Newbie with Anxiety

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-18-2006
Newbie with Anxiety
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Wed, 11-08-2006 - 10:38am

Hello Everyone - My name is Jena. I'm 30 years old and live in Florida. I am Bipolar and just got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. I have shingles right now and my psychiatrist believes it's from all the worrying and anxiety I have been experiencing. I'm in a lot of pain right now from it. I worry about everything.....I worry that someone is going to break into my house and kill me and my family. I worry that if I leave my hairdryer plugged in it will set my house on fire. I'm scared to put something in the slow cooker because I'm scared it will set my house on fire. I worry that when I take my dog for a walk that other dogs will come attack us and it just goes on and on. I have recently been put on a medication called Klonopin. It doesn't seem to do much for me so my psychiatrist increased the dose to 1 mg. She told me to take it three times a day for a week and see if that helps. God I hope so. I guess the main reason I am writing this post is that I don't know what to do with all of this....I don't know how to handle it. I don't have any coping skills. Does anyone out there have any suggestions on how to handle all this?

Take Care, Jena

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Wed, 11-08-2006 - 1:40pm

Hello, Jena! It's nice to see you;) Sorry to hear about how distressed you are. That's a bummer. I hope you will be reassured when I tell you that you are NOT alone. Many of us have the obssessive thinking & ever increasing

 

 


 



iVillage Member
Registered: 03-22-2003
Wed, 11-08-2006 - 8:16pm

Hi & welcome to our community!

Sheri Ann