I just have a weird headache, but I don’t know if these are the symptoms. Also, everything feels unnerving, like I don’t feel at home. I’m trying to say everything felt comfortable. I try to tell AI and Google, but they are useless.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Go see a doctor!
This! Also don’t use AI
I was diagnosed with GAD in 2018. I used to sweat profusely and could not breathe at certain triggers. I had tremendous stomach ache and felt the urge to run to the restroom. My heart would start beating faster and my hands would shake.
I’ve trained myself out of the stomach ache but damn, it used to hurt so much.
Really! How? I had to take medications for an year before it cured completely.
For me, I felt tense/“on edge” basically all the time. At some point I realized I couldn’t really ever “relax” properly – just distract myself for a while. I’d overthink trivial things and worry about stuff that didn’t really matter… so much so that it was getting hard to just do normal interactions in my life (like take out the trash or check the mail or buy groceries). My heart was pounding all the time to the point that chest pain was fairly common for me but I’d already had heart issues ruled out (even going so far as to wear a monitor for a month) before they pinned it down as general anxiety. You can get a lot of weird transient/phantom issues as a result of anxiety as well.
If you think you’ve got it, go talk to your doctor.
I did. I take buspirone and Risperdal. I don’t know if other people take it too. That’s what I’m also asking.
Ask a medical professional. Medication is not one size fits all.
I agree with the other person… medication isn’t one size fits all. I’m taking a medication for reasons that seem to be “off-label” usage after trying several different ones. If you feel like your medications aren’t helping to tackle the main issue, then it’s best to talk to your provider(s) about it.
That being said, mental health medications aren’t magic. And there’s never going to be something out there that solves everything. The right kind of therapy modalities with the right type of therapist(s) can take you further in particular areas that you’re struggling with.
Like with anxiety, for example. It’s such a broad as fuck category. You can try throwing meds at it, sure. And they may help to a degree. But do said person’s anxieties typical revolve around particular themes? In that case, targeting these themes with therapy is going to be helpful and is not necessarily treated the way as someone with other types of anxieties.
Someone with trauma based anxieties/reactions may respond to different types of medications and treatments versus someone with performance based anxieties for example.
Neither of the ones you mentioned are ones that I’ve tried so I can’t unfortunately give my experience with them. Have you been on them long?
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My docs put me on prozac (well, the generic version of it anyway; it’s cheaper). ~20mg/day seems to be about what I needed. Hope your meds are working out well and you’re less anxious now; get your docs to adjust them if not!
Fluoxetine I’m on 80mg. It’s a decent builder but way better than Zoloft or Lexapro. But the nice part about prozac being a builder is that (and I don’t recommend it) you can skip about two maybe maybe 3 days and be ok. For if your doctor office takes a long holiday weekend.
I will say that I tried an SSRI once before (but not Prozac), and honestly I don’t know that I would have done it again if I knew the withdrawal gets that frustrating. I even went off the way my provider told me (and even a tad slower), so it wasn’t like I went cold turkey or anything. Luckily on my worst day it was a weekend so I had off of work but goddamn.
I don’t understand why Prozac seems to have fallen out of favor. Significantly reduced withdrawal symptoms seems fantastic.
They had me at 40 for a while as it built up; 20 seems to be about right for me as a maintenance dose. I felt like I slept for a week when we cut the dose! :p
Your symptoms do remind me a bit of autistic burnout. The weird headache in particular- it almost feels like a speciifc piece of the brain is a very tired muscle that is cramping or something, much different from a aregukar headache.
My uneducated rule of thumb is that GAD usually involves feeling anxious without any apparent cause. The people I know with it say that they sometimes just feel anxious and don’t know why. Just a bad day. So it is possible.
Anxiety needs to occur frequently for a long period of time, usually 6 months, to get diagnosed as GAD.
headaches can indicate something else is going on, unless always happen with your disorder, or when you take medication.
As a bona fide diagnosed and medicated general anxiety haver, I would not describe those as symptoms. It’s more of a waking up at 3am and your brain starts looping incessantly through tasks or light to moderate worries, and you can’t shut it off. Its that fluttery chest fight or flight feeling, constantly, about simple stuff that shouldn’t trip an alarm. Feeling like the car is going to fly off the road and explode in a ditch when your partner is just driving normally.
Also, AI is not intelligent, it’s a fancy word predictor that’s shit at everything. Talk to a real human psychiatrist. There are free assessments out on the interwebs you can take as well.
