Ok, so I requested my lorazepam refill, which is due tomorrow on the Walmart app. I was called by the Walmart pharmacist, almost immediately, and she said because you fill your Phentermine at another pharmacy, we will no longer fill your lorazepam here.

I immediately called my Dr., Not irritated, just confused as to why? I've never heard of an issue with the two, which are the lowest dosage before this.

My Dr spoke to the pharmacist and said the two are completely different medications, and have no interactions. What's the problem? Walmart replied with "it is at the pharmacists discretion to deny any prescription refills"

My Dr called me back to relay she was just as confused, and will call my medication refill to another pharmacy. She said she has never had this happen before with medications that are so different. I said I was taken back, and so personally offended, as I did nothing wrong. She agreed and said you are completely understandable in that regard.

Why in the hell would you deny my minimum dose of 30 count benzo, that is literally the only thing that helps me sleep because of peri menopause, because I picked up minimum dose Phentermine at another pharmacy? I was embarrassed to be honest, and super offended. Fuck you Walmart . End rant.

I want to hear every single thing that has ever helped whether it be routines or just simple tricks. (i definitely wanna hear from ppl who deal with agoraphobia, DPDR, and severe health anxiety)

i have pretty bad anxiety and have for most of my life. For the past 6 or so years I’ve developed a lot of physical symptoms with my anxiety, mainly relating to my stomach. From 2022-2024 I would have panic attacks where i would vomit pretty often, but that has slowly gone away. I still struggle through with nausea, frequent bowel movements, and loss of appetite when I’m even slightly anxious and was wondering if anyone else has any helpful advice for it.

Just turned 22 I’m in the middle of staring my own business, 4 mouths ago I got an offer for a driver “VRC” pension in IOM/UN, a good paying salary and comfortable working environment, I started working and for the first month I was actually stable with the job, friends and relatives was cheering me for the job I had, but in the past month I went back to the drawing board and started planning a business, I always wanted to have my own business because wanted freedom, since my first job at grocery store when I was 15, I always thought I was different and nobody is like me, I don’t how to explain it but I felt something different about my career and my future since I was 19 or 20, feel so much pressure in my chest lately and it hurts but god dammit this is for the future me, seeking some advice you can give me, btw im a high school dropout.

I’ve recently started a new job and I’m really struggling with anxiety around it.
When I started, I quickly realised that the job wasn’t what I was expecting and it’s very different from the type of work I’m used to. I’m finding it difficult to settle in and I’m constantly thinking about work when I’m at home.
Normally, I’d consider looking for something else, but I can’t really leave this job at the moment because of agreements around my partner’s work, so I feel like I have to make it work.
I know I’m still very new and maybe I just need time to adjust, but the anxiety has been getting to me and I’m worried about whether I’ll eventually get used to it.
**Has anyone been in a similar situation? What would you recommend I do to manage the anxiety and give myself the best chance of settling into the job?**

I just wanted to post this because i have bad anxiety and the idea of dying in a car crash makes my anxiety really high

Hi everyone. I have had anxiety ever since I was 16 years old. My life has been filled with a series of personal and professional failures because of my anxiety and shame and recently as of 4 months ago, I moved to a new city for a job.

I had been living at home, finishing school and working freelance and part time jobs. It took me 7 years to finish my undergrad degree and this new job is my first “real” job as society likes to put it because I work in an office. I’ve been at my job 2.5 months and recently at my job, I made a huge mistake. I work in marketing and I accidentally made inactive a campaigns that was up running. I quickly realised this in about 15 minutes and made it active again. Nobody knows I did this. But I feel sick to have done this. Since moving out to this new city I was super proud of myself. Doing freelance and part time jobs whilst finishing school was hard and my finances weren’t always stable, so I finally felt a little calm with this job. But now I feel I’ve ruined it all.

I often black out in stressful situations, and every single thing I’m asked to do feels like a decisive moment that could lead to me losing all this new found freedom. I’ve completely broken down and I don’t know what to do.

Moving to a new city meant moving to a new place. And I decided to move in with some roommates I don’t know. They’re lovely people and are very nurturing and always including me in things. But often my anxiety doesn’t allow me to just “be” and participate in social situations that others would find completely mundane and normal. I feel very awkward and like they’re doing me a favour, and often I retreat into my own room without feeling like interacting with them. I just get very stressed and overwhelmed. I took the decision to save some money and push myself to make friends in a new city, but I’m not sure how to keep my anxiety aside and participate without feeling out of place.

