I’ve been having anxiety and panic attacks for a couple weeks now and go from having regular things like Fast heart beat to things like jaw pain and burning on the back of my neck. Wondering what unique symptoms people get when they have anxiety/panic attacks.

I’m really feeling some panic set in and I think a nice show will help me. I’m very sad I lost Netflix and many of my comfort shows are now gone. I only have MLP atm and I will probably get into what shows I can that gets commented :)

Like I'm NEVER 100% well.

Anxiety, derealization, brain fog, constant dizziness, gut issues.. just to name a few.

My psychologist was telling me yesterday how it's all health anxiety related and I'm like ok... that information doesn't help me at all because how do I get better then?

I'm so sick of feeling sick.

I've been trying multuple, different antidepressants (Mirtazapine, Lexapro, and Prozac) for anxiety and they're making me less and less resilient in stressful situations. It's really disheartening to see each medication worsening my anxiety symptoms more and more. I had a panic attack yesterday night that I'm still recovering from. This was one of the worse ones.

I was under the impression that antidepressants were safe drugs because doctors prescribe them so easily. I have requested benzos before and was denied. Medical providers give antidepressants out like candy but treat benzos like poison. The affects of antidepressants have been horrible. I honestly do not know if I can survive another round of them. I feel like at this point, I'm in desperate need of a medication to alleviate my panic attacks. I feel like benzos can't be more horrible than antidepressants that are giving me more severe panic attacks.

I’m only anxious about airport security tsa rules and all of that. I don’t plan on doing or bringing anything illegal but I’m afraid that everything that could go wrong is going to go wrong. I love the airport and the plane ride but the security check freaks me out.

Sorry if I don't respond to your comment I will read them all they are very helpful. I feel a lot better after reading these so thank you :D

My SA, causes me debilitating symptoms; migraines, exhaustion, hyperventilating, dizziness, panic, terror, fear of death. I'm never just a little nervous socially. I basically want to sprint away from crowds. I'm always murmuring under my breath, "I've got to get the hell outta here". The best tool to date, is simply not making eye contact, I can easily pretend that these are just bodies, like posts that I need to navigate around. If I allowed myself to realize that , there are that many people in the world, I think I would have a heart attack.

I am a sufferer of anxiety since childhood and am now 35 (f). I feel like in times of heightened anxiety over things I will turn to Reddit and search different things that I may be worried about and will go down a complete doomscrolling rabbit hole where I will find stories of horrible traumatic events and other health problems that people went through and I will sit there and apply it to my own life like what if this happens to me or my family? Like I will spend hours doomscrolling and I know it’s not healthy nor productive but then it just makes me realize how terrible the world is and how I feel like nothing is safe and maybe I’ll never feel comfortable again. It just makes me realize how anything can happen to anyone at any time and I am having a hard time lately with those realizations especially as I get older and my children too. I feel like Reddit makes me know “too much” and while I don’t want to be totally ignorant I don’t know why I expose myself to a million different scenarios. This has been an ongoing problem that comes and goes, it got really bad during COVID when true “doomscrolling” became a thing and now it’s just moved on to other aspects. Just seeing if anyone else feels this way or if I’m just a glutton for punishment by doing this to myself.

I literally can’t stop and it’s really not good for me

The past 2 weeks I have been having a lot of bowel changes it started with urgent diarrhea at 2 am after a day of diarrhea I started getting worse which prompted me to google my symptoms. Due to the color of my bowels(yellowish) I seen where it could possibly be pancreatic cancer. This sent me into a state of panic I then schedule Telehealth visit. The doctor told me it sound like Acute Gastrenteritis. This made me feel better but I couldn’t get the scary diagnosis out of my head. Another day go by and I can’t have a movement at all even though it felt like I had to go by this point I have lots of gas pains and movements despite me not eating much food the previous day. So now I google that and I see Colon cancer at this point I’m crying scared tryna figure out WTF is going on with my stomach. The days following I had no appetite, constantly worrying, crying , feeling dizzy and stomach problems , Waking up having panic attacks and feeling sleepy all day which made me more worried. I finally get a hold of myself and calm down a little bit and force myself to eat something at least once daily. On yesterday I finally had an actual appetite and felt less anxious but still a bit nervousness and dizzy spells with the stomach discomfort continuing. Then I use the restroom and feel constipated and I have a ribbon like stools follow by very loose stool and I looked it up and panicked all over again I am so scared right now that I may have a serious condition and I’m also afraid to talk to my doctor I just don’t want any bad news. Have anyone else experienced anything similar ? Some one please help

Hi all.

