So, what treatment did u receive?

After all these years, I still don't know where to go to.

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Added on March 12, 2011, 3:41 pmMy life went downhill since then, I forgot how my high school was, my brain deleted all those painful memories.

Crap, this brings tears to my eyes.

I suspect that I have anxiety disorder too. Who are you seeing currently? Anyone else with anxiety disorder? Anyone who has successfully recovered?

Below are some recommendations I found at Cari forum, he/she was seeing both:
Psychiatrist - Dr Aw Tui Iar
Psychologist - Ms Leong Huey Mei, Hospital Pantai Indah
Please share your views and comments on them if you have previously consulted them.

Please also share any other good recommendations especially if you or someone you know have had good results with the doctor. 
I would be happy to visit both government and private clinics, as long as the doctor is good or 1 of the best, as I am quite worried with my condition and I do not know any contacts, and I am also concern with what I read on some websites that psychiatry is not very advanced in Malaysia.

Maybe its a self fulfilling prophecy? your anxiety STARTED because you left your pills at home?

Try to change to a more dont-give-a-damn lifestyle  perhaps?

Definitely go seeing a psychologist first before seeing a psychiatrist

To Insidexjokes: Its great news that the meds have finally helped u in ur battle with AD. The doses your r taking are relatively low and if it enables u to resume a decent better quality of life, do continue. But from time to time, our lives will never b totally smooth sailing and you will have stressful triggers again. Those time may cause u to push urself for more Alprazolam and that might cause a vicious cycle. My humble advice to you would be to now take some time to identify what was the cause of the triggers n stressors that may have caused ur condition in the first place. There might be a few factors involved at one given time or none at all but u should try to identify them. The road in dealing with Anxiety or Depression is a long and very hard path to walk. So never walk alone and never look back. Keep pushing on and you will find urself in ur utmost optimal quality in time.

To Liquidsny:
Personally, i wouldnt advice on self medicating especially if the meds are really working for u. Do go back to ur doctor and be adamant that u require something better. Voice ur opinions. Sometimes, its not because they dont want to hear ur pleas or request but from experience, depressed or anxious patients can sometimes be overly dependant on meds to a point where they will start hopping from meds to meds just to make themselves "feel" that they r getting a better meds. Doctors sometimes pick up on this and try to prevent them from doing so. But if ur meds really arent working for u, do discuss with ur doctor. They will help.

Hey there insidexjokes, I'm glad you are getting stronger and better now. You know what, everything in life is actually giving you only TWO options to choose. For either good or bad, day and night, happy or sad, positive or negative etc.  Given the choice, why not ignore the bad and cherish the good, watch the sunrise and start your day full of activity and choose to be happy for life is short. Remember, always look at the bright side of everything.

Everyday, think and imagine you are recovering and anxiety disorder is the past. Being past is past and it will not come back just like when a child has grown up, you cant go back to become a child once again dont you. When you start to worry, talk to yourself and say hey, anxiety is my history and there is no way I can go back unless I have time machine which is not possible.
You are now starting a new chapter in your life and are living a normal and happy life like others. In front of you, there are so much good things waiting for you to explore and enjoy. Let's celebrate life.

Cheers,
A lil advise from Zentaro 

this.

i THINK i having this issue even until now since 2 years ago(ya i know is very long). visited doctors(even traditional) for few times and they said nothing wrong with me and blood pressure and heart beat is normal. most of the doctors said could be muscle pain and traditional doctor said could be my lifestyle..tried all the medicine(painkiller) but remain the same

i asked them is it because of anxiety and they said is possible but never give much advice of this. it feels so shit and ruin my mood.
im trying to relax and not to think anything else but the pain will come for no reason.

i even follow a healthy lifestyle like eat in order and in time, exercise( gym), sleep early(11pm) and wake up early, always hang out, keep myself busy during work(my work involved talking in every minutes),etc but the pain still coming.

i planning to go for another full body checkup after CNY and hope there is nothing wrong

For those who has anxiety, do you have rashes or night sweats.  My friend said it due to stress/depression/anxiety.

thanks..looks like cannot be done within 1 day

so have u fully healed?

