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How Can I stop having Anxiety attacks?

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I have suffered from social anxiety for about 2 years now and im only 16 and it controls my whole life. I cannot go out on my own, I can't even walk down the street without having an anxiety attack. Im constantly thinking that people are judging me and talking behind my back, when there proberly not its all in my head. Its even worse if im sitting around a table : for example if im in the pub with my boyfriend and his mates that I don't know - I start shaking, my heart thuds, my palms are sweaty and sometimes I can't even have eye contact with people. If they talk directly to me I have to act really shy. Im not like this around the people I know. It only happens around new people. I never did my GCSE's at school because last time I did an exam I had an attack. So my brain tells me not to do certain things because it triggers it off, so I just aviod things like that at all times. But the more I stay in and finally have the courage to go out it gets worse. My family and friends think im making it up, they call me lazy a liar - because I havnt got a job because of this. Its got so bad that because I've left school im not even in college so my parents don't get any money for me. Im basically spongeing off them, and I don't blame them for being angry but I've been too the doctors on many occasions but nothing seems to help. Its like my brain tells me not to do something like go out with friends but my body wants me to do it. Before I used to be the life and soul of the party but now I just shut my self in my room where I can act 'Normal' and be 'myself'. Its like when I meet new people I try and make the effort to talk to them, because I think hang on a minute there actually not that bad. But my brain tells me - no stay in your going to have another attack. At the moment I am on some sort of medication - Beta Blockers , but im not sure whether these work at the moment seeing as I only got them from a pharmacy yesterday! I was wondering has anyone else had anxiety and been on beta blockers? and where they affective?