Just a quick history- I’ve had health anxiety/ OCD for 12 years now. I’ve died a thousand times in my mind. Yet each time is so real.

This week my leg went numb and had been off and on going numb and heavy on the same side. Que panic. I’ve diagnosed myself with MS, ALS, a brain tumor, lupus and so much more. I have sensations all over my body, headache and nausea and insane twitching. I just want to sleep all day to avoid it all.

I have 2 kids I need to be here for. Each day I feel something else and I’m panicking up to 5x a day. I’m waking up panicked. Part of me wants to run to the ER and get it over with. I have seen my primary care doctor who is having me “watch and wait”. I have a 2 week trip coming up with my family this week and I want to be present! I don’t want to ruin it with these sickening panic attacks, physical sensations, paralyzing fears.

Now I have a on and off numb left leg from knee down, insane twitching, headaches, shaking and trembling, and nausea. I’m convinced something is fatally wrong. I’m depressed,ashamed and angry. My loved ones are exhausted by me. I don’t know how to keep going.

Yeah it's almost 10pm on July 4th where i am rn. I live in an unsafe neighborhood. It sounds like the purge outside my front door and I'm terrified. :)

So I’m not sure where all this started. But long story short I’ve smoked weed for 10 years from 20-30. First couple of years everything was fine but as I started getting close to my 30s I would get really bad short brief panic like feel attacks for seconds then they will go away. That’s been happening for 2-3 years until last year. So my brother passed last year and it really took a toll on me, then 2 months after his passing I had a horrible panic attack one day where I was crippled, locked my self into the bathroom and took my clothes off because my heart was beating so fast and my left arm was crazy numb and I felt like I was dying. I called 911 the ambulance came and my panic slowly started going away as they confirmed I had my first panic attack. That day is the day my life forever changed. After then the following months were rough, I couldn’t drive anywhere (had crippling anxiety) couldn’t go anywhere without Xanax in my pockets and quality of life declined. Fast forward to now I’m doing much better I’ve been going on long drives again slowly enjoying life but I’m super scared to travel far from my house without it happening again. I couldn’t believe that happened to me when I never felt that way before in my life what could it be? Is it my cannabis use , my brother dying? Me stressing about work? I’m also super scared to get on an airplane now. Something I used to love doing but super frightened to get on a plane now, I’m dying to go on vacation I haven’t gone anywhere in 10 years. But when I think of getting on a plane now my anxiety goes sky high. I don’t know what to do….

Long story short (ish) I had a massive mental break that ended up with me in the ER about 5 years ago. Ever since, all of my anxiety has manifested with driving. The last time I was on the highway was in 2020. It’s slowly devolved to where I can only drive to work and back which is about 5 minutes on side streets. I’m in therapy and have had some breakthroughs on how it may be tied to OCD compulsions on worrying I may lose control and hurt myself or someone else and also the fact that I lost my dad suddenly in a plane crash. I see a lot of people taking about driving anxiety here and am wondering truly if there’s anything that really works. I’ve tried all the meds and they are not a good fit for me. I never had this issue before and used to love being on the road and feeling free and would do anything to get back to that place. Any advice and support is welcome. Thanks for reading :)

I'm struggling with a weird, bad feeling that usually happens where I lay down to sleep and I wake up wide awake after 1 hour.

I didn't have a nightmare and my body is calm (my heart beats normal and I don't sweat) but in brain and in my throat a weird fear starts building up. It's like "something is wrong" but I can't pinpoint what is wrong because my body is calm and my room is safe. So I lay there with a relaxed body on the surface but my mind starts feeling so uncomfortable... that feeling is worse than depression or adrenaline to me. It's bad and doesn't seem to have a source.

When I take a benzo it goes away or when I endure for 15-30 minutes it slowly goes away. I can't call this panic attack but what exactly is this? Anyone has an idea?

I feel weird posting this given it may be a well-known topic, but I’ll just go ahead. As a child, I had severe social anxiety, and after having an accident as a toddler in kindergarten, I developed a fear of wetting myself which was bad considering my already anxious self. My family took me to all sorts of doctors and ended up finding that its just a psychological thing. As I slowly got over my social anxiety through exposure, this constant urge to pee was decreasing until it disappeared at around 10 years old.

