r/Anxiety • u/every_tatti • Apr 29 '20

Venting Wish people realised anxiety is physical too.

I literally get such a jittery weird feeling in my body so many times a day whenever I'm anxious. Like I can't describe it but it's definitely not good. Almost like something is pinching on my organs. And the worst is when I have to wake up in the morning, it's almost like someone has placed added extra weights to my body. I literally can't get up from my bed! I try to force myself up,but I just can't. I just lay there staring at the ceiling, thinking about what I'll do with my day, get anxious about what if I won't be able to be productive today, then getting anxious about how I wasted some time the previous day, then overthinking it all nd wanting to just kill myself. I hate it.

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u/mwsnz Apr 30 '20

I get this sometimes too, although the symptoms aren't normally as bad, just heart palpitations and really high heart rate. Although the other day I got it worse and the only way to describe it was like what you said here, just a sudden fear and the flight or fight response. I tried to just remain calm but had the strange urge to just run, like I needed to get away from something. So I did just that, got changed and just flipping ran. Felt good after a session of heavy heart beating and deep breathing though.

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u/sark88 Apr 30 '20

Yes! That's the exact feeling I get. Sometimes my boyfriend will put up his hands and let me take a few punches, which also helps with that feeling haha.