Anxiety and getting sick?

flyawayx2
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:56:01 +0000

I’m sorry you - and your S - are going through this. One of my kids and I have both dealt with anxiety throughout the years and it feels debilitating when you’re in the thick of it. The main things that have helped us:

Finding a good therapist who can help teach coping strategies. Having a few techniques or tools to use can help break up or prevent the anxiety from taking over. My S also liked having this person to talk to each week that wasn’t mom or dad who could help him work through his thoughts and feelings.

Meds. This took a little trial and error and a few different psychiatrists, but we were able to find a therapeutic dose of one med where S felt like himself again enough to practice the grounding and mindset techniques he learned in therapy.

Seeing a functional medicine doctor. This was recommended by his therapist actually and was incredibly helpful. He did some testing and made some recommendations that helped the psychiatrist finally find the right med. He also recommended some supplements that helped balance some other levels that were throwing things off and contributing to his anxiety.

In regards to the morning nausea, for me that had to do with increased cortisol and adrenaline in the morning. It would hit me like a wave before I was even fully awake and felt awful. What helped in the moment was breathing exercises (look up box breathing for example) and getting up and moving. Usually within 20-30 minutes most of the adrenaline had burned off and it was more manageable.