How do you feel when you have Anxiety?

Question

I'm just wondering because I think I'm experiencing it. I've been worrying about my boyfriend a lot! Especially when he sleeps, because he likes to sleep a lot and I'm afraid the something is going to happen to him. He was never like this before untill the beginning of summer.(one reason could that I worry bout him sleeping is my sister died in 2004 in her sleep and I was really close with her). I'm just afraid that I'm going to lose someone I love again. He tells me that nothing will happen but I can't help it but to thing for the worst. And another thing last Sunday my father had to a stroke and It really scared me. All these things that normally don't bother me are. Am I experiencing Anxiety? How do you feel when you have Anxiety?

Answer 1

You have described your "worries"and the cause of them. Anxiety is fear (either conscious or unconscious) of something that you believe might happen either real or unreal.. It is a heightened sense of awareness and thought (planning what to do to prevent the thing from happening or what you'll do if it does happen), often coupled with the effects of the body being all the time ready for fight or flight.

What you are afraid of, obviously, is death of another or your self. The therapy for this is to try to reduce or eliminate, if possible, the cause of the fear, or if this is not possible to lessen the real or imagined consequences of the feared event actually occuring. I am going to try to do the latter here. I am not a doctor so this is just an ordinary mans opinion.

Death is a natural happening. Everyone has done it since humans began and everyone will die. It is as natural as breathing. If you can bring yourself to a state of mind that accepts death ( a religion is a help here) it reduces the fear of it. The consequences of anothers death are a different matter.

Imagining or planning a life without that other may make such an event less traumatic by simply making it more familiar and it isn't morbid. Each and everyone can die at any time, or worse be totally incapacitated, and realistically facing and planning ahead for that event makes it easier to get over.

In case this doesn't help and the symptoms of anxiety (which can be found by typing in "anxiety" in Yahoo! web search) don't diminish, a doctor's advise may be necessary.

Good luck, good health, peace and love!

Answer 2

It is very normal for you to be anxious, seeing that you lost someone so close to you. Your dad's stroke is also a traumatic experience. Anxiety is when you are constantly worried that something bad might happen. A feeling of impending doom, dread. I think you are definitely anxious. Speak to your doctor about this. He/she might refer you to someone who could really help you. Otherwise, go and see a psychologist directly. It's nothin to be ashamed about and can help a lot.

Answer 3

I think my husband has anxiety attacks. He is really anxious about things that are not really serious though and he can't sleep and get short of breath. I will be checking back here to see what others have to say.