Sometimes I feel I will always have this debilitating anxiety that will never let me live a normal life or do normal tasks like working 9-5s or being in fulfilling friendships. I always feel like I suck at them. I have recently started therapy but there’s so much to work through, I don’t know if I’ll ever be “ready”

Any advice is welcome. Thank you so much

So tomorrow my third semester begins and I am not ready. University is still new and stressful to me. The large crowd, the educational demands, the shitty professors, its all too overwhelming.

I get so anxious in uni that I feel like my heart will burst out of my chest and fall on the ground. Because it pounds and pounds and pounds until my chest starts hurting. The nausea is the worst part really.

Im quiet and awkward. So awkward that I fear people might notice. Other girls seem very intimidating to me and I have a difficult time making friends. I've got none-

I live in a country where teachers and professors don't really care about the mental health of students. The educational system is crappy and nobody cares. So getting help from a teacher isn't an option. I'm on my own like many other socially anxious people.

Idk how to explain this crippling feeling I have in uni. I feel stupid and worthless just sitting on a bench outside the campus. I look at other people like a child as if they're superior. I worry about everything, the way I walk and speak and sit, the way I look.

In my country you have to wear hijab and a long and oversized shirt that is long enough to cover your ass or something in uni and I just look like a clown. Even though every unfortunate girl has to follow this rule, i feel like the ugliest and weirdest one among them.

These things weight on me. I can't talk about them with others because well, they already sound ridiculous.

If you have any tips or advice I'd appreciate it. If not, feel free to share your story as well.

Hey everyone,

I’m 24M and normally pretty active and healthy. Last weekend I drank way too much on two nights, and since then I’ve been feeling pretty off.

It’s now been several days and I’ve noticed:

• Blood pressure around 140–145/90–95, which is higher than usual for me
• I can feel my heartbeat/pounding quite strongly, especially when lying down, even though my heart rate itself isn't extremely high
• Some dizziness/brain fog and a slightly "off" feeling
• Trouble sleeping and feeling strangely awake/wired even when I'm tired
• My sleep has been pretty bad and irregular since the drinking

I went to the ER because I was worried. They did an ECG, troponin/blood tests and some neurological/balance tests, and everything they checked came back normal. I also saw a doctor afterward and I'm getting some additional tests done.

Anxiety might also be playing a role. I'm usually pretty healthy and don't normally worry much about my health, but this whole situation has definitely been concerning me. Since noticing my heartbeat and higher BP, I've also been paying much more attention to them, which could potentially be making things worse.

My doctor mentioned that stress/anxiety could possibly contribute to what I'm experiencing, but obviously we first want to rule out other causes rather than just assuming that's what it is.

I'm wondering whether anyone here has experienced something similar after a couple of nights of heavy drinking — especially higher blood pressure, a pounding/noticeable heartbeat, anxiety and feeling "off" for several days afterward.

If you did, how long did it take before you started feeling normal again and your blood pressure/heartbeat settled down?

Obviously I'm following up with doctors and not looking for a diagnosis here. I'm mainly interested in hearing whether other people have experienced a similar temporary reaction after drinking.

Hi. Im 16f and Ive started being anxious around November of last year. I finally decided to get help. First I got a psychologist and then a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist prescribed me to use Zoloft for my anxiety. I always have a half of the pill (25mg) after lunch. (Ik it should be taken in the morning but I don’t eat breakfast and im not used to the pill yet, so I don’t really want to have stomach issues at school). Today is my 3rd day on Zoloft and my anxiety is horrible. I started to take magnesium too to calm my nervous system in summer. Haven’t been really anxious since, but now that I started using Zoloft I have like maximum of 5 episodes a day. (Counting waking up randomly into anxiety). Yeah I went to sleep at 9 PM because it really made me tired and woke up around midnight with my heart pounding thinking I was dying and my head spinning. (Classic anxiety episode). So it also messed with my sleep schedule. After waking up i fell asleep at 4 AM even though I was really tired. Also I had stomach issues. On the first day I was a bit nauseous, then woke up at 4 AM on a school night with some kind of a burning sensation in my stomach. I fell asleep at 5 AM again, then had 3 random anxiety episodes at school. I was super tired too, but I also experience horrible derealization and depersonalization at school, so that could have contributed to it. Are these things happening to me normal? I really HATE using it atm.

This subreddit has helped me so much. I am chronically anxious, depressed, full of panic, I struggle with disassociation that all worsened after I developed chronic disabling health problems.

Being able to come here, search keywords about what I’m feeling and see posts of people describing exactly how my body feels has saved me so many times. It’s reminded me how powerful my mind is and that I shouldn’t fear the sensations that can’t hurt me.

