What Caused Your Anxiety? Your best g...

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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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Registered: 10-07-2006
Mon, 10-23-2006 - 10:26am
I couldn't vote, but Im positive it had to do with hypochondria thoughts. I am in the process of renewing my mind so that I don't think I have every disease there is.
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Registered: 11-11-2003
Mon, 10-23-2006 - 1:44pm

I believe I was born with a genetic pre-disposition to social anxiety disorder.

Cheryl

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Registered: 10-03-2003
Mon, 10-23-2006 - 9:45pm
I voted other because I can not pinpoint one major event that led to my anxiety.
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Registered: 12-25-2004
Mon, 10-23-2006 - 10:36pm

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.

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Wed, 10-25-2006 - 9:37am
I voted a combination. The birth of my second child seemed to be the final straw. Up to that point, my job was very stressful & our hospital was in an upheaval since it was soon to merge with another. Noone was assured a job. I had financial problems as my dh wasn't working & we had recently married. My only sister was dying from cancer. Though I had always been anxious & had panic attacks previously, I had never been agoraphobic or out of commission because of my anxiety. jan


 

 


 



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Registered: 03-11-2004
Wed, 10-25-2006 - 3:02pm
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Registered: 04-01-2003
Wed, 10-25-2006 - 4:22pm
I put other. My anxiety is due to learned (incorrect) behavior taught to me by my mom.
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Thu, 10-26-2006 - 12:29pm
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Registered: 09-29-2005
Fri, 10-27-2006 - 3:33pm

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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Registered: 10-15-2006
Fri, 10-27-2006 - 4:42pm
The year I started having panic attacks I had just started a new job and hated my boss and the job, had a bad break-up with my long-term boyfriend, and was feeling like my life really sucked at the time. It was also at Christmas time, and the holidays are always stressful and sad to me for some reason. So I think I always had the anxiety, but somehow had kept it in check until this point.

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