Recently I've been having serious anxiety problems and I don't know what to do about it. Everything seems to be causing me a massive deal of stress, even upcoming good things. My girlfriend brought up camping and I immediately felt fear at the idea. I have to find a new site for my security job, and I just feel paralyzed by the idea. The thought of doing anything but hiding in my room and just sleeping the rest of my life away is a terrifying thought. It didn't used to be like this at all, and I don't know what changed.

I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder, but I don't know where that starts and ends and what's just me being a little bitch. What can I do to just calm down and try to be normal again?

>>33303724 (OP)
>can do something about it
Then why worry?
>cant do anything about it
Then why worry?
That is all

>>33303755
If I could stop worrying, I promise that I would. It never makes sense the things that I get anxious about. Like working security and being horrified of being bored. Weird, stupid shit like that.

>>33303724 (OP)
How are meds treating you?

>>33303805
I was given Adderall and I don't really feel any different when I take them. Before I'd been given Zoloft, but just threw it up shortly after.

>>33303825
>Adderall
That's not a GAD medication
>Zoloft, but just threw it up shortly after
You couldn't take Zoloft so they gave you adderall?
Do you have other medical conditions?
There are at least 10 different meds you should have gotten before something that doesn't even do anything for GAD realistically

Are you lying or are your doctors just shit? What country do you live in?

>>33303891
I apologize, I'm jumping around a lot of things here. I was specifically prescribed Adderall because in the same visit I was both diagnosed with ADHD, as well as GAD officially. Around 3 or so years ago, I was prescribed Zoloft for anxiety like this, vomited, and then have been 3 years without. The Adderall is the only medication even vaguely in the same wheelhouse.

>>33303929
Like I said, there are many other Antidepressants/Antihistamines/Beta-blockers/Antiseizure/Antianxiety(if you get panic attacks but also addictive sometimes)
You need to get on one and advocate for yourself to do that, this is your life you're talking about

More than that you need to do different type of therapy/self help or something to change your mind and outset
Meds help, but that's all they do, it needs to be you that makes the life changes necessary to change yourself

Just like a doctor can give an alcoholic person medicine to try to recover, if they continue drinking alcohol, it won't do anything
Doesn't mean the meds don't work, you need lifestyle changes as well

>>33303724 (OP)
100mg of L-theanine in your coffee.

>>33303724 (OP)
I usually spend all that energy doing exhausting things but also I avoid stuff like caffeine, I never drink a coffee past 12pm, for example.
it's hard to deal with anxiety the first years they attack hard but you learn to live with it as time goes by
t. anon that is 41 years old and had anxiety since late teens.

>>33303724 (OP)
Wim hof breathing will fix subconscious anxiety better than any meds. For conscious worrying yeah stop being a bitch and make peace with the worst case scenario. Find your inner fuck it we ball