Mental Health Support Society Mk XIV

Hi, I'm new to this forum but am just wondering if it sounds like I'm getting anxiety. I'm on a last minute gap year and I have no job, nothing to do really and very little money to go out and see my friends. I was really motivated about looking for a job and exercising etc but these past 2 weeks I've just sort of crashed and I'm stuck in a cycle of procrastination and I can't seem to do anything productive with my time. I'm more irritable and my sleep cycle is completely out of whack - I go to bed late, have a good 9 or so hours of sleep, and I wake up late, lie in, and still feel tired and lethargic for the day. What's really worrying me though is that I've been getting palpitations recently, my heart starts to beat really strongly, my chest tightens, and I get short of breath.

I was worrying that it was literally a problem with my heart but now I'm wondering if it's anxiety from just generally feeling like I have no purpose. I keep tearing my nails so that they're really short and I'm wondering if that might be linked to anxiety too (when I was on holiday after results I was relaxed and I didn't pick and my nails grew really long, but then I got back and tore them all down again within a week or so). I'm a very academic person and a huge perfectionist so having no solid plan in place and nothing to do is really getting me down. The palpitations & shortness of breath are freaking me out and I'm just stuck in a rut - any advise would be greatly appreciated

Hello, won't be as around so much the next three weeks, as I will be in Asia. () Hope it will work out for me and well, still plenty stuff to do until I take the plane!

Hi, I'm new to this forum but am just wondering if it sounds like I'm getting anxiety. I'm on a last minute gap year and I have no job, nothing to do really and very little money to go out and see my friends. I was really motivated about looking for a job and exercising etc but these past 2 weeks I've just sort of crashed and I'm stuck in a cycle of procrastination and I can't seem to do anything productive with my time. I'm more irritable and my sleep cycle is completely out of whack - I go to bed late, have a good 9 or so hours of sleep, and I wake up late, lie in, and still feel tired and lethargic for the day. What's really worrying me though is that I've been getting palpitations recently, my heart starts to beat really strongly, my chest tightens, and I get short of breath.

I was worrying that it was literally a problem with my heart but now I'm wondering if it's anxiety from just generally feeling like I have no purpose. I keep tearing my nails so that they're really short and I'm wondering if that might be linked to anxiety too (when I was on holiday after results I was relaxed and I didn't pick and my nails grew really long, but then I got back and tore them all down again within a week or so). I'm a very academic person and a huge perfectionist so having no solid plan in place and nothing to do is really getting me down. The palpitations & shortness of breath are freaking me out and I'm just stuck in a rut - any advise would be greatly appreciated

had lunch in the dining room today proud of myself

------

Also hugs to Noodlzzz, Odd Socks what's a hamster ever going to do to him? Also make the most of it Dukey! Would quote all of you but I'd spam up the whole thread Big hugs to anyone that needs it though, basically


Posted from TSR Mobile

had lunch in the dining room today proud of myself

Have you seen them? Do you feel safe?

Just had a lecture on learning and the amygdala and my lecturer said that beta blockers do really bad things to your memory because of the affects of adrenaline and noradrenaline on learning. I'm screwed, lol.

Never heard that before, did he cite that statement?

Posted from TSR Mobile

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3907/

Extensive evidence indicates that stress hormones released from the adrenal glands are critically involved in memory consolidation of emotionally arousing experiences. Epinephrine, glucocorticoids, and specific agonists for their receptors administered after exposure to emotionally arousing experiences enhance the consolidation of long-term memories of these experiences.

In studies of human memory, epinephrine or cortisol treatment also appear to selectively enhance memory for emotionally arousing material.12–15

Blah blah .adrenal stress hormones influence memory consolidation of emotional experiences via interactions with arousal-induced activation of noradrenergic mechanisms within the amygdala.

I suppose unless your uni work is emotionally arousing it's probably not going to have any negative effect

Posted from TSR Mobile