You know what I do to deal with anxiety? Do you know what it was that helped me ultimately cope?
Jokes! I make jokes about everything. I won't make these jokes for you, but make jokes about how you have MS or something. Make it not scary. What you have to do is make light of it. You might not believe me, but humor is actually a tested (and effective) ego defense mechanism! It really does help you a lot. Can you try that?
Jokes! I make jokes about everything. I won't make these jokes for you, but make jokes about how you have MS or something. Make it not scary. What you have to do is make light of it. You might not believe me, but humor is actually a tested (and effective) ego defense mechanism! It really does help you a lot. Can you try that?
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I Marc do solemnly swear to STOP reading the BLOODY Internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I promise you Marc, IF you punch in your symptoms enough you WILL diagnose yourself with Chinese Chicken Vaginal Polyps!!!! NOW explain that one to the doctor!!!!!
I have friends with MS, let me tell you that is an END stage thing - the twitching, it starts off much more subtle And you DO NOT have either MS or ALS!!! I know you KNOW that but you have to tell yourself that. I promise you that your "twitching" will have a hell of a lot to do with COKE COLA!!! Sleep deprevation, terrible diet, not enough deep sleep, being WIRED to the max! Also do you do the energy drink thing? I know that is VERY common now, my son's cardiologist told him "They're a death sentence!!!!" So be careful of ANY stimulant when you are already dealing with anxiety! You need to learn to relax and take a breather! IF you diagnose yourself you WILL have everything and anything! So please don't do that anymore OK?
I promise you Marc, IF you punch in your symptoms enough you WILL diagnose yourself with Chinese Chicken Vaginal Polyps!!!! NOW explain that one to the doctor!!!!!
I have friends with MS, let me tell you that is an END stage thing - the twitching, it starts off much more subtle And you DO NOT have either MS or ALS!!! I know you KNOW that but you have to tell yourself that. I promise you that your "twitching" will have a hell of a lot to do with COKE COLA!!! Sleep deprevation, terrible diet, not enough deep sleep, being WIRED to the max! Also do you do the energy drink thing? I know that is VERY common now, my son's cardiologist told him "They're a death sentence!!!!" So be careful of ANY stimulant when you are already dealing with anxiety! You need to learn to relax and take a breather! IF you diagnose yourself you WILL have everything and anything! So please don't do that anymore OK?
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LOL yeah jokes help don't they :-) another thing i do alot is use the pc :-) i sit there for hours and hours playing games :-( well ever since i have lost my will to see my friends :-( could that be related?? also sometimes i wake up and my whole arm is numb like it is not ther lol tho saying that this has not happened for a long time, yeah i used to drink energy drinks all the time every day, but i have not had one of those in a couple of weeks, but the other day i drank like 8 cans of pepsi max in one day and drank the rest the following day lol it was a 12 pack, i read diet coke and such can cause muscle twitching? i know my diet is really bad sometimes i don't even eat all day maybe just a piece of tast, most days i live on toast lol but i know one thing, i never eat veg or fruit :-( maybe i should change my diet??
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! ;-) XD I think you should keep on with the dozen Pepsi MAX!!!! Start smoking! Eat WHITE Toast, becasue you don't want any fiber, Drink coffee while smoking - because along with the anxiety you will NEED that bad breath! Keep laying on your arm to continue with the numbness! Continue playing video games, because it helps your eyes not to twitch because you DON'T BLINK!!!!! Stay indoors, preferably with the door closed to stop ANY ventilation! Don't answer the phone as it is probably a friend just asking you to go out anyway! This is the ONLY way to get healthy! And MEN rule the world?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8-| ;-) XD
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marcc64 wrote:
bambi was using sarcasm to make jokes for you! You need to try to get your diet under control. Believe it or not but what you eat can make you more or less anxious. Caffeine is AWFUL for anxiety and I will tell you right now: you will not get over anxiety if you don't kick caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco to the curb for a month or two. You can start drinking again later, but right now, you need to help rid yourself of anxiety. Trust me, I can drink coffee all day long now, but it used to make me SUPER anxious, so back down for now, okay? The next thing to do is try to get outside. It is helpful that you post here but do try to interact with real people beyond the computer, okay? The computer just makes you more depressed.
Last but not least, eat a salad! They help. Spinach and tomatoes and a lot of other vegetables actually have anxiety reducing properties as well. Just try it out...
^^^^LOL confusing :? lol
bambi was using sarcasm to make jokes for you! You need to try to get your diet under control. Believe it or not but what you eat can make you more or less anxious. Caffeine is AWFUL for anxiety and I will tell you right now: you will not get over anxiety if you don't kick caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco to the curb for a month or two. You can start drinking again later, but right now, you need to help rid yourself of anxiety. Trust me, I can drink coffee all day long now, but it used to make me SUPER anxious, so back down for now, okay? The next thing to do is try to get outside. It is helpful that you post here but do try to interact with real people beyond the computer, okay? The computer just makes you more depressed.
