fear of people

Hey, wow you seem to be the first person i have come across who has a silmiar illness as i do! I guess since i was little i have suffered from social phobia, always withdrawn and quiet. When i was 19 i had a severe breakdown and developed panic attacks and depression which made me both agoraphobic and severely socially phobic. Although i know exactly why i fear people, i have had more than my fair share of abuse both from mum, the people who brought me up and boyfriends.

What you descrive is a panic attack when you have this intense fear, then you become afraid of the fear and so on until it becomes a vicious circle. You came to the right place! You should browze a lot of these threads as you will quickly see that you are not alone in your fear and anxiety and you will perhaps learn from how others have coped with it.

I got a letter from my school stating that since I show effort in class and have pretty good grades they are inviting me and my parents to breakfast and then will have an awards ceremony. I am soo scared to eat in front of people. I'm fine with my parents but none of my friends are going either. All people I don't know or don't like. I'm picky about food too and I know I'm not going to like it so how can I eat it without looking grossed out?

Stop fearing breathing. I know it's easier said than done. You don't just get over a fear (I feel though personally this is more than just fear) it's fear that has took over our every aspect of our lives. You can breathe again. Don't hold in your breath. Worst thing you could think to do like it would be helpful at all. No. I'm not afraid someone coughing anymore. Be assertive.

The media is getting everyone upset about a strain of flu that is no more deadly than any other strain of flu (which isn't particularly deadly anyway). Tens of thousands of people come down with the flu each year, most of whom never report it because their illness is mild. There is nothing to be upset about. It is not fun to be sick, but you will get over it.

I am now struggling to cope with the fear of dying, its only recently become very serious, in feb of this year i found out i was expecting my second child, and because i thought i could get pregnant then surely nothing is wrong with me, then tragically i lost the baby and after going through all the motions of miscarrying i suddenly thought well something must be wrong and it has gone on from their, i am constantly checking myself, thinking im pale, checking my tongue, thinking my fingers tips

Anxiety can manifest itself in certain ways, in my opinion. Yours is your fear of cancer. My original source of anxiety started with my heart, but if I thought I had something, then I had it. You name it, I must have been suffering from it...it is a hard pattern of thinking to get out of sometimes. Throughout all of this, have you had access to a therapist to talk this over? In my opinion, the best thing you can do to get over this is accept it and confront it.

You have some really classic symptoms of hypochondria and anxiety. Case in point for the hypochondria is when you wrote that since there was nothing wrong with your heart, what could you find to obsess about now? Since anxiety and hypochondria are a bit like the chicken or the egg question, we'll leave it at that. But they do feed off each other and compete to see just who can grow the biggest.

m betting it has to do with fear of failing in something, or of not meeting expectations, or of something you have not completed, something you are afraid to try. Or a mix of stuff like that. It may be extremely difficult to talk about this with a parent or with anyone at all. But you can talk about it HERE, if you want to. You are very fortunate to have this fear of dying right now, because the causes are fairly recent.

My opinion? Your suffering from guilt which is taking the form of fear of HIV. Many people "latch on" to HIV fears when it is usually related to guilt. The risk factor to catching HIV the ways that you had "sex" are very low to begin with (unless you had an open sore...and even then it is small. I will bet that you are going to be HIV negative when you go back to your doctor. Your problem, will continue, however.

s mainly things like the thought of a catheter, of having an IV, of having a scar, of being vulnerable on the operating table and the idea of someone cutting my flesh. I get migraines and i even often have to convince myself to go for an injection because even that scares me despite how many I've had. So, I'm kinda just trying to find encouragement for the whole thing.

I'm almost the opposite of you. If I could get it together and stop being so ambivalent towards religion, it might not be so bad. If you're interested in spirituality, there's all kinds of things you can read that are super interesting. Skelly88 might be a better person to ask about that though:) He knows more about it than I do. But I also hate the idea of nothing. So maybe I also ambivalent.

I have a fear of death. Mostly the death of a loved one. I worry so much that if I lost one of my family members I don't know what would happen to me, I think I would go crazy, it would ruin my life, I feel like crying when I think about it, I shouldn't worry but I do, which makes it worse because they are going to all die one day, this scares me because they are so important to me.

4 (normal), so, should I still fear Cirrhosis which i have no way of knowing if I have, or does the normal bilirubin give me some comfort?

ve personally taken all three and never suffered any side effects at all, and I managed health foods stores for 18 years and never heard of anyone reporting any side effects. Manukka honey is just another form of honey -- bees pollinating a particular plant that happens to produce a unique antibiotic other honeys don't have. DGL is just a form of common licorice, with the part taken out responsible for most of the side effects commonly reported from licorice (mostly high blood pressure).

Not to be nosy, but what kind of pain do you have? There are many people on this forum that have taken pain meds because of legitimate pain. I myself have been on and off them for a few years because of back and sciatic pain. If you let us know your pain some people on here might be able to suggest other options to help deal with it. I have tried numerous different non narcotic pain meds.

Hi everyone, do any of you want to quit taking pills, but keep taking them for fear of withdrawal? Well that was me too, for over 7yrs I took methadone everyday, just to keep from having withdrawals. I started taking methadone for an addiction to other painkillers, I was told that methadone was easier to withdraw from!! I think the not knowing what to expect is much worse than the actual withdrawal. So if you want off the pain pill roller coaster, you can so do it!

Little over a year I'd say. Well one day I was driving home and for no reason it felt like I was going to throw my heart rite up it started pounding and things started going black I was like this is the end I didn't no what to do went threw a bunch of tests they found nsvt. Then I thought I had cad and did for a long timed despite having an angio I still think I do. I read all the time about and how it can go from 0 plugged to 100 percent in less then a month.

ve had 3 normal birth s and one emergency c section at 32 weeks. I lost 6 pints of blood on the table. Had lots of new blood and was put in a comma for 9 hours. I'm so glad they put me to sleep.I'm going to try for a vbac but if my specialists want me to have another c section. I want them to put me sleep again I don't feel I can be awake for it. Which is no way fair on my boyfriend as this is his 1st baby and he will miss out on seeing his baby come into the world.

ya i get this a lot even do im not afraid of dyeing the thought of it just puts my stomach in knots i think its more a fear of un-none will it be painful,l how will i happen, all these questions run in my head, i sometimes convince myself im dyeing and send myself into a full blown panick attack so now when i start to think of death i do something to take my mind off it!

I'm not sure how to navigate this forum. I just sent a message to mpaul, thinking that it would be posted here, but I can't find it and I'm not sure it got sent. Anyway, mpaul, this may be repetitive if you already got my message. I also wanted the others in this forum to get this. I've had this fear for years. I'm 54 now. First started when I was 16, on a car ride up to Vermont to go skiing. Just looking out the window, and the fear hit me.

I googled way too many symptoms on schizophrenia, and now I am obsessing over the fear of getting it. My therapist and psychiatrist said I dont, but what if I do get it!? I have no symptoms but I am just so afraid. My OCD is so bad now about it. Anyone else go through this?

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