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| Mon, 10-23-2006 - 4:46am |
What Caused Your Anxiety? Your best guess as to how it all started.
- An illness/surgery of mine or someone close to me.
- Death of a friend or loved one, a miscarriage.
- Loss of a job, financial security, home(fire, flooding)etc.
- Trauma,assault, accident,rape,robbery,murder,abuse, war, natural disaster, etc.
- After the birth of one of my children.
- A move, job change, school, graduation, etc.
- Divorce, breakup or a severing of a close relationship.
- Marriage.
- A combination of many stressors. Please feel free to post.
- Other. Please feel free to post.
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I believe I was born with a genetic pre-disposition to social anxiety disorder.
Cheryl
I think my initial nervous breakdown was caused by a lot of combined stressors. Dh and I had only been married for about 18 months or so. We were not getting along well, mostly due to the fact that he worked all the time. And I do mean all the time. I hardly saw him those first few years. I had moved across the country to be with him, no family nearby, no friends in the area. Then we got news he was deploying. I decided to go back to school in another state. I had a miscarriage about two months before he left. So, after he'd been gone a week, I crashed. It was after his first phone call to me in country, and he had to let me go because they were being rocketted. It was all too overwhelming for me. But I think the reason it got so bad, was because of all the built up stress from the previous year. I'd been having heart palpitations for months, my hair had started falling out and I was losing weight because of my total loss of appetite. Plus I was completely depressed and had totally isolated myself. If'd I'd only known then what I know now, I think I could have avoided it, but with my worry wart personality, I imagine it would have come up at some point anyway.
So, yeah, a combination of stressors.
I have fear. It started with a fire. When I try to sleep I think the house will catch fire. Do any of you think you smell smoke when your eyes are closed?
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