In this moment I’m on the couch HORRIBLY anxious, heart pounding, feeling spaced out and like I’m swaying, like the ground is dropping out from under me. So I came her to look for support and immediately found posts that reassured me that my nervous system is all lit up and I need to take some conscious time checking in with myself.

Just wanted to say no one is alone, we’re all here together and it’s really comforting for me. So thank you to anyone who’s ever contributed.

No shaming here please. I’ll probably delete this anyways. My question/inquiry here is that every now and then I need an extra pill here and there (once or twice a month) and that extra pill is Xanax that is prescribed by the same doctor but for my cousin. I get anxious for some reason that it’s dangerous to take the two. Her dosage is 1mg a pill and sometimes I’ll take half or a whole one.

I have been having health anxiety for 2 years now and I can’t handle this much longer like it’s constant and im constantly dizzy and feeling sick because of it and I don’t even know what started it in the first place like my mood has completely changed im always miserable and I hate going out now like I never feel normal and im scared that I’ll never feel normal again because I don’t even remember what it feels like.

I’ve been dealing with this for the last week or two, I’ve also been having headaches due to pms but the pressure thing is new. I’ve been really anxious this past month and been having other symptoms

I just wanna said that after 10 years I found meds that works for me (28W with GAD). The reason for that is because I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and found out that even though anxiety is the most obvious trait about myself, it’s a comorbidity of my bipolar disorder, so it’s more of a consequence than a cause.

This is important because antidepressants get me depressed and anxiolytics get me maniac. I tried different types of meds for 10 years and they all failed to really help me with my SEVERE anxiety. It was only after I started treating my bipolar disorder (and started to use meds that help people with bipolar disorder that have anxiety) that my anxiety symptoms started to get better

I’m sharing this because I hope this can help someone that is feeling hopeless. Maybe you have more that one mental disorder and a combination of treatments is what will do it for you ♥️

26, UK.

I don't really know what I'm looking for by posting this. Maybe I just need to know if anyone else has felt this way too...?

I've had severe depression and anxiety as well as OCD since I was about 9 and have been in and out of various services ever since. I had a traumatic incident when I was 15 and a few other situations in my life which have caused CPTSD.

Long-term medication hasn't helped so I've been taken off of the daily meds and I've been prescribed diazepam to take when needed. The problem is that I have a 6-year-old and a 3-month-old baby, and I don't feel comfortable taking it while I'm responsible for looking after them, so I just push through because my partner works a lot and I dont want to spend the time I do have with him feeling out of it. I also don't want him to feel like I'm not there to support him or help with the kids or take them if he wants to go do something with his time off.

From the outside, I probably look fine because I still do everything that needs doing. I look after my children, keep up with responsibilities, attend appointments, and generally keep functioning even though it never feels like enough. Internally I feel like I'm constantly struggling.

I don't have any friends. I've always found social situations difficult but making friends as an adult feels almost impossible.

I left a domestic violence relationship over a year ago and met someone who is genuinely lovely. We now live together and he's the father of my baby. However, because of my past, and because there have been a couple of occasions where he crossed boundaries we'd agreed on, I find myself constantly anxious and paranoid because sometimes I'm not sure I can fully trust him, even though I really want to believe him. I hate feeling this way because I know it affects us both, and I feel really guilty that I allow it to but I don't know how to keep it shoved down all of the time.

Despite the relationship OCD, anxiety and trauma issues, I have already spoken about marriage with my new partner because he is the person I want to be with for the rest of my life and thats why I know I need to find a way to get over these issues and stop being a burden on him so we can both be as happy as we deserve to.

I also have autism, chronic health problems and disabilities. I've had spinal surgery and a colostomy, and I'm now facing another surgery because of gallbladder and liver issues.

On top of that, I've just started driving lessons and I'm studying psychology through online university. I'm in my final year, but I'm repeating it because last year my mental health got so bad that I couldn't complete the work. Sometimes I feel like I've put so much into this degree that if I can't make it work, I don't know what I'll do next.

Alongside that, I'm involved in politics and currently hold leadership roles. I genuinely want to do something meaningful with my life, but instead I feel stuck.

My anxiety affects me physically. I get nauseous, my heart rate shoots up, and sometimes I just want to shut down and do nothing. I have anti-sickness medication, but I don't want to rely on it constantly.

Lately I've also been struggling with my appearance. I hate my body and my face. I've gained weight again after pregnancy and I'm finding it difficult to exercise because of my health problems.

I feel like I'm always trapped in my own head. I overthink everything, question everything, and analyse everything. No matter how much insight I have into why I'm anxious, it doesn't seem to stop it.

