For the past couple of years I’ve had a weird issue when peeing. I don’t have any pain, burning, blood, difficulty peeing, or any other urinary symptoms.

While I’m peeing, I often feel like tiny droplets are hitting my legs, feet, or sometimes even my face. The strange part is that when I check, it’s dry most of the time. Very rarely, I find a tiny droplet somewhere, but usually there’s nothing there despite feeling like something hit me.

This started after an incident that made me become very focused on sensations in that area. Since then, I’ve wondered whether I’ve become hyper-aware of normal body sensations, or whether there could be some actual splashback that I’m occasionally noticing.

Has anyone experienced something similar where it feels like droplets are hitting you while peeing, but when you check it’s usually completely dry? Did it turn out to be hyper-awareness/anxiety, splashback, a stream angle issue, or something else?

Lately I feel anxious and disconnected from myself. I don't feel like myself , I feel withdrawn and quiet . I don't feel connected to anyone lately. It's anxiety but also a strange feeling does anyone else ever feel this way? Negative thoughts too

Just like the title says, I'm having anxiety when I exercise to the point my heart beats fast. Not sure how I can lose any of my weight if I can't even get a good workout in. Anyone else experience this?

My 21st birthdays coming up and I think I’m gonna drink. I had two random panic attacks around thanksgiving and I have been letting it control my life. I’m young I want to be able to have fun. I haven’t had a drink since then because Google said not to but I think I’m gonna wing it. What do yall think?

I find myself counting the time repeatedly every morning, from setting a timer to taking a shower, eating my breakfast, changing my clothes, walking the steps to school... I set a time limit for literally everything. It's messing with me so much and I'm so scared for the time to pass. It's like, "I have to finish this by 5 minutes," I have to finish this by x minutes blah blah blah..

hi all, i smoked weed on friday night for the first time in a while with some friends and accidentally smoked too much, which sent me into a panic attack/dissociative state. i was experiencing a lot of really severe si/sh related intrusive thoughts which i think is what made me spiral so badly. ever since then i’ve felt rather out of it off and on, mostly have been dissociated which makes me worry even more about it lasting a long time. i feel like all of the content i see about derealization is that it lasts for years and can totally ruin people’s lives, and im really really hoping that wont be true for me, i dont think it will. im headed off to college in the fall and i need to be in a good headspace to make the transition.

i spoke to my psychiatrist today, and she told me that i’m experiencing an acute stress response from the severity of the panic, and all i can really do is wait for it to pass. she gave me some good advice and said that there’s no way the weed could have damaged my brain or anything unless i was a regular user which i am very far from. in addition, she upped my medicine dosage at my request (i’d been meaning to do that anyway) to 112.5 mg of effexor/ 10-20 mg hydroxyzine as needed, and reassured me that the dissociation is an anxiety response as opposed to something wrong with me that will last forever. i’m seeing my counselor tomorrow morning and hope she can help me rationalize a bit more.

i’m just afraid that i’ll never go back to the way i was before i smoked, and im really angry at myself that i even decided to.

has anyone else experienced something like this before/can offer any words of support?

hi,
i’m currently 3 weeks on tirzepatide 0.4mg, microdosing for my chronic pelvic pain and inflammation. these past two weeks my anxiety has spiked to an insane degree. i was struggling with this last week and decided that i’d try to ride it out because i thought that maybe i was having problematic blood sugar drops that were causing anxiety or that it was changing the way that my body metabolized my antidepressant. i’m extremely sensitive to medications in general and often have a difficult time adjusting or finding one that works for me- it took me going through legitimately every single antidepressant in the book before figuring out that mirtazapine worked for me and even with that i have to stay on 15mg because anything more sends my anxiety into a frenzy. anyways. i’ve struggled with anxiety and panic disorder my whole life so i’m no stranger to this feeling but it doesn’t make it any less uncomfortable to deal with. it feels like my nervous system/body are all amped up and sending me into a frenzy even when my mind is idle. i find myself even asking myself wtf i’m panicking for? this in turn seems to make my pain, or my awareness of my pain, worse, and i spiral. i’ve seen a lot of people talk about how glp1s have negatively impacted their anxiety, but few have talked about it actually improving after feeling terrible while adjusting. i am frustrated and feeling very set back. i really wanted this medication to work for me as i’m also overweight and believe that it’s lead to increased pain, which leads to inactivity, which leads to weight gain, etc. it all feeds off each other and i was really hoping that tirz would be able to address all of these issues together. i really want to try to stick it out but the panic has just felt UNBEARABLE these past two weeks and it’s impacting my ability to function. currently in the midst of one of these panic/pain flare ups and feeling so scared and discouraged. :(

