How to continue from here?
In the past few months I have noticed a few things that have gotten worse, I have been a high A student all through school (I’m now a junior in hs) but recently I have had a hard time focusing on anything whether it’s in school or out. I start something and I cannot finish it without doing ten other things first. I’m also one that worries a lot, I’ve been told by all my friends to just stop worrying but it doesn’t happen like that. I’ll worry about things that I probably shouldn’t, sometimes I can’t go to sleep because I keep worrying how I’m going to follow through with whatever the worry is. Recently I’ve have also been more anxious when I’m with a lot of loud people or in situations I cannot control or predict the outcome. There have been a few episodes I guess I’d call them where I have to walk away because I’m shaking, and my heart feels like it’s beating 1 million times a minute. Christmas I had the worst one yet, I was cooking and around a big group of people all day then when we went to our Airbnb my step dad was purposely speeding up on winding roads to get a rise out of me but it made me really anxious, we got back to the Airbnb and i had to go upstairs to calm down. I sat up there and I started shaking, crying, felt like I couldn’t breathe, and felt like my heart was beating super fast, and had a tingling in my face and hands. It was something I felt like I couldn’t control, I couldn’t stop any of those things it just went on for about 30-45 minutes. I’ve almost convinced myself that this is anxiety and something that needs to be checked out for medication or therapy to help. My sister has anxiety and severe depression which she takes medication for, hers was diagnosed at either 18/19. After what happened on Christmas I’ve been thinking I need to beg my mom to take me to see a psychiatrist but I’m not sure if that’s what I need to do, if this is an anxiety disorder or something else. I wanted another few opinions before i did anything else, feel free to ask any other questions if that helps.
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