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I Have Anxiety

I've been having panic attacks about doing my taxes (due April 30th here in Canada). I shouldn't be worried about this, my income last year was less than the year before so I should have less taxes to pay (I'm self employed). All I have to do is get the numbers (income, expenses, etc) and take it to an accountant and they'll figure it out. But just the thought of logging to my bank account and crunching all those numbers, adding the income/expenses for every month, is giving me a panic attack (I'm hyperventilating right now just thinking about it). Forms, financial and government stuff give me anxiety (perhaps is part of my social anxiety, fear of being judged -- and screwed up -- by some anonymous, random authority). I have some anxiety pills that my doctor prescribed me early last year "in case my anxiety got really bad", Lorazepam, but he warned these can be addictive and I should be careful with them. So I've never taken them to this day. I'm thinking I perhaps should take them now, but the very thought that they might make things worse (I may end addicted, and besides the side effects include getting "sleepy" so I may end up unable to function, worse than now) is in itself making me anxious. I have no idea what to do other than wait for the anxiety to magically "end".
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Sienna3241-45, F
Can you get a tax consultant to do it for you. I'm hopeless at taxes and get it done.
contrails56-60, M
@Sienna32 Yes that's what I did... Even so, not knowing what the laws are etc., I didn't had any idea what was going to happen... Last year I was almost broke and had to pay thousands of dollars for the previous year income (which hadn't been too bad at the beginning). Long story short, I did my taxes (well a consultant made if for me after I gathered all the numbers... that was the most stressful part for me... to be sure I had all relevant numbers correct) and in the end I even got some money back (because last year was really bad financially for me, in no small measure because I had to pay thousands of dollars in taxes...).

I couldn't believe how well and smooth it went this year (compared to last year), I was so happy and relieved I almost had tears in my eyes... So glad this is over, feels like if I had had a cancer operation and it all went well...
:)