Life is becoming to hard

[John101]

Hi there, im 17 and live in the UK. I am really strugeling at the moment with life because of repeated anxiety attacks. It seems as if im fine and then when i make plans to do something i get real nervous and shakey. I worry about it for days or weeks until the event comes round and then i cant go. I also sometimes feel asif when i am having an attack that nothing is real, not even my life. This problem started when i was around 14 and seems to be getting worse and worse as time goes by.

Can anybody help.......................please reply if you can

John.

 

[sabbath92001]

Hi John, welcome to SPW!

Anticipatory anxiety (AA) is one of the worse things about Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). AA leads to avoidance and having your life stolen by SAD. After all the years I've struggled with SAD, the best treatment I've found is Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is similar to CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), but is better in my opinion. I've only done ACT thru self-help workbooks, but it has helped me a lot.

 

[of_darkness]

Hi, i'm 17 from the UK too!

Your case sounds pretty physical, i don't tend to get shakey and vervous, i just switch off completely and become nothing.

Could you elaborate a litte? Maybe people cold help you if we understood more about the problems.

Do you hav general lack of self confidence and feel paranoid quite a lot around groups of people? That seems to be a common thing here..You just need to accept that you're actually very much the same as everyone else, but just got to a terrible start at some point. Is it the people you're anxious about?

I hope that helps in some way, but i don't really know what your actual problem is right now apart from having panic attacks.