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How to stop really horrible anxiety?

I get really bad anxiety in my every day life. I obsess about every simple little thing, and my mind is always going around in circles. I'm always thinking about what i have to do, instead of concentrating on other things. I have to keep a daily list of things that i need to do otherwise i obsess about it. Sometimes i can't get to sleep because i'm sitting in bed late at night obsessing and writing things down that i want to remember. and it won't even be about something important, i'll be in class and think of a song that i want to download and i obsess about it and don't concentrate on my work, until i write it down, and even then it doesn't help until i think of something else. I also forget things easily and again, i obsess about it until i remember, and then i obsess about remembering it. I wouldn't be so worried but it has been happening a lot lately, and it's about a lot of stupid trivial things. does anybody have any idea how to get rid of it? or should i go see a doctor. I need help!

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1. Yes,go to the Dr. Lexapro will do the trick.
2. Yoga. Really. Rate me Pleeeeeeeeeease!
3. I have a similar problem. I tend to make lists of peculiar things such as songs, DVDs I'd like to buy, breeds of dogs I'll choose from (these obsessive lists were from my childhood) As a singer/songwriter whom aspires to start a unique/influential band, I write lots of lists of my songs over and over again that I've yet to finish just so I remember, and lists of cover songs I'd like to sing/play. I think that if no medicine or therapy is available, you should just let it all out on paper. I've heard that this is a specific condition, which is not necessarily bad, is a unique way in which a person's brain may function. Forgot the term, but a major trait of it would include the list making and constant need to write things down. Many of these people tend to make great lyricists, musicians, creative beings, artists, intellectuals, ect. with their unique approach to thinking. Unless I'm mistaken entirely.. lol Regardless, just talk to your doctor about it. It's interfering with your life, so I can understand the cause for concern.
4. Definitely see your doctor, who should refer you to a therapist for this. It's a kind of OCD you've got.
5. don't know if this will work for you but it sure did for me. i was depressed for a long time when i was younger and i had bad anxiety attacks, i couldent even work for a while the anxiety was so bad , I did not want to kill my self or any thing like that, just kind of down in the dumps and lost interest in a lot of things i used to like a lot i tried different types of medicine and it just made me feel like a zombie or made it worse so eventually gave up on that kind of thing and i took matters in to my own hands. this is what i did i started working out 5 days a week,eating really healthy, like oatmeal and veggie sandwiches. no meet or junk food except for Fridays, i started taking a multi vitamin that has a lot of b vitamins in it and a omega complex vitamin every day, in the morning i have shot of apple cider vinegar in half a glass of watter (look up apple cider vinegar for heath benefits ), I drink a lot of green tea and water through out the day, i eat bananas for the postaium, i also quit smoking cigarettes and drinking. every thing i mentioned here has excellent health benefits that should help with depression a lot, and just make you feel better in general and give you more energy.. some days i would get up and go back to sleep 2 hours later and stay asleep till i got up to go to work that night.. basically i was lazy, pissed off, had no energy or motivation and was depressed, one day i forced my self to start working out.. i noticed a big rush of energy when i was done.. and every day i forced my self to work out.. and felt much better every day after i had worked out. some times you got to make your self do things.. no matter how crappy you feel or lazy and mad you are.. just do it, you may halve to force your self to start doing things but you must start doing them or nothing will change... start dressing nice and get a good hair cut you look good you feel good, also you may want to look up 5-htp its a amino acid you get in the vitamin section at wall greens or where ever that pretty much does what anti depressants do.. increase your seretonin levels... only this is natural and not a bunch of chemicals mixed to gather like the medicines.. some other alternatives to taking medicine, some people like st. johns wort a lot but it takes a while to start working, and there is also something called L-Theanine, its a vitamin that is kind of hard to find. its got some of the stuff that green tea has in it. and its purpouse is to put a person in a really calm mood, i hear a lot of people with anxiety think that helps out the most out of any thing they have tried the anxiety attacks were scarry i thought i was gonna die and went to the emergency room a few times just to be told nothing was wrong with me. i would get really hot, my heart would pound, my vision would get crazy, my arms would go numb and all kinds of stuff, it was horrifying, after i was able to assure my self that it was just anxiety and nothing was wrong when i would get a attack i was able to calm my self down and get rid of it in a few seconds, that took a while but i eventually got there and learned to controol them, i no longer have the attacks, it did take a while to get rid of them but i did it and they are gone.. mind over matter go see that move yes man with jim carrye too.. it will really make you think about your life... and how easy you can change it for the better..