Mysterious Pain

• by Adeline
• 3 years ago

Wow, this poem is one of the greatest things I have heard. Sometimes I feel like the darkness swallows me at night. I feel hopeless. It sounds weird, but I try to stay up as late as I can just to not have to deal with my thoughts at night. I love this writer, and thank you so much for your help. I hope someday the little voice in my head will go away reminding what I did night and day.

• by Izzy
• 5 years ago

I know what it's like to live with GAD. It's like living with constant anxiety about the easiest things, like walking your dog, taking tests, or doing homework. It is living, knowing that a panic attack could happen at any time. You feel like no one understands your problems.

• by Brenda Wynant
• 6 years ago

No one understands what I am suffering from. My new doctor has decided I am taking a far too dangerous drug, so he is weaning me off. I must suffer again for the length of this weaning process and be put on something different for my anxiety. I cry every day. I sometimes fall to the floor in agony of mind. You see, I was a meth addict for 20 years. When God delivered me, I was left with a seizure disorder and severe anxiety. Now I live with it every day. I try to carry on a conversation when suddenly I begin to cry. The woman who wrote this poem, it was as if she knew my own pain, she wrote it so well. I pray for others who suffer from anxiety disorder. God bless them all. I care for my disabled daughter at the same time, which brings me joy. I help others in ways to get out of my own miserable box. It brings me joy. Reading this poem brought me both pain and joy. "SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!" I cried out. Perhaps today I will have some peace of mind. I don't know. Only the anxiety knows.

• by Christy
• 6 years ago

This poem pretty much touched on every aspect of my life for the past 15 years. It's not anything you can explain or make someone understand unless they have been through it or continue to live with it on a daily basis. I don't know why it chose me or how long it plans to stay, but I pray every day for it to go away. Some days are good and some very bad, and I used to search for people who suffered from this and decided they didn't exist. I went from a fearless person, scared of nothing, to someone who often times can't leave the house without shaking and sweating and needing something to hold onto until the dizziness passes. I've left baskets full of groceries in the store because that feeling of needing to get out of there was coming my way. I haven't driven on the interstate for years and still can't cross bridges. I've had to beg people for rides to work, never telling them the truth why because they will think I'm a freak. Crying helps, but I'd rather it just go away.

• by Khira Skye Bradey
• 7 years ago

That poem was beautiful and I've lived through depression and anxiety for nearly 14 years. The triggers were bullying, family passing away. Every time I talk about it people always seems to think that I'm either lying or I'm laughing. I think that this poem is really me because I think she's saying that she has nowhere to go.

• by Samantha K
• 8 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing this poem. I can relate to every word. I've had severe anxiety for eight years and it's the worst thing in the world. Everything scares me: sleepovers, amusement parks, animals, the weather, ads on TV, going to sleep at night, being on the freeway, and so many other things that I can't even remember all of them at the moment. It's limiting, embarrassing, painful and exhausting. Sometimes the fear is so bad it's hard to just get out of bed in the morning. I hope your anxiety is more manageable than mine but if it's not, I know what you're going through and I know how much pain and suffering it can cause.

• by Savannah Georgia
• 9 years ago

It started halfway through 7th grade with depression and anxiety too. I always fear that I am dying. Stomach ache? I'm dying. Headache- I have a brain tumor. And so on. I get the feeling of detachment at times, and others I shake as if I was in Antarctica! ( sorry if it's not spelled right) Idk what I have right now, I'm a Freshman and 15 . But I can have a small attack or a big one just about anywhere and anytime. Then I become so drained because of the awful worrying periods.

• by Lari
• 10 years ago

I started suffering from anxiety halfway through seventh grade. It was scary and awful and the poem pretty much sums it up. I was so used to being the life of the party, the optimist, and I was so scared people would find out. Finally it got bad enough that my parents noticed, and they told me that I needed counselling. And you know what? It was scary, but it helped.

• by Taylor Conway, SC
• 10 years ago

I have anxiety since I was little and still to this day I still live with it and this poems tell you what you feel and how it have you thinking and what can you do to stop.

• by Ayaka432, KS
• 10 years ago

This is wonderfully put. Along with the others here who have commented, I too have Anxiety Disorder. In my freshman year of high school, I had to leave school because I had a severe anxiety attack for the first time. I couldn't return to school for two weeks because my anxiety was out of control. My parents then went to seek help for me. I was then told that I had Social Anxiety, and Anxiety disorder. But this poem described exactly what an anxiety attack is like for me.... uh, sorry for ranting ^_^;;; .... but... ya... that is just my opinion.....

• by Emma, N.C.
• 10 years ago

I feel you. I have the same but mine's worse. I have this ''mysterious pain'' It comes and goes..up to the point where I can't breathe...

• by William, Shallotte NC
• 10 years ago

I have been suffering from several different types of anxieties almost my entire life. from being verbally and physically abused most of my life. I have been seeing a therapist for many years and nothing seems to work. I have GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), social phobia, PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and a panic disorder, I live everyday with the fear of death, of a loved one dying, people judging me, afraid of confrontation. People look at it as a weakness but we who have this problem are the strong ones for dealing with this everyday and still managing to make it to the next day. I also have very bad anger problems, that being the reason I have an extreme fear of confrontation. I am deathly afraid of hurting someone and spending the rest of my life in prison. Anxiety never disappears, you can only use meds and other personal remedies as a blanket. I feel for those who have this problem. I pray to god my child doesn't have to go through this one day.

• by Stephanie Alysse
• 10 years ago

I am 15. I used to have no fear of anything now I am scared to ask a simple question. Scared of the unknown if you shoot a bad look at me I break down with anxiety I am proud to be me but I am scared of not only my own shadow but of the shadows casts by others. I don't know how to process my feelings or my memories from the past I have sympathy for others who feel this commonly unknown feeling I am very sorry.

• by Abigail, Georgia
• 11 years ago

I have the same problem but mine is so bad that I have went brain dead because I could not handle all the stress around me I spent seven days in the hospital because of that and I'm only 14 years old and I have heart problems too that we can't control yet. So I'll pray for you. :)