Q. Please could u tell me if this is anxiety and what type.... I get worried extremely over people friends for instance my friends husband came to me today to see if I had seen his wife? something obviously went on. arguments with them. and I saw my friend walking down the road she ignored me then I started to worry e.g. what have I done, thinking something was going to happen but didn't know what it worried me and played on my mind all day. yet if the crunch came to the crunch I could soon stick up for myself so why am I like this????? I am married two children and when things like this happen to me I just go to bed I don't want to know my kids or hubby just want to go to sleep. I get these feelings quite a lot with other friends as well fear but don't know what of like frightened of them but I'm not deep down and I can't cope with this I am on seroxat 20mg day I have been for some years after the birth of my daughter it all started I had post natal depression with horrible thoughts of harming her which used to scare me they have gone now after 7 years she is 10 now also when I was pregnant the neighbors used to play up which scared me do u think its stemmed from that.

  A. There is a fairly strong component of obsessive thinking going on in our case. There is not enough data to tell for sure, but I would think you have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) where you predominantly ruminate. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has some overlap diagnostically, but this sounds a bit more intense. I think you had written earlier about this situation. Yes, it is an anxiety disorder, but without a full psychiatric evaluation, it is hard to tell what kind exactly. Whatever you are taking for it, it is not working, so ask your doctor about alternative medications.