Is it normal to hope for a diagnosis of anxiety?

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I have always felt anxious around people, and there are many things that stress me out. One of my best friends has generalized anxiety disorder, and a lot of the time when we talk I can relate to a lot of what she feels. Sometimes I just wish that I would be diagnosed with anxiety or some other mental health disorder, just so that I know that there actually is something wrong with me, I'm not just being pathetic and sensitive. Is that normal?

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  • Riker300
    10 years ago

    Could be so much worse. Xanax works well to treat the symptoms.

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  • peterr
    10 years ago

    Sucking a cock is very relaxing and cums with a nic e reward.

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  • EdWall234
    10 years ago

    Pardon jumping to conclusions but is it possible that you hope to be diagnosed for anxiety so that you have an excuse and explanation?

    I was anxious and depressed and it was so easy to put down my bad moods and feelings of inadequacy to a permanent illness. Perhaps there's another reason you're anxious and this diagnosis is a quick answer.

    You're feeling shit not because you have some imbalance of chemicals in the brain but because there's issues in your own life. I don't know what those issues are, you have to find them for yourself and try to fix them.

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  • Shnaz
    10 years ago

    Be honest with yourself......... You want the drugs.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    10 years ago

    I hadn't even considered I had anxieties and or was even certain of what that was until I was diagnosed with it, and then when they told me I had it I was like, "Hm...that's interesting.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I think it's normal because it would help you understand your problems better.

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    10 years ago

    The first step to getting past it is to be told that you have it.

    You may not even need a whole diagnoses. A simple trip to my primary doctor was enough to console me. My nurse practitioner that day listened to my symptoms and, literally and figuratively, my fear of driving over the bridge lately. She told me to just say "Stop!" to myself, out loud if possible, when the anxiety crept up. I tried this, among other things to help myself which all seemed to revolve around telling myself to stop and now I can usually control my anxiety. It's like it gives you the power to control yourself.

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    • KeddersPrincess
      10 years ago

      Interesting. My psychologist told me to squeeze the area between my index finger and thumb to control my anxieties. Oddly enough, it worked.

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  • Shrunk
    10 years ago

    I felt the same. My mom kept denying me this, saying things like "you'll get over it" "I was like you too" or other people would say like "I don't think there's anything wrong with you" I realize all of which are attempts to console me..? It just made me feel worse, embarrassed to feel the way I did, and like you said pathetic, or that I was overreacting and complaining about nothing. Which may be true, but then other sources were saying I could talk to a doctor about it. Took me forever to finally feel worth talking to a doctor because of all the people blowing it off. And what did those people know anyway? They were only going off their own perception of your outward behavior, when only you can know how you feel inside.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    I felt validated when I got my diagnosis.

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  • thegypsysailor
    10 years ago

    Let me get this straight. You are hoping for a diagnosis that you have a mental health condition so you don't have to take responsibility for your own life?
    Really?
    Are you also hoping that by being diagnosed, that you can get the state to pay for your doctors and meds? And maybe enough money to live on, because you obviously are too ill to work?
    When I was your age, they'd have thrown you in an institution and you'd do anything to get "right" again to get out, no matter how hard life was in the real world.

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      I don't think that's very good advice.
      For somebody who has mental illness being diagnosed can help them understand the problems they are having and put them in the right direction of learning how to better themselves. It's hard to overcome a problem you don't know you have. It seems in the OP's case they are aware of their problem but they should learn how other people with similar problems deal with it. I didn't see them say anything about wanting an excuse to be irresponsible.

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      • thegypsysailor
        10 years ago

        From the BBC News this morning; "A BBC investigation into a UK-based Amazon warehouse has found conditions that a stress expert said could cause "mental and physical illness"."
        This is exactly my point. How in the world did the human race progress this far when hard work "could cause "mental and physical illness"?
        This is menial work, for people who don't have the intelligence, skills or education for anything better and by putting them to work at a halfway decent pay ($12.00 plus an hour), they are in danger of "mental and physical illness"?
        IT'S ALL CRAP.
        Oh dear, what about the really stressful jobs, should those people not fly airplanes, be soldiers or cops, because it's just too stressful?
        Let's get serious here, this poster and so many others on here are just spineless, lazy, uncommitted and unmotivated, seeking any way to avoid stepping up and taking responsibility for their own lives. "Gimme drugs, gimme help, gimme a diagnosis, gimme, gimme, gimme".

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        • [Old Memory]
          10 years ago

          I don't see anyone here talking about not working. There are lots of people with mental illness who work and are active. I've been diagnosed with mental illness and I am very active. I'm not lazy. For me it's genetic and runs in my family on both of my parents sides. I rarely even tell anyone about it unless they notice and ask. Do you really think people don't have biological brain problems? What about people who are so disabled they have to live in psych wards their whole life.
          I will agree there are people who are just lazy and want an excuse but you shouldn't assume that anyone who is having problems is doing that. For me if being diagnosed let me know what I was having difficulties in and I was able to learn more life skills. I knew I was having problems in life but didn't understand why so it was helpful to learn there were resources that I could use to better myself.

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