Info extracted & compiled from The Linden Method with minor edit for readability.

Are These Experiences Familiar to You?
» Have you sought medical attention when you have felt unwell and discovered that it was all because of high anxiety?
» Do you worry that you might 'lose your mind' or 'lose control'?
» Do you fear going out, away from people or places of safety?
» Do you ever get anxious when you feel confined or trapped somewhere like the dentist, cinemas, hairdressers or in a traffic queue?
» Do you have constant anxious thoughts?
» Do you worry about your heart and breathing because of feelings and pains you experience?
» Do driving or flying, or fear of being trapped without an immediate means of escaping, worry you?

Do you experience any Physical anxiety symptoms like these?
» panic/anxiety attacks
» racing heart
» breathlessness
» dizziness
» difficulty swallowing
» chest pains
» upset stomach/nausea
» indigestion
» lump in throat
» neck or shoulder pain
» palpitations
» fatigue
» sweating
» insomnia
» depression

Or any Psychological and Emotional anxiety symptoms such as these?
» fear of impending doom
» feeling of going mad
» anxiety about being ill
» aggressive or sexual thoughts
» agoraphobia
» derealization
» depersonalization
» fear of medical procedures
» dread of dying
» disturbing or obsessive thoughts
» feeling alone
» obsessions about food
» confusion
» depression
» disturbing dreams
» irritability
» dreaminess
» fear of leaving home
» stress
» bad moods
» frightening thoughts
» anxiety about being with others

Depression and Anxiety
Historically, anxiety and depression have been strongly linked. But are they related? That depends on the answer to one question!

The question is: What came first, the anxiety or the depression symptoms?

If your answer is that depression came before the anxiety, then chances are that you are suffering from true clinical depression. If you answer that your anxiety came before the depression, chances are you have anxiety-related depression and that's a completely different and very treatable condition. Anxiety causes mood changes which mimic true depression!

There is a big difference between anxiety caused by depression and depression caused by anxiety.

Clinical depression is a chemical mood disorder caused by changes in the chemicals in your body and brain that regulate 'mood'. This chemical imbalance causes a wide range of disturbing thoughts and anxiety symptoms and is generally treated using drugs, psychology, psychiatry and some more invasive procedures.

Anxiety is a behavioral condition caused by the habit of 'Fear Cycle' or repetitive anxious thoughts. We feel frightened, we experience symptoms, these frighten us, our anxiety goes up... and the cycle continues. Stress, phobias and anxiety can cause 'depression like' symptoms but rarely true clinical depression. Anxiety is also generally treated using drugs, psychology and psychiatry which are good for treating and managing it, but not for curing it.

Anxiety Disorder - Is it a physical or mental illness?
In short, no, anxiety disorder is neither a physical nor mental illness!

The word disorder suggests illness, please be assured that you are not ill. Anxiety is a behavioral condition regardless of how it makes you feel. Anxiety is a natural response to fear and, like other bodily systems that can falter, causing things like indigestion, palpitations or sensitive eyes for example, the anxiety response can become disrupted too. But, this isn't mental or physical illness... it's a temporary disruption which can be 'reset' very quickly indeed.

Anxiety disorder is the condition caused when stress or constant anxiety provoking situations cause the mind to become reset at a higher than normal benchmark anxiety level. Anxiety disorder is most noticeable by the vast range of unpleasant sensations and thoughts it creates... unpleasant but harmless!

Creation of an anxiety disorder can happen quickly and is usually the result of an event such as work stress, bereavement, divorce or other anxiety-provoking situations. When anxiety levels become raised due to such stressors, the mind can make a decision to re-set at this new level of anxiety; when this happens an anxiety disorder is formed. Anxiety causes a wide range of both physical and psychological symptoms, all directly caused by the anxiety reaction, all harmless, BUT all also feeling much worse than they actually are! They are the sensation of FEAR... BUT, they are NOT true fear!

