The littlest things stress me out. Sometimes I'll get so stressed out by the end of the day I'll just break down and cry, hyperventilate, and then force myself to sleep so I don't have to think about it. Then a majority of the time I'll wake up with a major head ache.
I've gone to the doctor for symptoms of light headedness, heart palpitations, shaking, nausea, head aches, paleness and dizziness. The doctor did a blood test for anemia, blood sugar levels, blood platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells, etc. I also had to do an EKG/ECG and strep test. All tests came back normal so he had me come back a week later and his end diagnosis was "just a bug".
When it gets really bad people will comment I look like a ghost I get so pale and sickly. I will feel so terribly shaky and lightheaded I feel like I'll faint.
Should I go back to the doctor and tell him it might be something with anxiety?
Answers & Comments
It is good you got checked out. You could get your doctor to refer you to a therapist for this.
If there is no physical cause then there is a reason for this to be there.
You can also try homeopathic remedies for this. It depends on what was going on when
this began. You can have anxiety from some earlier shock or trauma that makes no sense
now but the nervous energy never got released from your system. Remedies are at the
health stores and whole foods and online. You can see a local homeopath, or go online to
justask.com ask a homeopath who can suggest something for you depending on what
was going on at the start.
Go back and say that something is wrong, many things happen that doctors havent figured out in history and they just diagnose it as NOTHING you seem like there is something inside of you which is affecting your nervous system, go back to the doctor and see a psychologist or therapist to see if it in your head at the same time, but do not wait........ In the mean time, try to do things to keep yourself calm, look up some wayse to relax and unwind.
Your symptoms may be caused by a variety of things including pharmaceutical products, physiological disorders and other medical conditions, and psychological makeup.
Whether the symptoms are called by unspecified stress cannot be determined from your data so far (you have given no description of what you consider to be stressful, just a list of symptoms).
Continue to seek medical advice, a second opinion.
Perhaps you can also get some advice from a clinical psychologist, leaving the possible medical implications with a doctor.
In the meantime, here his some philosophy:
The dhamma teaches that there are two kinds of health, namely, physical health and mental health. Many people enjoy good physical health even into old age. But relatively few people enjoy good mental health unless they are vigilant and relentless in rooting out delusional thinking, alleviating ignorance via insight and rational inquiry.
Your perceptions and desires are products of conditioning and other sentient experience you have acquired up to this point in life. You can change the contents of your mind, and you can shape your mind to be pro-social, rational, and smarter, too. (That task is part of what is called mental development and, in my opinion, requires a long-term commitment to high quality education about the real world beyond your current problematic situation, including the evolution of our species, and how the human mind has evolved with evolution of our brain.)
Some kinds of suffering are self-imposed although we do not always recognize this to be the case. Instead we are on a sort of automatic behavior method of coping with reality. We can change our sentient experience however by a sort of deconstruction into component parts; from that point it is ultimately a matter of adopting new, rational, wholesome paradigms.
Unless you have brain damage, as in dementia, you will never lose certain mental schemas and memories. Your inner life is largely based on those schemas. The perceptions and sentient experience you have can be moderated and shaped purposefully as long as you are still functioning. Such an approach requires vigilance and practice. It can be enhanced with greater knowledge of the real world and acquisition of critical thinking skills.
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Consciousness is a function of a cognitive neural network processing both sensory data and memory. Sentient experience can be subjectively deconstructed into four foundations of mindfulness:
1. Mindfulness of body.
2. Mindfulness of sensation as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral (physical sensation).
3. Mindfulness of state of mind (attitude, emotion).
4. Mindfulness of content of mind (ideas, learned skills, memory, mental images, beliefs).
Sit in a comfortable position, legs crossed and back erect if possible, and with as little noise and distraction as possible. Focus your mind only on your breathing, counting mentally “1 in, 1 out, 2 in, 2 out, 3 in …” and so on for a cycle of four or five breaths. If your mind strays from your breath, which it inevitably will, make the experience the target of mindfulness, attempt to deconstruct the activity as in the above schema, and return to count the breaths mentally.
As you do this there will be the usual background of a continuous stream of thoughts, random or specific ideas, and images, feelings that come and go. Any of these can distract you, but you can just ignore them, too. The brain will do this sort of thing as long as you live. There is no need to suppress any of it; your brain normally processes information via random association or cognitive models you have acquired either on purpose or by random experience. These are the things that usually drive your perceptions and behavior, even your dreams.