Last but not least, eat a salad! They help. Spinach and tomatoes and a lot of other vegetables actually have anxiety reducing properties as well. Just try it out...
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I wish there was an Emoticon for sarcasm!!! Being British it's in my blood, but I'm pretty sure Marc - you being British too - that you knew I was kidding/sarcastic RIGHT?!!!!!! o.O
HFG - thus the name - is right, you HAVE to start being better about your diet and sleeping etc. I just finished talking to a good girlfriend of mine whose grandson has ADHD! He is supposed to NOT have ANYTIME on video games and on the computer - you know why? Because all that stimulation just messes and irritates him more! It's TOO MUCH stimulation. Same for you and anyone else with Anxiety!
Like I stated stop reading and diagnosing OK? And get out there and enjoy the summer! Start doing soccer/football whatever it takes to get you out of the dungeon of darkenss and flashing screens into air and light and friends! depression is a very solitary illness and IF you continue to be like this it WILL be harder for you to fight back.
I have a crippling physical problem, and sometimes I get COMPLETELY fed up and pissed off at everything, and I don't want to go out with my pretty slim girlfriends and go for lunch while their wearing the Gucci Glasses and drinking wine and tanning on the patio! I want to stay home in my frumy baggy shorts and not go out with my can and handicapped sticker. BUT I HAVE to do it, I will go litterally insane if I stay in here all day. I went out with my friends on Friday and LOVED every second of it. I am the matron of honor at one of my oldest friends wedding in September, all I keep thinking is "I WILL go I WILL go!" Can you imagine if I don't stand up for her, because I don't want to go out on that day? I know its hard honey I KNOW! BUT you HAVE to make yourself get healthy and get the hell out of the house and hang with your friends. It is FAR easier to stay in and grumble than going out and mingling. BUT you CAN do it! And eat a bloody salad with turkey OK?
HFG - thus the name - is right, you HAVE to start being better about your diet and sleeping etc. I just finished talking to a good girlfriend of mine whose grandson has ADHD! He is supposed to NOT have ANYTIME on video games and on the computer - you know why? Because all that stimulation just messes and irritates him more! It's TOO MUCH stimulation. Same for you and anyone else with Anxiety!
Like I stated stop reading and diagnosing OK? And get out there and enjoy the summer! Start doing soccer/football whatever it takes to get you out of the dungeon of darkenss and flashing screens into air and light and friends! depression is a very solitary illness and IF you continue to be like this it WILL be harder for you to fight back.
I have a crippling physical problem, and sometimes I get COMPLETELY fed up and pissed off at everything, and I don't want to go out with my pretty slim girlfriends and go for lunch while their wearing the Gucci Glasses and drinking wine and tanning on the patio! I want to stay home in my frumy baggy shorts and not go out with my can and handicapped sticker. BUT I HAVE to do it, I will go litterally insane if I stay in here all day. I went out with my friends on Friday and LOVED every second of it. I am the matron of honor at one of my oldest friends wedding in September, all I keep thinking is "I WILL go I WILL go!" Can you imagine if I don't stand up for her, because I don't want to go out on that day? I know its hard honey I KNOW! BUT you HAVE to make yourself get healthy and get the hell out of the house and hang with your friends. It is FAR easier to stay in and grumble than going out and mingling. BUT you CAN do it! And eat a bloody salad with turkey OK?
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marcc64 wrote:
Marc, I haven't heard from you in awhile...how are you doing? I just want to make sure that you're doing okay and that things are going well for you. Let me know, okay?
^^^^LOL confusing :? lol
Marc, I haven't heard from you in awhile...how are you doing? I just want to make sure that you're doing okay and that things are going well for you. Let me know, okay?
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Hey guys :-) sorry i aint replied in a while. been quite busy lately lol yeah I'm ok i guess, of course my fear has not gone still :-( my new major worry is a brain tumor :-( twitching has vanished all most, just feel like there must be something physical wrong withe me because of all these weird sensations :-( really annoying, guess i wont be happy until i get a MRI of the head, even then i bet so0mething new will pop up. How are you guys?
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Hi hon! You DON'T have a brain tumour!!! I bet you KNEW I was going to say that didn't you?! ;-) XD When our brains are affected by an illness or an addiction, it is as though there is an out of body experiencing happening - kind of thing! Your brain is NOT coping with things, and sends out ALL these wild signals (such as twitching and breathing difficulties etc) because it CANNOT comprehend what is happening to it! Kind of like a mainframe computer having a virus and it goes TOTALLY haywire trying to fix this virus - that it thinks is in other computers, but is actually in IT!! - so our practical brain CANNOT under ANY circumstances grasp that it is IT that is ill!! As you stated, even if you had an MRI and was shown that there is NOTHING wrong, you would still think there is!!
