Help Please

Someone please help I think I'm going mad. I have these weird feelings in my body that I have been told could be withdrawal from anti-anxiety drugs but I'm scared. I have electric jolts going through me, especially when I try to go to sleep. My vision is blurred for a couple of seconds when I wake up. My body jerks and twitches when I try to sleep and I wake ealy at 4.00a.m. every day convinced I'm having a fit but have been told it is extreme anxiety. I think I have a brain tumour. Does anyone else out there have these weird things.

Thanks

Janemop

p.s. I take beta blockers for palpitations but nothing else.

You're not going mad/crazy believe me. You're suffering from classic symptoms of anxiety. Check out www.anxietycured.com & take notes. That should help inspire you to get better. Are these twitches physically painful?

Thanks for your reply. The twitching sometimes is with a 'zapping' through my body which feels weird but not really painful.
I will look at the site you recommend.
Thanks

Hi janemop, I hear ya. I know how awful it is to feel like you've got some horrible disease or a brain tumor or something, when it's really just anxiety. A great place to go to find someone to help you handle your anxiey is http://www.goodtherapy.org (http://goodtherapy.org) ... They believe it’s possible to heal and they have counselors all over the world.

-GJK

Hi Janemop

I have suffered from anxiety for over eight years and for the first couple of years I was convinced that I had a brain tumour. I begged my doctor to send me for a ct scan on several occasions.

Unfortunately, a friend of mine did develop a brain tumour and watching how it affected him made me realise that I didn't have one.

Brain tumours obviously affect people differently depending on where they occur on the brain but typical symptoms would be losing your motor skills (the ability to control your arms and legs - possibly on just one side of your body), slurring your speech, fitting, blindness, chronic headaches, nausea and/or drowsiness, severe personality changes.

Most diagnoses of brain tumours are made because people turn up at the doctor's reporting constant headaches or the onset of fitting.

Please don't take this personally but you probably know very little about what actually goes on in your body (most of us don't). I know that I occasionally experience violent twitches when I am dropping to sleep and I have always assumed this is quite common. I don't know about the focus thing when you wake up, maybe this is an effect of the beta-blockers. What I do know is that nobody wakes up fully aware and alert. The electric shock thing is a common symptom of anxiety that I have experienced myself on several occasions and I think it's down to imbalances of neuro-transmitters.

You have to be more objective about your health. If you are worried about a particular aspect of it, go to the doctor and tell him. If he's not worried then try to forget about it. I know it's hard but they train for years and they know what to look out for. Don't assume that you are ill just because you feel like you are ill. The mind is a very powerful thing and your reality is only a string of your own perceptions.

One more thing. My friend with the brain tumour had it removed over a year ago and he has lived a perfectly normal life since then. So even if your worst fears became reality, there is still hope.

I hope this has helped.

Best of luck

Chris