jk1 wrote:
I think mine is more like social anxiety than general. I actually don't know exactly what different kinds of anxiety mean. I worry a lot about many things and get distressed when there actually isn't anything to worry about. I'm generally feeling negative most of the time without any particular thoughts in my mind.
But I get the distinct "butterfly in the stomach" feeling whenever I am or am going to be with other people. Sometimes I can't even hold a coffee cup because my hand shakes too much and spills the content when I'm with others. This is social anxiety, I believe.
There's been a period of time when I was extremely stressed about a particular thing for about two weeks. Even after the cause of the stress was resolved, I couldn't shake off the anxious feeling and I got a very intense anxious feeling sometimes for no reason. That was awful. There was no escape from that. The psychologist was incompetent and the medication did nothing. I seriously feared that I would never recover from that. But fortunately, I gradually recovered from it without any therapy. I don't if I can call this anxiety that I had in the past general anxiety.
Now I am just a very negative person with social anxiety, I think. Still feeling far better than that awful period of time.
when i have to do something as simple as calling a person on the phone, i get anxious. i hate calling people on the phone. it's stressful. i'd rather write an email.
28 Jan 2013, 1:02 pm
