Hi everyone, nice to meet you all
I'm new, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post about anxiety issues since I couldn't find an anxiety forum.. I'm a teenager who has an anxiety disorder. I would like some advice. I have been having anxiety for some time now, and the most recent attack made me realize that it's been steadily getting worser rather than gradually disappearing like I thought it was. I saw a clinical psychologist about this. After the consultation, I think I know what could've caused this anxiety in the first place. I believe it was because i did a test about schizophrenia predisposition in the past and the results were positive. ( people who daydream a lot, dissociate a lot, act eccentric ) I believe this was an unresolved issue for me, which slowly grew worser as time passed. All of my triggers were related to mental illness, so I believe that this may be it. I've always been a pretty wierd person who daydreams a lot, has eccentric interests, and was prone to depressive thoughts. This never bothered me because I just thought I was unique. But after reading about predispotion to schizophrenia and doing a test on it which yielded positive results, my view of myself changed drastically. I told myself to get over it, but I guess I never really did, since anything mental illness related that I can identify with in some way triggers anxiety within me ( ex: scared of getting sleep paralysis, I know it's not a mental illness, but it's the hallucination component of it that scared me at the time I think)
Last year I experienced Sometging extrmemly unsettling. It was like an intrusive thought thst kept repeating itself for the whole night. It was a phrase of a song that I had been listening to in repeat. This had never happned before when I listen to songs that I love on repeat, and it was frightening too because it lasted the whole night and I felt like I was going mad. My axniety got triggered again and for half a year, I felt terrible.
I went to a youth mental health clinic, and they diagnosed me with severe GAD. But the therapy didn't work out for me. Right now I'm feeling slightly better, but I'm reluctant to listen to music and I have lost a great amount of confidence in my mental health. I really thought that I was recovering from anxiety. But like I said before, I think my anxiety stems from the fear of being predisposed to a severe mental illness. I want to see a psychiatrist to discuss my fear with. The clinical psychologist I saw said that I should, and I think that it will be good for the long term as well. The problem is that it might be hard getting a referral from my family doctor. Since I'm not psychotic, and my anxiety is currently at the moderate range, my case might not be serious enough to warrant a referral. I live in B.C. Has anyone encountered a problem where the family doctor might not refer you to a specialist? What do you do? Do you try to convince him or her to refer you? This is my only chance to talk to a doctor and probaby get some help that will lift a large amount if burden off my shoulder. My parents aren't very supportive or sympathetic. It's the fear that i am predisposed to a severe mental illness that triggered everything.
Thanks, sorry if this is the wrong place to post it.
I'm new, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post about anxiety issues since I couldn't find an anxiety forum.. I'm a teenager who has an anxiety disorder. I would like some advice. I have been having anxiety for some time now, and the most recent attack made me realize that it's been steadily getting worser rather than gradually disappearing like I thought it was. I saw a clinical psychologist about this. After the consultation, I think I know what could've caused this anxiety in the first place. I believe it was because i did a test about schizophrenia predisposition in the past and the results were positive. ( people who daydream a lot, dissociate a lot, act eccentric ) I believe this was an unresolved issue for me, which slowly grew worser as time passed. All of my triggers were related to mental illness, so I believe that this may be it. I've always been a pretty wierd person who daydreams a lot, has eccentric interests, and was prone to depressive thoughts. This never bothered me because I just thought I was unique. But after reading about predispotion to schizophrenia and doing a test on it which yielded positive results, my view of myself changed drastically. I told myself to get over it, but I guess I never really did, since anything mental illness related that I can identify with in some way triggers anxiety within me ( ex: scared of getting sleep paralysis, I know it's not a mental illness, but it's the hallucination component of it that scared me at the time I think)
Last year I experienced Sometging extrmemly unsettling. It was like an intrusive thought thst kept repeating itself for the whole night. It was a phrase of a song that I had been listening to in repeat. This had never happned before when I listen to songs that I love on repeat, and it was frightening too because it lasted the whole night and I felt like I was going mad. My axniety got triggered again and for half a year, I felt terrible.
I went to a youth mental health clinic, and they diagnosed me with severe GAD. But the therapy didn't work out for me. Right now I'm feeling slightly better, but I'm reluctant to listen to music and I have lost a great amount of confidence in my mental health. I really thought that I was recovering from anxiety. But like I said before, I think my anxiety stems from the fear of being predisposed to a severe mental illness. I want to see a psychiatrist to discuss my fear with. The clinical psychologist I saw said that I should, and I think that it will be good for the long term as well. The problem is that it might be hard getting a referral from my family doctor. Since I'm not psychotic, and my anxiety is currently at the moderate range, my case might not be serious enough to warrant a referral. I live in B.C. Has anyone encountered a problem where the family doctor might not refer you to a specialist? What do you do? Do you try to convince him or her to refer you? This is my only chance to talk to a doctor and probaby get some help that will lift a large amount if burden off my shoulder. My parents aren't very supportive or sympathetic. It's the fear that i am predisposed to a severe mental illness that triggered everything.
Thanks, sorry if this is the wrong place to post it.
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