Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

This page covers my experience with generalized anxiety disorder symptoms, tips I learned in controlling anxiety and what I did to calm my worst anxiety symptoms.

I never took any anti anxiety meds to cope with my escalating symptoms of anxiety. I actually found that the best fast acting anxiety relief came when I was officially diagnosed in February 2003.

It was a relief to learn that what I was experiencing wasn’t normal, and that the feeling I had been experiencing actually had a proper, medical name. I’d previously called it “The Fear”.

In the list below, I will discuss my generalized anxiety disorder symptoms as well as what I did to overcome them:

- A deep, foreboding sense of fear that followed me everywhere I went: Comes from the root chakra (basic needs) and physical aura layer (layer closest to the skin). The main part of the problem was that I was worrying over nothing – literally, nothing! I would worry that I had nothing to worry about. When I got diagnosed, I realized that this feeling was one of the main generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. Knowing this gave me a great deal of comfort.

- Becoming stuck on thinking one thing, over and over – otherwise known as “Obsession” : Relates to the brow chakra and interferes with intuition. I learned to stop my train of thought when it was becoming negative. That simple process, interrupting the thought pattern, took me one step closer to becoming rid of the obsession. I didn’t feel annoyed when I stopped the thought pattern, I simply stopped it. 9 times out of 10 the negative thought pattern would return, but I just patiently interrupted the thought pattern again. Then, the obsession would return again, but this time it wasn’t as strong. The thought pattern became easier to interrupt. Slowly, slowly, the obsession faded away, and I won.

- Fatigue – I was 22 years old, and I felt like an old lady. My body looked fine, but I had such muscular aches and every time I stopped, I wanted to fall asleep. Brow chakra, intuition. I overcame this one very simply, by drinking more water to cleanse my energy and keep myself hydrated.

- Irritability – Being out of sorts with the universe. I wanted to move at a much faster pace. Solar Plexus chakra. Self esteem. I said the following affirmation: “I am healthy, wealthy and wise. I attract and project positive energy”

- Disturbed sleep – I was waking up in the night, processing all sorts of energy. In fact, I was being contacted by spirits of people who had recently died, and were trying to find their way to heaven. But before I knew what was going on, I was having all sorts of dreams of being lost and unable to find my way. I overcame this by meditating, and through meditation I realized that spirits were finding me because I was flashing like a beacon to them in the darkness. So I did two things – one, as I was going off to sleep I imagined myself surrounded by white light and a sign that said “closed” over my brow chakra. Then, once a week when I had time, I would settle myself for meditation and see myself inside a massive lecture hall, where all the lost souls would gather and I would lead them through the steps of looking around themselves for light and going towards it.

Being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder was just the beginning of my journey – once I felt comfortable that I could identify my symptoms, I learned that I could control my feelings and energy.

Time is the biggest healer. It took at least 2 years, and quite a number of setbacks, before I was relieved from my generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. Even now, there are days when I will catch myself in an old pattern, and I need to focus to bring myself out of it again.

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