life help: I feel dead inside. - Help.com

I know. . I have thought long and hard about taking any sort of medication. The councellar I have been going to recently suggested that i saw a doctor about it, and things just went from there… But I feel so frustrated that I would try anything at this point.

Thank you. I will look through through them. The problem is that I already understand a lot of the strategies used for calming down with anxiety attacks - that the people i have seen don’t really have more they can do to help. I think that’s why they have suggested alternatives like seeing a psychiatrist and doctor. I have read plenty of books on stress, the flight-or-flight response, etc. repeated those words similar in my head for hours, trust me. I still get panicky even though I know all this stuff. My palms sweat,I get stomach pains, sometimes a gag reflex. and it lasts for 15 minutes to an hour. its an ongoing problem but its only surfaced this much since i have been back to highschool.

When I wrote that I felt dead inside, I was just expressing how I was depressed and it portrayed an empty, hollow feeling for me. I’m sorry if you took it so literal.

I have used those strategies countless times in the past years - like I said, this has been an ongoing problem for me. It still doesn’t do anything for the fact that I get panicky in certain situations, i.e. sitting in a classroom. . it is just the way I react. I understand that you are trying to help, but I don’t think you fully understood my situation. In fact I don’t really know what I was looking for when I posted this - I just wanted to express how I was feeling and maybe get some polite feedback, which I have to a certain degree.

Anyway, thank you for trying to help.