I don't know if I ever told you about something that happened to me, but here goes and bare with me if I'm repeating myself OK? I consider myself a pretty intelligent person, I UNDERSTAND people better than most, I self monitor myself, I am ALWAYS taking Stock of the situations around me! So when I became an addict - EVERYONE around me knew I was! - I didn't know!! I truly thought life was this way and there was NOTHING wrong with my twitching, my itchiness, my shaking leg and my snapping at my loved ones! I went to a walk in clinic once and this doctor - who basically was just putting his time in - said to me "I think you're addicted to these pills!" I was SHOCKED!!! o.O I looked at him with TOTAL disgust and stated "I CAN'T BE ADDICTED, BECAUSE I FEEL BETTER WHEN I'M ON THEM!!!!" 8-| He looked at me like this o.O And in my mind - the one last little bit of my brain that was stll not addicted was like WTH!!! WAS THAT!!!?" I started at that moment thinking that "PERHAPS" I had a problem! But it wasn't till seeing the movie Ray - about Ray Charles - that I saw myself on the big screen!!!! I was starting to shake an my leg was going up and down, and RIGHT at that moment on the screen was Ray Charles shaking!!! I will never forget that moment! It was like a lightening bolt hit me!!! I lent over to my girlfriend and whispered, "That's me!!!" And that started the ball rolling!! I had to FIGHT tooth and nail against my "sick side of my brain" It was SO hard! But I did it! And you will too honey! You just need some help!
HAve you seen a psychologist or psychiatrist about your anxiety/depression? If not I think it's time for you to! And get some help! You would if you had an infection right? Same thing here!
Hope you are enjoying the rain!! Just like us, we have flooding and hail storms virtually the entire so called Summer! But whenever the sun does come out, get out there OK? :-)
I don't know if I ever told you about something that happened to me, but here goes and bare with me if I'm repeating myself OK? I consider myself a pretty intelligent person, I UNDERSTAND people better than most, I self monitor myself, I am ALWAYS taking Stock of the situations around me! So when I became an addict - EVERYONE around me knew I was! - I didn't know!! I truly thought life was this way and there was NOTHING wrong with my twitching, my itchiness, my shaking leg and my snapping at my loved ones! I went to a walk in clinic once and this doctor - who basically was just putting his time in - said to me "I think you're addicted to these pills!" I was SHOCKED!!! o.O I looked at him with TOTAL disgust and stated "I CAN'T BE ADDICTED, BECAUSE I FEEL BETTER WHEN I'M ON THEM!!!!" 8-| He looked at me like this o.O And in my mind - the one last little bit of my brain that was stll not addicted was like WTH!!! WAS THAT!!!?" I started at that moment thinking that "PERHAPS" I had a problem! But it wasn't till seeing the movie Ray - about Ray Charles - that I saw myself on the big screen!!!! I was starting to shake an my leg was going up and down, and RIGHT at that moment on the screen was Ray Charles shaking!!! I will never forget that moment! It was like a lightening bolt hit me!!! I lent over to my girlfriend and whispered, "That's me!!!" And that started the ball rolling!! I had to FIGHT tooth and nail against my "sick side of my brain" It was SO hard! But I did it! And you will too honey! You just need some help!
HAve you seen a psychologist or psychiatrist about your anxiety/depression? If not I think it's time for you to! And get some help! You would if you had an infection right? Same thing here!
Hope you are enjoying the rain!! Just like us, we have flooding and hail storms virtually the entire so called Summer! But whenever the sun does come out, get out there OK? :-)
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marcc64 wrote:
I'm doing good Marc. I can tell you it's probably not going to turn out to be a brain tumor. Let me put it to you this way.
The fear you're feeling right now is normal. It's like what our caveman (and woman) ancestors felt when they had a tiger coming at them. Only now, you're feeling fear because a wire crossed in your head a little (and it's normal, that happens to some people) and now it's like you've got a tiger coming at you, but there's no tiger there. So your brain finds things to be afraid of. Remember when I told you to make jokes? Start making them. You can't be afraid and amused at the same time. So whenever you feel anxious, joke about it! I swear to you, it works like a charm. I'd make a joke about the brain tumor having a tumor of its own or something. :) What do you think?
Hey guys :) sorry i aint replied in a while. been quite busy lately lol yeah I'm ok i guess, of course my fear has not gone still :( my new major worry is a brain tumor :( twitching has vanished all most, just feel like there must be something physical wrong withe me because of all these weird sensations :( really annoying, guess i wont be happy until i get a MRI of the head, even then i bet so0mething new will pop up. How are you guys?
I'm doing good Marc. I can tell you it's probably not going to turn out to be a brain tumor. Let me put it to you this way.
