Worrying.....

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I have had this major issue for ages, and it has been a bad thing. I cannot stop worrying about mostly everything I see, the most major cases are some rumors of a war which have scared me considering they could actually happen and disrupt my life, but hopefully it will not happen. Another common worry is death, since it's scary to think about, and when your time is up in this world. I try not to let that affect me, but some members in my family have been suffering from problems (my uncle has been in the hospital, same with mum last year) and it makes me worry about their safety, but luckily they have gotten better. Some minor ones are going into the city, trying new stuff and all that.

It feels like worrying is in the core of my heart, on the outside I appear happy and nice, but on the inside I am sad and worrying about everything, like it never stops, it slows down but it just continues like a never-ending journey in the sea, trying to find that horizon....

I remember talking about all this when I mentioned my anxiety problems (currently on medication) but this is basically a continuation because I feel the tablets have helped, but sometimes they don't and I feel that this has gotten much more serious over time. I really want to stop worrying and be a positive guy again......

I remember having similar types of anxiety when I was your age.

What I used to do: read the encyclopedia, or watch TV. We had no Internet in 1978, when I was 17. I was lucky to have a black-and-white TV in my room, with no remote.

I used to love reading an encyclopedia ( I much prefer reference books with small snippets of info ) , I found it a great way of distracting my thoughts off other things ( although I'm not 100% sure that's why I did it when I was younger ).

Distraction can be a very useful tool for some types of anxiety , although the best distraction I have found is playing a musical instrument.

I think this is pretty common among those with Autism/Asperger's. I know my Asperger's diagnosis also that I have a high degree of anxiety, or a quicker trigger for it than most.

I seem to always find something to worry about. Sometimes it's more severe than others, particularly if it's something more likely to affect me (but not necessarily something to worry about), but even if there's nothing reasonable for me to worry about, I still find something unreasonable to worry about.

I can't say that I've worried that much about war or death, but have definitely had enough nights where I had trouble getting to sleep because I was worried there would be an earthquake or fire.

It's good to see some others here who have been suffering from similar worries like me, I also sometimes got worried when reading facts in a book, if it suddenly happened and affected my life, what would be the outcome or something like that. I sometimes have trouble getting to sleep as well when affected with worrying and anxiety. I often hear the sounds of planes going over my house and it sometimes scares me, since I think they could crash right into the neighborhood, it depends on how close they sound.

I tend to use distraction to help with my anxiety, it gets it out of my head but it does eventually come back, and that is pretty sad. It reminds me of primary school, where I had this book which helped me with my worries and stress, that was a long tome ago though. My mum is going to contact a therapist, since we both think that I need one. It would be really helpful to find someone that I could talk to about all my worries, and my problems with anxiety.....

Sounds like you have generalized anxiety disorder. I've had it. They put me on an SSRI. The side effects were lousy and I think I got worse before I got better. But eventually it did the trick and the GAD has not returned. I stiil have situational anxiety attacks. But no longer chronic 24/7 anxiety.

I am definitely a worrier. I worry about family, friends and pets. I don't worry about myself as much, but I am a perfectionist and want to perform my duties at work and home perfectly. I am always disappointed because I feel I fall short.

I tend to worry about all of that stuff too. I still worry about my parents, even though they have gotten much better overtime and I tend to do a lot of the housework and help them out. A major worry is going down into the city, because it's busy, overcrowded and noisy. Add the fact that going down in the london underground, it gets worse down the tunnels and rush hours. I also have fears of going on planes, since I fear that they could crash and probably kill me, even though it's probably unlikely. I hate all of that....

I looked up this GAD, and I feel it's the same to what is affecting me, except I have many explanations to worry about all of this crap. I think it could affect my life, disturb me and probably make me a very sad person, because even though I have had a fun summer and done great things, my uncle has been in the hospital and it has been tough, luckily he comes out soon, but it has all been hard to take in and try to cope with. It's all frustrating and tough.

These problems have been bugging me since last year and have been tearing me apart from the bloody inside. I really hope it all goes away, I hope everything becomes peaceful again......

I hope it goes away for you, too.

I seriously hope, since this has been affecting me greatly.....
Getting better though, so that is a good thing

I'm going ahead and updating this since stuff has happened over the months...

I am still worrying, but not as much, which is a good sign since this has been affecting my greatly, but it is till there and is not probably going to go away. I had a meltdown about a month ago where the built up stress, frustration, anxiety and worrying culminated and I literally broke down, which I felt was something waiting to happen. I did not like that one bit. I finally was able to talk to a therapist earlier today, and it went well. I was happy that I finally got to talk with someone about all my worries, and she understood all of it, so that is a good thing.

I will see what happens this time with my worrying, but all of this happened and I am having a break from everything, so hopefully everything will be well

I have anxiety and depression

Largely due to my over protective and controlling parents I think..i can't make a decision without worrying I'm gonna regret it

Some people say Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with this. For me it was finding out my worst fears did not come true, but that took a lot of time.

I too worry about people in my family. My grandmother has Alzheimers but is doing quite well for going on two years after diagnosis, my mum has a lot of stuff on her mind and one of my brothers isn't doing too well either.

It's caused this recent depression I've been in, especially at night. Had to start taking Sertraline at about 11pm and that did little to help.

I am dealing with similar anxiety about rumors of war or a power grid attack like OP described. But I've gotten quite bitter over the last ten years because that's when all the "world ending" rumors started to wake me up and I've been dealing with ups and downs of continuous anxiety since. What also makes it bad is that I feel that I get laughed at, verbally abused, mocked, scorned, etc. by my parents for that worrying even if it's not really a critical police situation, I guess. I know they get annoyed by it and want me to stop, but I just can't stop, it is continuous and probably will be for a very long time. And there are other small worries, but the dominant focus is fear of my life being disrupted by strong "survival" chaos or nuclear weapons.

I'm afraid I wouldn't be much help here as my anxiety issues seem to have only gotten worse as time goes on. But bear in mind that my diagnosis was made fairly late in life, I'm 42 now and the diagnosis was made only three months ago. And like a festering wound left without a Band-Aid my situation has only gotten worse with time.

My therapist classifies my current anxiety status as "inconceivable." Those with High Functioning Asperger's Syndrome seem to have the highest anxiety of the three primary classifications of Autism. During my own research into Autism I have discovered that people in general with high intelligence have higher anxiety but when you add Autism to the mix, it makes it far worse.

The lion's share of all of us in these forums who have been diagnosed with some form of Autism have severe anxiety automatically.