Anxiety?

I’m pretty sure I’ve got pretty bad anxiety. I’ve never talked to a doctor about it, because I feel like I’ve just recently realized what I’m feeling is anxiety.

I’ve always been ‘shy’ but I feel like it’s more than that. I’ve gotten to the point I don’t even like leaving the house. I hate interacting with people at all! If I have to make a phone call to make an appointment or anything it stresses me out so much, even though I know it shouldn’t. I try to put it off as long as I can, or even try to push it off on some else. If it gets to the point that I do have to do it, I’ll silently be praying that they don’t pick up the phone.

I feel like it’s effecting my marriage because I can’t be apart of my husbands family stuff. His brother got married this summer and I tried my hardest to get out of going, but still had to go. I was so nervous the whole time that I felt like puking, I even got up and went to the bathroom a couple times because I thought I was going to puke.

I won’t drive any where but to work and back home. I’m too scared to go anywhere extra. On road trips my family gets mad at me because I can’t help with any of the driving.

I could go on and on, but it’s literally all day every day I feel so nervous or stressed about everything. I even wore old glasses that I could barely see out of for over a year because I was too scared to call the eye doctor. And the only reason I went was because my brother made us both appointments and we went at the same time.

Does that sound like anxiety or am I overreacting? And if it is anxiety does medication for it work?