Online Dating Anxiety

Many people know about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD from hearing of how it affects troops returning from combat, particularly if those soldiers happen to be Americans returning from Iraq. It may be understood partly as a high and constant experience of anxiety stress stemming from a traumatic experience. However, on top of the anxiety stress, there are also other symptoms that make this disorder particularly difficult to live with.

• Sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder often display common anxiety stress symptoms such as dilated pupils, hyperventilation, etc. As a result, the person may become very exhausted, and may even be unable to eat or sleep properly. PTSD sufferers often re-live their traumatic experience(s) with horrifying vividness. They might have extremely detailed nightmares, or might have sudden flashbacks while awake. The flashbacks may or may not have an obvious trigger (usually being a stimulus intimately connected with the experience, at least in the sufferer’s mind).

• If you are dating someone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, do not be dismissive of their symptoms of anxiety and stress, or try to tell them it is “only in their mind.” Sufferers have often gone through some terrible fear and suffering, even if they may not have been physically harmed, or only mildly so. Making little of their anxiety stress can come off as very insensitive. Rather, be reassuring, and convince them to get help. The latter is very important, as many sufferers are too proud to get help, or are convinced that therapy will only bring past traumas closer to the surface. If you have PTSD yourself, dating might seem intimidating. You may want to go through a little preliminary therapy—baby steps towards recovery—first.

• People with PTSD can try many different options to treat their anxiety stress and other issues stemming from the disorder. Medication and therapy are common choices. However, support groups (both online and face-to-face) are also popular and often effective.

Anxiety depression takes a toll on you, your family, friends and co-workers. Once anxiety depression hits, it can be very difficult to overcome. Having someone special in your life to support you through your depression is important. If your anxiety depression is so bad that you do not even want to go out, you may want to stay home and try your luck with online dating.

Curing Anxiety Depression

There are many reasons for the phenomenal growth of online dating sites and the number of people, men and women of all ages, races and religions who use them as their primary source for meeting people and looking for “the one”. If you are suffering from anxiety depression, online dating can offer you the relief you need.

• You can be anonymous. You will never be required to give your real name, address, email address, phone number or place of employment to another online user. You, of course, may do so but only at your own discretion and only when you feel completely safe. You are not required to post a picture of yourself. Posting a picture, however, will get more responses to your profile. So you can surf through the other members on the dating site you have joined with complete anonymity.

• You have so many more choices online that you do in your brick and mortar world. Before the world of online dating came of age, the choice of friends and even of lifetime partners was limited to those we came in contact with through college or work. No more…the world is your oyster. You can go through hundreds…even thousands of profiles to find the right man for you.

• The “safety factor” is the biggest reason of all. An online dating service will never reveal your personal information. You get to choose who has that information and when they have it.

The early signs of anxiety depression

The reason for depression may be due to genetics or your social background. It can cause emotional pain, make you less productive and affect your social life. Depression changes how you think and feel and it does not go away. There are many fears associated with anxiety depression.

1. Fear of going crazy
2. Fear of losing control
3. Fear of passing out
4. Fear of being overwhelmed
5. Fear of being in public
6. Fear of small spaces
7. Fear of what others think about you
8. Fear of making a mistake
9. Fear of impending doom