A Depression and Anxiety Journey

a blog about my healing journey through depression and anxiety

Struggling with fear

Posted by jlhuff on September 23, 2009

I spend every day struggling with fear. This anxiety is getting out of control. Being abused as a child explains a lot of it but not all of it. I have also developed anxiety after having traumatic health experiences. Now I feel like I fear everything. I am afraid to be alone, afraid to be with people, afraid of getting sick, afraid of taking medications, afraid of vomiting, afraid of these fears, afraid I am going crazy, afraid to die, etc. It is so difficult to feel this way all the time and I want it to stop. I just don’t know how to stop it. I am in talk therapy right now and still the fears seem to be getting worse. I am even going to try alternative medicine to see if that will help me. I just don’t feel like anything at all can help me. It is hard and I am so lost and confused. It is not fair that things from my childhood can still be causing so many problems in my life, and I don’t understand why these health experiences had to cause even more anxiety than I already had. I am so tired of struggling with this fear, I wish it would just go away already.

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