Hi All,
Glad Ive found this forum and look forward to reading lots of posts.
Ive just posted the below in the Hyperchondria forum as I think thats where it belongs.....
I am a 36yr old male, living in New Zealand. Ive always been a relatively anxious person, but it has never really affected me too much, Ive been able to get on in life.
For the last 3 weeks, Ive been suffering from extreme anxiety to the point where my work has suffered and now my marriage is suffering. The majority of my worry is health related. I am a reasonably healthy and active guy, I enjoy long mountain bike rides every weekend and walk my dog for an hour every day.
I quit smoking in September last year and prior to that had smoked for about 20years.
Over Christmas time, my mother went into hospital for a relatively straight-forward procedure but ended up being in hospital for 2 months and in ICU twice with chronic pneumonia, she nearly died twice. This was an extremely stressful time, but I thought I had handled the stress reasonably well. Im thinking now, this anxiety is caused by the 2 months stress and me holding everything inside.
I am suffering from the A-typical anxiety symptoms like, racing heart, numbness, brain fog, chest pains, shortness of breath, blurred vision etc etc and this can last for hours and hours..it is extremely scary and I convince myself I am either having a hearth attack, stroke or some chronic uncurable disease...
Its hard...
