Social & Performance anxiety getting me down

[JN25BN]

Hi

I've been struggling with social and performance anxiety for a while now (about 7 years), but I've only recently started to get help. The problem is, my therapist is also struggling to help me. When I get anxious, I feel the usual symptoms I've read about on this site, and very soon after I become VERY tired. It's like I just want to go to sleep. It's also like going into a trance, staring into space and completely disconnecting from everything. Like being hypnotized and not able to snap out of it. What makes it even worse, it is like my night and day gets switched. I only want to sleep during the day (have no energy), and at night I can't fall asleep. This only makes dealing with my anxiety and every day activities even harder. What should I do???

[Gray Matter]

Social Phobia has me by the neck, I force my self to do things to get social outside the house. Now everything works different for other people. I also has Agoraphobia, Severe Depression. GAD , OCD and severe seasonal SAD. So getting hold of Social Phobia is one thing that I fail at allot. You know last nightI sat around atable of fellow sufferers 15-19 pepole in an ADA group meeting and felt calm for the first time in years, Doctors, spouces, therapist don't know how we feel so deep we can't explain it but sitting around that table was like the best thing I have had happen to me in long time, "Then my car brakes went out on the way home." just a way to ruin the moment of pease I felt. You might need to change therapist, and find the right one, we all do it change therapist like bic lighters, I am on my 3 in two years.I don't know about perforamnce anxiety so I won't comment on that I would probaly give you wrong ideas and make things worse. I won't close by saying hang in there, we all that is an empty answer, I will close with one thoought. You are actually the one who starts these Phobias, so think really what is the trigger and work on it with your theraist, YOU ARE CAPABLE TO SHUT OFF BOTH PHOBIAS, YOU JUST NEED TO LEARN HOW, ITS ALL IN YOUR BRAIN GET THE RIGHT MEDS AND GET THE RIGHT PROFFESSIONAL HELP.

[JN25BN]

Thanks for your comment Grey Matter. Your response make me feel less alone in this. You're right, these phobias are out own creations and only we can kill/ control them. I'm glad to hear that it went well with the ADA group, even though you got car trouble afterwards. I don't know about you, but those moments count a lot for me... like I just achieved something big. Anyway, just wanted to thank you for your words, and good luck