Now I’m 18, and I don’t really struggle with social anxiety anymore, but I’ve been really stressed. Suddenly this week, it started happening all over again. Everytime I go out, even for 10 minutes, I feel the urge to pee, and I can’t ignore it because somehow when I go, I actually do end up using the bathroom for a while, but I’m so confused how my bladder filled up that fast. I checked, and there’s no medical reason for me to feel this way, my bladder is fine. I don’t know what triggered this, I’ve been stressed this entire year and I was fine.

Maybe this has something to do with it? I had a nerve-wrecking exam in May, but I was running out of time and I really needed to use the bathroom, so I just forced myself to wait until I was done because the bathroom was far and I would lose a lot of time. Maybe that triggered some sort of delayed reaction that I didn’t get until now? I was totally okay! It’s just suddenly happening again. I know it’s an anxiety thing because it doesn’t happen in a normal place with bathrooms (home, restaurant, class) and I can go for hours even with a lot of fluids. But once I’m in a place without it (highway, long road), I suddenly really need it and the feeling won’t go. It would be fine if I was alone, I could just stop some place, but with my family, I know it irritates them if I always ask. It’s so annoying, and it makes me feel powerless, like I’m a toddler all over again.

Today I decided to finally take my 1.5 year old son to “Preschool Playtime” at a nearby water park. Despite scouring the website, Facebook, reviews, even calling for info, I still didn’t have answers to my questions, but decided to push through and go despite a little anxiety about not knowing everything I wanted to know.

We arrive and pay admission; I assumed it was $4/person but it was only $4 for my son, my husband and I were free since “there’s not much you guys can do anyway” according to the kid who took our payment haha! That was a nice surprise.

Anyway, we enjoy the splash pad for a bit. I wasn’t sure if only the splash pad would be available for use, or if the play area in the zero-entry part of the main pool would be open as well. There were kids and parents playing over there, including ones who had started at the splash pad like us. After a while, we walked over there and used the slides and waded a bit. Multiple life guards and water park employees saw us, made eye contact, and didn’t say anything, so I figured we were fine.

Wrong. After a group of lifeguards and staff gathered nearby, one walked over to my husband and I and politely told us that Preschool Playtime was restricted to the splash pad only. We said sorry about that, we weren’t aware, and walked back to the splash pad. She didn’t ask anyone else in the area to leave - just us.

My assumption is that the other people in that area at that time were waiting for their swim lessons to start, but I didn’t know swim lessons took place in that part of the pool, I thought they were only in the deep end. I also assume no one else who’d come for Preschool Playtime had been asked to leave that area because they weren’t in the way or didn’t stay long enough to warrant being asked to leave.

Normally, I’d be so embarrassed. I was embarrassed, but also held my composure. Typically a situation like this would make my face hot and red, choke me up/make me cry, and make me want to leave (but I wouldn’t, because I wouldn’t want anyone to think I was mad). Finally, instead of my brain automatically jumping to “She thinks you’re an idiot, good job you embarrassed yourself in front of all of these people, this is why you shouldn’t even have a kid because you’re too dumb to even take your kid to the pool!” My brain just…stayed calm. We all make mistakes, they politely told me what I needed to know, and we all moved on, no harm, no foul.

I do wish they’d put up a sign or make it more clear what “preschool playtime” entails on their website. It wouldn’t be hard to put up a dry erase sign and write “This pool for swim lessons only” and it would save the employees a lot of hassle. We all know not everyone would have reacted the way my husband and I did.

This is both for me to reflect on and comfort for anyone else thinking about starting. I’m 25m relatively athletic and I did NOT want to do antidepressants, my parents convinced me. I’m going to take mine at night

Day 1: I went to bed around 11 pm. Was wide awake at 3:30, couldn’t go back to sleep until 6 am. The first morning-day my depression has gotten better but I’m incredibly light headed, thirsty, and I just feel foggy. My appetite is basically non existent

Hey guys! Just looking for some support. Theres mornings i wake up with anxiety. Heart rate up, shaky. I try to make myself breakfast but cant get myself to eat it .

Is there any advice on how to fight through these patches?

Side note: im not diabetic but if i dont eat enough my sugar starts dropping !

