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janine · 01-02-2008, 06:55 PM

I've never had to deal with anxiety, I've never seen anyone before who had such issues but I'm thinking my son has it severe. I've looked up the symtoms and have found he has alot of them. He's 17 now... He's woke up in the middle of the night once about 6-8 months ago and had some kind of panic attack... pending doom, the world was coming to an end or some catastrophic bomb or something. He tried to crawl out his window to go tell his girlfriend to get to safety. He woke up my husband and demanded the computers be unplugged. He went outside with my husband to locate the cat after he opened his window to climb out and heard a train in the distance... Lost it! saying, "that's it!, it's coming!". My husband and I were at a loss for words. What in the world? He's been able to keep his anxiety in check by not drinking the gin-sing drinks and power drinks and has gone running and walking to help. But still he has times when he's high strung and seems to be uncontained. Just as I am thinking everything will be fine and he's got in under some kind of control something happens.

Today, he went to work with a neighbor in landscaping. moving rocks from one yard to another, using wheel barows and shovel. he left at 8:30 this morning and arrived home at 3:30. He seemed happy and feeling good. Good enough to take a shower... fix his hair and head out the house to take the lights down off the house. He was talking a bit fast and seemed very happy so I didn't read anything into it. When he came back inside he went to the computer and spent about an hour typing a story. At about 5:00 he came out of the room paniced.. saying he had to go ride his bike.. "I can't talk about it, I just got to go!".. So, I thought he must be anxious and needs to get it out. so, I said, "ok, supper will be ready in 30 min." he said, "it won't take that long... I'll be back by then". about 30 min. later I get a call from the police. Come to find out he ended up at a strangers house, knocking on there door. He told the woman who answered the door, "Hi, my name is Brian. I had a feeling that there is a 12 year old girl that is in trouble in your home." The lady said, "No, there is no children here in my home". Brian went on to say, "I'm not on drugs, I'm not high, I am concerned... I have a feeling, I.. I heard a 12 year old girl screaming in the wind". The lady was concerned that Brian was not ok. She called the police because she thought Brian was not of right mind. So the officer tells me and dh the story. Brian just had a feeling something was wrong at that house. Strange... So his anxiety has escalated to the point that it is affecting strangers now.

I know this is not a gbp issue, at least I don't think it is. He has expressed his concernes about my eating and not eating some things. He has said last week, "Don't eat that!", "Don't drink that!" I tried to talk to him yesterday about it. I explained that I am awaire of what I can and can't eat and I am awaire of what could potentially cause me to be ill. I asked him to talk to me about it so I can explain. He said, "what do you want me to say, mom" "you want me to say I'm worried about you?" "why do you want me to say it?" I told him he didn't have to say it. just by telling me not to eat or drink he has said it. I think my surgery may be contributing to his anxiety issues...

Does anyone deal with anxiety issues on this board? How do people get it in control? How can I help him?... I'm going to find him a theropist tomorrow for sure, this has gone on long enough and it's worrying me.