Anxiety Conditions (Disorder) - what are they?
There are five main 'anxiety disorders', these are:
1. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

2. Panic disorder

3. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

4. Phobias

5. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Just because conventional medicine has decided to apply these names to specific features of anxiety conditions, doesn't mean that there aren't some 'fuzzy edges' during diagnosis. If you suffer from any of the above conditions, you have underlying high anxiety, without which none of these anxiety conditions would exist.

Often, anxiety will create a mixture of obsessions, high anxiety and panic, making it very difficult to categorize a sufferer's condition. But, it isn't important to categorize because all of these conditions are caused by elevated anxiety and require the exact same solution to remove them.

Often, anxiety disorder sufferers can be diagnosed as having 'depression' which is a common mistake made by medical practitioners world over; anxiety is a completely separate and very different condition to depression and confusing the two is akin to telling an Athlete's Foot sufferer that they have Eczema... they are both skin conditions but completely unrelated!

Anxiety Attacks - The pinnacle of high anxiety - Can they be stopped?
Anxiety attacks or panic attacks are the most extreme experience of anxiety. Anxiety attacks happen when the hormone adrenalin, which prepares the body for fighting or fleeing from a threat, stays in the blood stream long after it is required. Of course, if the anxiety is inappropriate and has been caused by a disorder and not a true threat, it isn't used up at all; this is when an anxiety attack happens.

Anxiety attacks cause the heart to speed up and for digestion to slow, breathing to speed up and many other changes, which all have the unfortunate affect of causing some unpleasant sensations and thoughts.

Can anxiety attacks be stopped - of course they can.
How?

By reversing the process that caused them in the first place!

Using a structured and simple technique, you can completely reset your anxiety levels back down to normal, something that neither drug therapy nor psychotherapy can do in isolation.

Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety symptoms are caused by the anxiety response; they are either direct alterations of bodily systems in preparation for anxiety OR side effects of those changes. For example, during high anxiety, the digestive system is slowed down to divert resources to other parts of the body, the muscles for example.

The side effect of this can be stomach cramps or discomfort. The cramps are caused by the anxiety reaction but because the sufferer has high anxiety, they can be interpreted in other ways; fears grow and the anxiety worsens. This then causes more symptoms and so on. This cycle of high anxiety can produce many sensations and thoughts that are mostly misinterpreted by the sufferer as being sinister or threatening, but they are not.

Anxiety causes changes in the body that can cause symptoms just about anywhere and some can be pretty extreme; this doesn't mean they are threatening in any way and all of them will disappear when you eliminate the underlying anxiety that causes them. FACT!

Anxiety Help / Support
Anxiety support can be unstructured and unsupportive through conventional networks and resource shortages are usually to blame. Cost can also be an issue, with specialists such as psychologists and psychiatrists charging high hourly rates and often over long periods. The biggest problem with anxiety help and support though is accessibility. Anxiety sufferers are needy and require support, advice and reassurance during their high anxiety and not just when the specialists are available. Seamless access to answers is vital with anxiety disorders.

Finding such a resource is near impossible through conventional anxiety support provisions, such as a psychology practice, medical practice or hospital.

So, what is the solution to anxiety?
The solution to anxiety is very simple indeed, because the subconscious mind has become 'reset' at a higher than normal level, the cure for anxiety is to reset your high anxiety back down to normal level using a structured anxiety elimination program.

Be Happy & No worry.

Do you still have night sweats.  Was this before of after they treated you?

coz anxiety is not a sickness, it's just you're being paranoid.

do what alanyuppie said, try to be more "not give a shit"

if you are really scare of life, join Capoeira or any martial arts, they often teachs yer how to be "cafeful" so you wont be "scare" all the time. relying on pills is way too much, man. we're not americans

p.s. i was one, and im sitll flying f*cking scares of butterflies

did had anxiety disorder, now only that left :9 -thumbs up-
let's cut it short. i got over it.

phrases like "today is just another day, tomorrow is a new day" can sometimes be extreamly helpful

This is a severe form of a panic attack, but I found myself being able to relate 

Me too! And as a result I tend to run away from everyone, and will end up just sleeping most of the time 

Has anyone tried meditation for anxiety disorders?

the only cure for anxiety is to face it.