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I'm really struggling with anxiety. I ended up having a panic attack. I can't sleep. Intrusive thoughts whirling in my head. I feel like a mess up as a mother. I wonder why I'm not normal

Please keep me in your prayers until I'm able to get help I guess.

I feel hopeless.
 

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I can't sleep. Intrusive thoughts whirling in my head.

pleaseread point 4 from 25 tips for successfully treating your OCD, yes you don't have OCD, but the advice to just aacknowledge intrusive thoughts is valid for everyone.
Do discuss it with your therapist.
 
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I'm really struggling with anxiety. I ended up having a panic attack. I can't sleep. Intrusive thoughts whirling in my head. I feel like a mess up as a mother. I wonder why I'm not normal

Please keep me in your prayers until I'm able to get help I guess.

I feel hopeless.

When I was young I had lol colorful dreams you might say. So I talked to a grandmother that prayed 4 hours a day had so much power of God. She and her husband ran a bible study. She told me to read Psa 4 every night. So I started to and what was so strange yet cool was when I had those colorful dreams so to speak.. all the bad sex stuff was blurred out nothing else was just those. Then it stopped never had them since. I still read Psa 4 every night.

Its faith believing if God said it He will do it. In the NT its written if we know He hears us then we know we have the petitions/prayers we asked for. Now in Psa 4 he starts hear me when I call unto you or lord....then later read what he says "the Lord will hear when I call unto him". The lord WILL hear.. he knew the lord heard him. We today wonder doubt yet we need to KNOW because we are HIS He always hears us.

So read Psa 4 its when you get to the last part "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety". There ya go...praise Him thank Him.
 
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I'm really struggling with anxiety. I ended up having a panic attack. I can't sleep. Intrusive thoughts whirling in my head. I feel like a mess up as a mother. I wonder why I'm not normal

Please keep me in your prayers until I'm able to get help I guess.

I feel hopeless.

I am suffering from very severe anxiety, as well. It has severely tested my faith. I just want to feel normal, but most days I'm scared. I have prayed fervently for several months. I am so mentally exhausted. I'm doing everything I can to please the Lord, but I feel that I am barely hanging on. This has been going on for about three months. I want to feel safe and secure in the Lord, but I don't. However, I have learned that he will not abandon us. He is closer to us when we are beaten down than any other time. It's easy to feel that the Lord is displeased with us when we suffer anxiety or depression, but that is not true. Just know that you aren't alone. There are many of us suffering along with you. We are all family. We hurt together. Best of all, Jesus hurts with us. We might not feel it all the time, but he is with us. Look at the life of Jesus. He was persecuted, despised, and abandoned by his closest friends. In the end, he wondered if God had forsaken him. Does that sound like you? Do you feel alone and abandoned? Jesus went through the same thing. He did it so that he could understand and empathize with us. Take it one day at a time. It might feel like it will never end, but it will. But don't hurry. Jesus said not to worry about tomorrow, as today has enough problems. You do the same. Take it one day at a time.
 
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