The fear you're feeling right now is normal. It's like what our caveman (and woman) ancestors felt when they had a tiger coming at them. Only now, you're feeling fear because a wire crossed in your head a little (and it's normal, that happens to some people) and now it's like you've got a tiger coming at you, but there's no tiger there. So your brain finds things to be afraid of. Remember when I told you to make jokes? Start making them. You can't be afraid and amused at the same time. So whenever you feel anxious, joke about it! I swear to you, it works like a charm. I'd make a joke about the brain tumor having a tumor of its own or something. :) What do you think?
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Yeah I understand worrying and that but how can anxiety make these physical symptoms happen and for such a long time?? I mean the only reason I am worrying is because i have these physical symptoms which is making my anxiety soooo bad :-( why aint it like last time? when i had breathing issues 5 years back and went to the A&E had chest x-ray done got told nothing wrong with me so as soon as i left the hospital it went like that :-) but now it's back and that time when i went to the A&E and had many more tests than last time, and got told the same thing, you would think that i would forget about it and it would vanish like last time right? but nope i started worrying much more thinking they missed something, then i thought OK they must be right and along came other symptoms to replace my breathing issue :-( :-( DAM ANXIETY :-( you forget about one thing and along comes another to worry about.
Do you think last time i forgot about it because back then i didn't really know about all the cancers and other horrible stuff?? but this time i did and thought it MUST be one of them? ahh so difficult to understand this bloody awful thing. LOL
Do you think last time i forgot about it because back then i didn't really know about all the cancers and other horrible stuff?? but this time i did and thought it MUST be one of them? ahh so difficult to understand this bloody awful thing. LOL
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Hi Bambi :) Na summer here been great :) hot weather and clear blue skys :) shame i don't go out like i sued to and enjoy it :( i at nsted sat at home looking out watching everyone else enjoying their selves :( I really wish i could re wind time back to the summer of 07 :) ahhhh best year of my life that was :) 16 years old and loving life and everyone around me :) yeah i may have been getting drunk in the local park with my m8's LOL but it was harmless fun :) and i loved that year :) summer 08 was ok as well just me and my girlfriend all summer :) ok i was having the occasional panic attack, but i was having a bit of hard time near the end of 08 ( the baby and that which i told you about) then along cam 09 and my god what a c**p year this has been :( broke up with the girl i was with for two years :( and lost my baby with her :( and with this Health Anxiety just to top it all off :(
Don't know if you know about that site, but it's great :) i have been addicted to that site.
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It's not aint it is HASN'T!!!!! ;-) XD
The reason why you have different symptoms is that your "Logical" brain can NOT even comprehend, that it is that there is something wrong with IT!!!! As far as it is concerned it HAS to be something else! It is just like being addicted, you can't even comprehend being addicted! The brain protects itself and thus you! So it is just like a Main Frame Computer knows there's a virus, so it thinks that it is the other computers that are affected, so it will send out ALL these Error Messages!!! It doesn't comprehend that it is IT that has the problem! So makes everything worse! It is EXACTLY the same scenario, due to the fact that our Brains are our mainframe!
Does that make sense? Are you on any medications Marc or seeing anyone - Psychiatrist, Psychologist etc? You do need help to get back to normality! You have suffered for quite awhile already, and HFG and I have been talking to another young guy on here and he has finally been put on an anti depressent. I can't be a hypocrite about saying NO to someone else - about going on anti depressents - when I am on them! I just worry about the age of young people being put on them! Has your doctor brought that up to you?
The reason why you have different symptoms is that your "Logical" brain can NOT even comprehend, that it is that there is something wrong with IT!!!! As far as it is concerned it HAS to be something else! It is just like being addicted, you can't even comprehend being addicted! The brain protects itself and thus you! So it is just like a Main Frame Computer knows there's a virus, so it thinks that it is the other computers that are affected, so it will send out ALL these Error Messages!!! It doesn't comprehend that it is IT that has the problem! So makes everything worse! It is EXACTLY the same scenario, due to the fact that our Brains are our mainframe!
Does that make sense? Are you on any medications Marc or seeing anyone - Psychiatrist, Psychologist etc? You do need help to get back to normality! You have suffered for quite awhile already, and HFG and I have been talking to another young guy on here and he has finally been put on an anti depressent. I can't be a hypocrite about saying NO to someone else - about going on anti depressents - when I am on them! I just worry about the age of young people being put on them! Has your doctor brought that up to you?
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HI, no all i am taking is Kalms tablet (bit c**p if you ask me lol) and multi vitamins :-) lol is that bad? 18 year old guy being on them??? and no i aint (haven't) LOL been to the doc yet :-( my dad said it's best to wait til he has a car (getting one in about a week) then he going to take me :-) hope it's before college. AHHHHHHH college starts soon OMG i hope i feel better by then.
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