Absolutely OVERWHELMED when "stress" happens

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Okay, I've gone through SO many success stories lately, looking for hope.

 

I see so many symptoms listed for people and discussed.  Maybe I'm missing it, but one of my biggest symptoms right now is the absolutely inability to handle ONE iota of "stress".  If the phone rings and it's something that needs urgent attention, I basically break down and can't think straight!

 

Today I've had three things right in a row (HVAC/Home Owners Insurance on my parents home/Family issue) all within an hour and I just want the earth to open up and swallow me!!

 

How am I not supposed to think this is just an anxiety disorder??

 

Does anybody else feel this way??

 

Did anybody who is healed feel this way and it went away, or did you have to retrain your brain?

 

PLEASE HELP!!

[[bo...]]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm going through. Any stress brings on anger and then I can't think straight and then the feeling of wanting to cry. No wonder so many people just stop trying to do so much during this.

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I've been absolutely overwhelmed with anxiety lately which is not something that I got before the benzos but I am in a way greatful because it's unearthed an issue I wasn't aware of (my trigger), and it's so buried deep down, I wouldn't have figured it out without the wd from benzos magnifying the anxiety. The likely hood is that there is a deeply buried trigger in all of us that we are not aware of.

I'm lucky because one of my best friends is a psychologist and shes been walking me through it.

She did give me an exercise to do that worked to lower the anxiety in minutes. Sit in a chair, cross your right ankle over the left and cross your right hand over your left. Keeping your hands in that position, raise your arma out in front of you till there in the middle of your chest and then take six deep breaths, then bring your arms into your chest and place your hands in the prayer position. This honestly worked for me

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Not only stress, but even the slightest noise.  The 'click' of a door closing......

 

Best wishes, all. 

 

Dee

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We are hyper-anxious, for sure, but it's more than that. We're also exhausted and foggy-headed, with our "executive function" impaired so we can't organize, prioritize, or plan - and so we feel like we're just not up to it. Anything at all. Not up to it. When I wake up in the morning and think about all the things I have to do, and how not up to it I feel, that in itself causes anxiety. Luckily, after I get up and have a cup of coffee, I feel more up to it, and I actually get some things done, though not nearly as much as I should or once could. But some day, I hope. Some day I will. If the healing continues...

[[Fa...]]

I've been absolutely overwhelmed with anxiety lately which is not something that I got before the benzos but I am in a way greatful because it's unearthed an issue I wasn't aware of (my trigger), and it's so buried deep down, I wouldn't have figured it out without the wd from benzos magnifying the anxiety. The likely hood is that there is a deeply buried trigger in all of us that we are not aware of.

I'm lucky because one of my best friends is a psychologist and shes been walking me through it.

She did give me an exercise to do that worked to lower the anxiety in minutes. Sit in a chair, cross your right ankle over the left and cross your right hand over your left. Keeping your hands in that position, raise your arma out in front of you till there in the middle of your chest and then take six deep breaths, then bring your arms into your chest and place your hands in the prayer position. This honestly worked for me

 

I will try this next time! Thank you!!

 

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Fakeit i was exactly like this but it is easing up 50%, it started to ease about 6 weeks ago when i hit 16 months off, i used to feel like I'd been hit hard in the chest when any sort of stress happened but not as bad atm.

[[De...]]

Feeling overwhelmed is my primary symptom which leads to many other symptoms. If I can't just sit and watch television or surf online where I can distract myself from "life" I basically go into a state of panic - not a panic attack or anxiety but a state of panic. And then all the other symptoms show up. My rib and abdomen muscles go into a painful spasm. My intestines go into a painful spasm. I can't take a deep breath which prevents me from getting enough oxygen so it makes the panic, spams and pain worse. All I have to do is think about all the things I should be doing and and my body goes into one big spasm. 