How do you overcome a cycle like this? I never really thought I had bad anxiety but recently I can never sleep well because when I go to bed, I’m too worried about not getting my 8 hours, having a headache and brain fog the next day, and eventually dying of dementia down the road. What can I do to stop this? It’s like I never feel safe going to sleep and it’s a constant reaffirming cycle

I slept well and even woke up with pleasant thoughts and was just kind of looking forward to and planning out my day. I had my coffee, took my meds and did a few chores.

I was starting to feel just a little "off" and kind of wierd in my head as I grabbed a bag of trash and proceeded to take it outside.

As i walked outside toward the trash can, then, the mailbox and back toward the house again, everything started to feel really strange and surreal/unreal. The car, the trees, the sunshine, the driveway, the porch, the house, other neighbor's houses...it was almost as if I had died and ended up on some alien planet and was just floating around there.

I felt wierd and really foggy-headed and I could feel my anxiety level climbing. I felt strangely apart from and detatched from everything around me and by the time I got back inside, I was pretty freaked out.

What was that all about?. Anyone else ever experience anything like this?. Thank you for reading!.

I’m so tired of feeling this way everyday its constant anxiety and dread all over again. Anxiety has taken so much from me i couldn’t even go around my family that I really cared about and it will never be the same again. I pushed everything around me away for no reason all this shame and hiding its all delusions in my head. I isolated myself from everyone and I feel like I ruined my life. I dont know how to move on

If I magically could know that any of the future scenarios I catatrophize about 100% won't happen/be as bad as I think they'd be, I could actually get a lot more in life.

I was 8. one night, I suddenly began feeling as if I couldn’t breathe. I told my mum who shrugged me off and assured me I’d feel better the next day. I went to sleep, woke up, and still felt off. nothing felt physically wrong, all I can describe it as is air hunger. I just felt like I couldn’t breathe properly.

the next night, I had a meltdown, crying and crying to my mum that I couldn’t breathe. rushed to hospital. told I was anxious.

in my 8 year old old brain I was so confused. I actually didn’t believe the doctor and spent the rest of the night wondering how it wasn’t a physical problem. how a mental problem could possibly do that. what the hell anxiety was.

I learnt to cope with it in the end. at night I’d read picture books which distracted me from the anxiety long enough to fall asleep, and it honestly makes me sad to think about it now. she was so scared she’d stop breathing.

sometimes I have the same feeling, and I’m immediately able to recognise it for what it is.

years later and I’m absolutely okay, but now diagnosed with GAD. it’s been a long journey but I’ve come a long way.

when was your first encounter with anxiety?

My boyfriend and I don’t live together yet (mortgage rates, amiright?!). I have two kids and he has three, and they all get along swimmingly. We do sleepovers pretty regularly.

Today we were discussing whose house to do a weekend sleepover at this weekend and my 10yr old blurted “Our house. Theirs is too messy.” 🤦‍♀️

One of my anxiety coping mechanisms is being extremely clean and tidy. I cannot relax unless my house is perfect, and as a result I’m a minimalist who is constantly cleaning. My house is pristine- probably too much so. I’m very inflexible about it, and I guess my kids have come to expect that level of cleanliness and tidiness. Oooops. And my boyfriend’s house is FINE. Above average clean and tidy (frankly, I wouldn’t be able to date him if it were any other way because I’m such a freak about it 🤷🏼‍♀️).

Anyways, the comment really hurt my boyfriend’s feelings. He told me later that it upset him and that he didn’t want comments like that to make his kids feel bad about their home (fair). I had already told my kid that afternoon that his comment was rude and he intends to apologize, and it was a teachable moment for my kids. And while my BF said he understands “kids will be kids” and said “no apologies necessary, I’m just being insecure about my house” and assured me it’s not a big deal and said he’s over it and said he loves me and moved on with other topics of conversation…

MY BODY IS SAYING THIS IS A BIG DEAL. I feel sooooo fucking bad. I am laying here riddled with guilt. I’m thinking worst case scenarios (dude who is madly in love with me is definitely breaking up with my over this right?). I’m replaying it in my mind. Maybe it’s because we literally haven’t had a fight in the 3 yrs we’ve been together and this is the first time he has ever expressed any level of frustration (and it’s with my kid, not even with me!). I’m a hot mess, thank you ✨ anxiety ✨.

Can yall talk some sense into me? Sometimes just hearing it from others - that this is fine, I’ll be fine, he’ll be fine, we’ll be fine - really helps.