick in quicker is to put it under your tongue and let it disolve (doesn’t taste as bad as you’d think) — it works faster that way than when you swallow it with water..
Thanks so much for writing about your experiences with anxiety! It’s really great to see I’m not alone in my world of worry and that you are finding some relief for yourself (which I’m trying to do, too)
Keep up the writing! I hope more people are brave enough to comment and thank you for your hard work (it is so difficult to reveal your most vulnerable personal problems on the internet!)
Hi
I used to be like that but then i realised something….THIS WORLD SUCKS!Nomatter what you do everyday is unpredicatble and is a potential problem (or similarly a potential and pleasant surprise!), so i stopped giving a sh$! cos it doesnt matter at the end. sometimes i think its the fact that we are so obsessed with our own imperfections and worry about that that it takes over us and worries us to death. no one is perfect if i make a mistake i now get happy and instead of saying OH NO DESPAIR!!!!! I say YES YOU BUMS DESERVE IT!…lol (Even though they might not but we have to make mistakes and that wont count against me cos im human and i accept and cherish this fact).
dont hold on too tighly to life and start enjoying the moments dont worry about things because God has everything in his power and if he wants something to happen it will happen regardless. try to be the best person you can and if you make a mistake or someone makes a mistake then we are all human….its cool.its ok..things dont need to be perfect….things are beautiful when there not perfect.
Hi,
my mind races almost all hours of the day. I have a boring security job which only allows me to think and dwell on things that make me upset such as my past or what is going on in the present. I’m only 18 years old and never felt like this before. Sometimes I worry so much it makes me lose my appetite or have other uneasy feelings. Certain issues in my life pop up uncontrollably at least a few times an hour and I really want to get a grip on things. I dont wanna take medication really but if this doesnt stop then i fear I may have to. If any medications or suggestions you know could help I’d appreciate it.
Hi,
I just wanted to say that i’m suffering from severe generalized anxiety for about 10 years now. I was a healthy happy boy when i was young, i enjoyed life, school, friendship etc. The disease just took over my entire life when i was sixteen gradually and destroyed much about everything, like a tornado. Despite the disease ruined my life, i managed to get my master and got a girlfriend for about a year now (i met her when i began taking lorazepam and the symptoms flew away).
I’m thinking almost everytime about my possible problem. The doctors, psychiatres ans psychologues missdiagnosed me with narcissism and i had psychotherapy for about one year in a clinic (can you imagine!). They stood there, watched me and nobody thought about anxiety! I’m taking drugs now, but it doesn’t work anymore. Valium, Xanax and Lyrica, they all gave me tolerance. My life is a big mess right now. My brains can’t stop thinking about problems and possible disasters, even if i know rationally that it doesn’t relate to real problems, an object or real situation.
I’m pretty sure now that it has to do with a neurological problem, a disrupted amygdala system probably caused by a low level of GABA or a high level of glutamine. The things that make me scary about GAD is that it lasts whole your life. I just cant accept that! I’m willing to fight this monster. Scientists, please work on this subject! It hasn’t got it’s full recognition yet.
Holland,
If there are medications to make your life happy, don’t hesitate to take them. Don’t pesreverate on self pity cause u have this condition. Just take care of it. If you had diabetes, that would be for life too. Having GAD is not the end of the world, unless you continue to allow yourself to be misdiagnosed and mistreated. Good luck!
Holland, I think you are onto something when you mentioned high level of glutamine. I had extensive testing done, and that was one of some other glaring things going on with me. I am going to a doctor that I buy a toxic cleaning protein powder through the company named Metametrix. They also conducted the lab work. GAD and bipolar both are name tags that have been attached to me. Through 6 yrs of trying every medication with only toxic side effects for me, I knew I had to attack this from another direction rather than the psy conventional doctors. Get on Metametrix lab website and find a doctor who will work with/through them. I also found out a hypothyroid condition exists and it also messes you up.
hi
i just wanted to say after readin alld above comments dat m happy dt m nt d only one whu thinks way too much n messes miself up mentally n physically. it rily sux…i obsess over a pointless issue for hours n hours n hours….thinking of all d possible ifs and buts…making promises to miself..its like m trapped in a world of my own….my brain is sorta stuck in a maze unable to find its way out.Its HARROWING!! very harrowing …especially wen i kno dat d thing m thinkin of is absolutely pointless and smthng which i wud luk bak at in d future n laf at!!! It sux sux sux!!!!!…fukin anxiety disorders..!
I knew that thinking too much was my problem before even being told about it, and sadly that is where I think the root of my anxiety stems from. For example, a few days ago I ate a pizza with a friend and felt nauseous afterwards to the point where I excused myself to go to the bathroom. Then yesterday whilst I was *preparing* a pizza and salad for my friends and I, I started worrying about my most recent experience and how it would feel, what they might think and where I’d go to be sick should I start to feel the same way. The anxiety I developed through thinking about the pizza made me feel sick and so I ate as little as possible.
The constant thinking about the ‘what ifs?’ plague my life and sometimes I wish I could just switch off my brain so that I could get on with things. Sound familiar?