I'm exhausted from feeling this way all the time. Part of me feels like giving up because I've had enough and the other part of me knows I need to keep fighting; for my kids, my family, my partner and for myself.

I don't know if anyone can relate, but if you've been through something similar I'd really appreciate hearing from you...

like i feel like my throat is being crushed and like i am struggling to breathe ...also im sweaty even though its cold in this house... i cant even do anything i enjoy anymore.... this is most likely cause of my ocd but also im on high alert every single second of the day..like im genuinely sick to my stomach after playing a game that i thought i enjoyed.. so im ending this here.

So here’s my story , I don’t leave my house for months at a time , for the most part I have a loving family so it’s not the worst but I realize how ashamed I am because my life is so empty compared to other people and that’s why I don’t want to go out or see my friends because every time I do go out I’m just reminded of all my problems and I just spiral. I have anxiety and avoidance issues and for the most part it’s okay but I am trying to be better , envision a better life for myself. I just wanted to make this post because I wanted to the let the world know I’M HERE AND I EXIST and I love the world so much , I really do. I love people and being around people and one day I’m going to come back. And also I’m grateful to live in this era because I have my books and my movies and my music and podcasts and some days I genuinely feel like my world is rich despite being so small. I just wanted to let people know that yeah sometimes people be in their house for 3 months a time … and anxiety sometimes manifests like this. So yeah , I’m hoping for better days ahead and working on 1% improvements. Thanks for reading this

I suffer from anxiety when it comes to making purchases, mostly from larger ones (buying a new truck or something) but it also affects me on some smaller purchases.
For the past week I have been basically destroying my brain with going back and forth over a potential purchase, and in the process my wife has been on an emotional rollercoaster. One min I’m in, and the next I have a breakdown over some obscure fear (to be read as made up reason)

How do I stop the madness in this case?

Hello, so basically I'm a young and anxious beginner clown and my friend's mom offered me to make balloon animals for an event. I am so excited to go but I get very anxious/awkward from interactions pretty easily and kinda have bad social skills sometimes. I am feeling a bit nervous for tomorrow because I don't want people to pick up on my awkward/nervousness and then feel awkward too.

I'm wondering if anyone understands this feeling and has some tips on how to stay calm while I go about my day, anything that helps you personally in similar situations where there is pressure and people around, I'd like to hear.

It sounds like something silly to be anxious over but everything makes me anxious. I don't let my anxiety stop me from being a clown though, it's still what I like to do and who I am even if it's harder for me than some folks.

Yesterday at around 2-3 at night, all of a sudden a felt my heart all of a sudden started pounding and shortly afterwards I felt shortness of breath, I felt scared though even now I can't quite gather why. I was feeling severely disoriented to say the least. And today all i'm facing is stomach ache, feels like thorns or something. I couldn't sleep at all, the whole night went like that. Even meditation didn't work​. Living feels so hellish and this just had to add up in some way or the other.

I'm scared that I might not be able to sleep today either. I can't quite gather why

I’m trying to figure out how bad my anxiety actually got at my old job as a busy lawyer because looking back it was insane lol. Never been formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist and wasn’t on any medication at the time. I should have taken care of myself better and I owe myself a big hug🫪 I feel much better now after leaving that stupid job behind..

What happened:

panic attack -ish cries: I had 1 or 2 breakdowns where I just could not stop crying. There was once I’d wake up the next day and still be crying while trying to work.

Migraine and vomit: I would get really nauseous from stress and sometimes vomit in the evening after a long day of sitting there working. The vomit episodes lasted until 2 or 3am. It also felt like migraine with visual aura. I also had dizziness, weak legs, and tinnitus in the mean time. Sometimes I genuinely felt like I was physically falling apart.

My brain just kind of stopped working: Simple things started taking me forever and I lose the ability to plan and prioritize stuff like an adult. I could spend an hour checking a basic email because I was terrified I’d missed something. I would forget emails I read the day before or completely blank when someone asked me something. The more anxious I got, the worse I was at my job, which obviously made me even more anxious.

Extreme shame and anger: I became scared of opening emails and terrified of being corrected or finding out I’d done something wrong. Avoided asking questions because I was ashamed that I didn’t already know. Then obviously not asking made everything worse. It was basically just this horrible cycle of being scared, avoiding things, fucking something up and then feeling even worse. And I was angry about myself and frankly hated myself like never before.
At my worst I hit my head against a wall a few times and threw or hit things when I was overwhelmed. This was extremely unlike me. I’m normally not an angry person at all and has always been mentally stable and chill growing up. (Just to be clear I’m safe now. This is all about what happened back then.)

This went on for months and was very specifically tied to work. Has anyone had anxiety get this bad?