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I'm So Tired Of Trying

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I can count on two hands how many medications I tried to help my generalized anxiety. I feel like yet another one is failing me again. I don't want to bring this up to the psychiatrist because I think she is frustrated with me. I try to tell her everything that goes on but she doesn't have the best beside manor and I don't know if I trust her. My therapist is a sweet lady but I am afraid she is getting frustrated with me too. I keep going back because I just want to get better and wake up one day and be free of anxiety. I want her to know I try so hard. I do take all of her suggestions but my anxiety is just that bad and I can't control it no matter how hard I try. I'm literally trying to pick apart my entire life to try and figure out what is causing all this anxiety. It really comes and goes and depends on the situations I am in and what has caused me to be anxious on a day to day basis. The answer is literally everything causes me anxiety. I hate when people talk about me behind my back. I hate my job and i'm going to school to try to get a new one. I feel I don't fit in at my current job I have been at for 10 years because I am a girl, and girls don't belong on construction sites. I get laughed at when I go on job sites. I don't want to learn the new technology out there because I am afraid it will cause more stress and I don't get paid enough for all of this stress. My coworker died a year in a half ago and I hate that I am now forced into a more senior position and am forced to make tougher decisions. I feel like I am completely unsure of myself. My coworker that sits behind me constantly asks me questions and then belittles me when I don't have a straight answer, or goes and asks my other coworker is my answer isn't good enough. I have it made up in my head that my work now is going to fire me before I can make it through school to find a new job. The boss that was a dick to me for the past 8 years has now done a 360 and is nice to me. I feel like he has something up his sleeve. He constantly tells my other coworkers that I talk too much and this isn't social hour. I'm sorry if I care about people and want to know how there weekend was for 2 minutes. Everyone thinks he is an asshole and honestly I think that he is a bit jealous of me that I get along so well with everyone. I feel like I won't be cut out for what I want to go to school for because I have anxiety so bad. When I am in the classroom everyone seems so much more less anxious then me. When I am anxious I stick out like a sore thumb. I hate talking in front of a group of people, but I push myself and participate and sound like an idiot so I can get participation points. I can't even touch my husband right now how am I going to touch a complete stranger to get there blood pressure. I know I am a lot less anxious when I can talk to a person one on one. That is why I continue to go to school. When I try and explain why I am anxious sometimes it doesn't make sense but other times it does and I feel better after therapy. I feel so uncomfortable when my husband drinks in front of me and tries to hug and kiss me. I feel like everyone is always out to get me and I can't trust anyone because they will stab me in the back. I've been seeing a psychiatrist for four years and a therapist for three. I feel like I am fighting a war in my mind every day. I try every day to fight my anxiety. I run, I exercise, I do yoga, I meditate. I try so hard. I just can't win and I am getting so tired. I just want to lay in bed for a week and sleep and do absolutely nothing. I just don't know what other help I can get to try and fight this when everyone is already trying to help me with everything they have.
 
I can count on two hands how many medications I tried to help my generalized anxiety. I feel like yet another one is failing me again. I don't want to bring this up to the psychiatrist because I think she is frustrated with me.
It sounds like you are working hard to get better... It's very good to be in therapy alongside medication. Try to be as honest as you possibly can be, with both your psychiatrist and your therapist. You might ask them to speak to one another, to line up medication and therapy together. I'm on a lot of meds, but the general idea is to decrease them gradually, while I am going through talk therapy. I've been able to decrease one of my sleep meds - although I've added another to my daily regimen... It is not an easy road. I know I'm a frustrating patient, but by being open and honest, both my psychiatrist and my therapist know that I am working as hard as I can - even when there are down times.

Just.. hold on, I guess. I've been in a "what's-the-point" mood and I know it's exhausting. I have had to measure my progress in years, but I have gotten better - even when no one expected me to.
I keep going back because I just want to get better and wake up one day and be free of anxiety. I want her to know I try so hard.
If you can't tell this to your therapist, email or print this out and show it to her - she will see how hard you are trying, in the face of many difficulties. You are here, seeking help and support, after all. That is a very positive thing. Take care of yourself.
 
@Katiesue - how much do you think your anxiety is a product of your trauma/part of your PTSD - specifically in regard to thought patterns. Thoughts like 'everyone is out to get me', or 'I need to try and talk for the participation points'. You've listed a number of different specific events, and they probably have some common thoughts between them...so, do you see connections between those and what your trauma was?
 
@Katiesue - how much do you think your anxiety is a product of your trauma/part...
You are correct some of my anxiety was caused by my past trauma and I figured that out today when I talked about it with my therapist. She knows I am trying, I'm the one just being hard on myself. I had two good weeks followed by a bad week. I can't let the one bad week discourage me from what I gained the two weeks. I guess that is why I go see a therapist she knocked me right back to where I should be and I'm going to keep trying.
 
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