 

And I can't think straight. I can't make decisions. I'm totally confused. It takes me forever to do anything that requires thinking like balancing the checkbook. And on top of everything I'm 72 and I'm responsible for my mom who is 94 and lives in an assisted living facility. Just talking to her on the phone causes me to go into a state of panic with spasms/pain not to mention when I have to manage her finances and all her medicine. And being single I'm doing this without support. I have two daughters but one just had a baby and the other home schools her two girls. You talk about stress. I'm about 90% disabled. I simply can't function. I certainly understand what you're experiencing.

[[Ma...]]

I would say your body is not in a disorder - its a Mary Kondo and trying to bring balance back.

 

This doesn't feel nice at the beginning. but its normal.

 

I cannot tell you what I am able to handle today. I cry every 2d day because I notice I can do new things! I cry happy tears!

Today I sat on my bike. Its 10 years I did that..

2 Days before I had dinner with someone AFTER work.

 

Still sensitive to stress, but it comes a time you NOTICE the difference.

 

Sending you hope, Fakeit!

[[De...]]

Here's one tool I use that helps. It's an audio recording of a therapist providing a more realistic perspective on things when feeling overwhelmed.

 

http://cbt4panic.org/audio-number-3-if-you-feel-overwhelmed/

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It’ll all go away.  I had it so bad I’d get panics just answering the phone.  I couldn’t even talk.  If someone cut me off while driving I couldn’t even yell at them.  It would cause an immediate adrenaline rush.  Too much time outside, noise, motion.  All of it.  Anything would overwhelm my system. 

For me it was a long haul but I still remember how disturbing it was. 

 

 

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Yes! What made me terrified, was if someone would call the door. "Maybe, they wanted to hurt my family?"

 

And as "deadwood" has written: "the click of a door closing". I was so scared!

 

But now, I have no problem, and everything disappeared.

 

I hope, you feel better soon!

 

Anna

[[Fa...]]

Thank you so much everyone!

[[Fa...]]

Thanks again everyone for replying!!  It helps to know others had this symptom.

 

Here's another question though.  I don't remember having this symptom SO bad through the past year.

It only seems to have flared up super bad as of late.  I mean REALLY bad.

 

The SMALLEST thing just send me into a total frenzy like I'm going mad and am going to lose my mind!! 

Just seeing my mother's name come up on my phone - then she proceeds to tell me she burnt dinner last night and OMG I feel like the world is going to end!!  She has beginning stage Parkinson and all I can see is her house burning down and me having to put her in a home and on and on and on....

 

WHAT THE HECK!!??

 

THIS HAS TO STOP!!  I need my brain back!!!

 

 

[[bo...]]

It's a really miserable feeling. What's changed for me is I used to need to be occupied and stressed out just to cope with the crazy symptoms. Now it feels like the more I have to do or the more I have to think about the crazier I feel. For instance, I had to make a decision as to what music to listen to in the shower today and that made me feel really bad. Also, every little decision I have to make for lesson plans for work makes me feel terrible. My buddy calling me and relaying any information that might be stressful causes it. I think about what I have to do the next day and feel it.

 

For me it leads to anger and annoyance, which leads to confusion, and then lots of sadness. I hope this goes away for us soon.

[[Fa...]]

It's a really miserable feeling. What's changed for me is I used to need to be occupied and stressed out just to cope with the crazy symptoms. Now it feels like the more I have to do or the more I have to think about the crazier I feel. For instance, I had to make a decision as to what music to listen to in the shower today and that made me feel really bad. Also, every little decision I have to make for lesson plans for work makes me feel terrible. My buddy calling me and relaying any information that might be stressful causes it. I think about what I have to do the next day and feel it.

 

For me it leads to anger and annoyance, which leads to confusion, and then lots of sadness. I hope this goes away for us soon.

 

OMG< especially the last sentence is EXACTLY what I'm feeling.  This is SO crazy.

 

I think it helps me realize it could be from the Ativan since we're experiencing the same symptoms . . . EXACTLY.