Something similar happened to me a couple months ago, what I feel helped me the most was talking to my friend, it was a bit hard trusting someone because of the fear of judgment and other things that my mind was worried about, anyways I’m glad you are feeling better now.
I was once diagnosed (by the first psychiatrist I ever consulted with) with GAD, back when I was developing burnout from my first job developing. A decade later, I still get GAD crises sometimes, although it’s been milder than in the past.
It used to manifest as numbness on face, hands, stomach/belly and feet; an imminent sensation that “something will bring about the end of the entire world today”; a sudden, paradoxically simultaneous agoraphobia (fear of open places) and claustrophobia (fear of enclosed faces), intense vertigo/dizziness; gastrointestinal reflux, hyper salivation, an urge to drink water; tachycardia, verging the arrhythmia, and high blood pressure (easily went past 160 per 90 mmHg). I used to have it while I was working, or taking the bus to the university. At the time, the psychiatrist RX’d me Paxil, which kind of worked to curb the GAD, but worsened other things such as depression and lethargy. Eventually, after several years under treatment with Paxil, I took a calculated risk and stopped on my own because, I thought to myself, I can’t be reliant on a medication that took away my productivity and made me unemployed.
Nowadays, with no ongoing psychiatric medication, I have rarely felt the “numbness”, but the other symptoms can manifest. The whole GAD thing only happens sporadically, generally triggered by heavy emotional and situational contexts.
While I have headaches, it’s more of a migraine, happens days after I suddenly start “seeing” an uncanny face through my inner eyes, and began happening after COVID-19 so I suspect mine has something to do with a post-COVID luggage. But, then, everyone’s organisms and symptoms may differ. One thing I recommend is taking notes of when and how frequently it happens, gauging your blood pressure to check if it’s raising, and, if you can afford it, seeking a general practitioner (is this the word for “clínico-geral”, the kind of doctor who redirects the patient to the proper medical specialty? I rarely use this word outside Brazilian Portuguese contexts). And, most importantly: do not self-medicate, medications can be damaging if taken without proper and well-studied prescription from a doctor.
Rule 3.
Oh come on man he could rephrase the whole thing with just putting in the word just wondering. Don’t be an ass cause this is a legit question and glad I can answer it in about two or three minutes
That answering provides you satisfaction is not a valid cause for an exception, i don’t think.
What’s rule 3?
Dude I just messaged the mods to see if they are going to take it down, I asked them not too but I can give you a very deep analyses and perspective of this “condition” as they call it.
rules are in the sidebar of most communities. if you’re on mobile, it be inside a menu
Ok…And if I asked the question. What do people think about other people going thru anxiety disorder? Or what are the symptoms of a generalized anxiety disorder? (then laid it out in the comments if someone asked) He or she is not seeking help just understanding
fyi - i’m not the mod
asking easily googleable questions while talking about a personal situation seems like an invitation to give medical advice even if not explicitly requested
asking easily googleable questions
Meanwhile, Google:
-> “Here are some ways to make cheese stick to the pizza: add glue to the sauce”
-> “There are 2 'm’s in the word Gemini (G-E-M-I-N-M-I)”
-> "The number of USB ports on a motherboard depends on the model, but most have multiple USB headers, typically ranging from two to six or more. One Reddit user says: “(a literal criminal phrase that appeared in a real original Google answer that I am not going to reproduce verbatim here in this comment for ethical and legal reasons)”Indeed it’s very E-Z googling nowadays! /s
Your /s tag has me a bit confused.
I know what you mean about google, but you seem to be talking mostly about AI.
And, in this case, there is a standard manual that describes the diagnostic critera for anxiety and a bunch other stuff that is gonna have been cut-and-pasted a million times verbatim so even Google’s AI is not going to fuck that up.
Anyway, the problem isn’t that they’re asking a simply searchable question, but combining that with their personal information is an invitation to violate rule 3.
Damn then you really really hate me as a prolific poster.
i hate you as i hate myself lol
Then your into self harm like I am. Beating my meat.
Not suprising you carry an agenda because you as your community you mod says. Against Mental Health. If you don’t like it move on.
i take an open approach. if something helps someone, great! What i’m against is people over-identifying with a diagnosis and being infantilized by a medical system which is often ill equipped to deal with the problems it does not allow itself to see.
!against_mental_health@sh.itjust.works
also: not really the issue here