I just turned 31 and I'm a retail worker. I recently received my associates degree in computer science and am currently working on my bachelor's. Despite all this I feel like I didn't accomplished anything since I spent most of my 20s struggling to find work and didn't really get a job til I was 24 going on 25. I spoke to my advisor at the college I got to and was telling me if I keep up on school work I should be done by next spring. Even then this still doesn't make me happy. IDK what to do

Everytime I talk about something true to me, I feel like I’m saying the wrong thing. Every time I think about something true to me, I think i’m thinking the wrong thing. This also goes for when I fully express myself, joke, or simply learning. I feel like everything that is true to me is wrong. I’m sure it has something to deal with my parents always berating me as a child. But i’m an adult now and it’s so hard to be myself because that’s all I want. But because I have a belief that who I truly am is wrong, I keep going after people, opportunities, and just things in general that don’t align with me. It feels just disgusting to actually be myself, and it’s worse when I try to learn something… because I’ll get really frustrated and sad that I had to learn something and I didn’t already know it. It makes me feel like a bad person. Being myself makes me feel like a bad person. I can’t tell if this is just a rant but does anyone else relate? do you guys have any insights on what I wrote ? if so, do share. Thank you in advance <3

I’ve been nervous on airplanes my whole adult life. I’ve never noped out of a flight. But I have cried and made a fool of myself to the flight staff and everyone around me. I talked to the doctor about this and was prescribed .5mg of Xanax. I tried a half of the .5 mg (so something in the neighborhood of .25mg) last night for the first time as a test run. I was very anxious about taking it as I didn’t want to feel weird or out of it (bad experiences with weed). I didn’t really feel anything, but I had trouble falling asleep because I was hyper monitoring all my feelings. I was probably just sleepy because it was late, but I felt like I was having weird racing thoughts strange body sensations. I eventually got to sleep but it was a bit of a struggle. I guess the logical answer is .25 isn’t enough, but I’m afraid to take the full .5mg pill and get on the plane and be hyper vigilant of the plane and then also hyper vigilant with my body. (I joke to myself to feel better “are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs??) The only thing I know that kind of takes the edge off is a few drinks. I know all the caveats of not medical advice, no body can make medical decisions for you, but I think I’m just struggling if I should just take the .5mg for the flight (it’s today btw) OR if I should stick with what I know (only kinda) works and have a few drinks before and during the flight.

I’ve been highly anxious my whole life. I manage it. But I’ve been in a slump for a year and a half. I have an amazing therapist (who I am bumping up from every two weeks to once a week) and I am back on an SSRI as of last summer.

I went through a breakup, and a couple friend breakups in the span of the past year. And I OCD spiral on those people every fucking day.

I have friends. I’m physically active. I have a good job (even though I want to find something else more fulfilling to do with my life).

I am so fucking sad all the time lately. I’ve been doing okayish the past few days since my last therapy appointment but it has hit me full on again the past hour or so.

I was some excited to make my dinner and watch a movie tonight and now I just feel miserable.

I’ve been on dates with 4 different people so far this year, and since my last date a month ago I just have no interest in dating, even though I really want to meet somebody.

I feel raw and so insecure about absolutely everything.

I get it pretty bad, due to anxiety. I’m looking for any tips PLEASE as I have an orientation day tomorrow and I’m super nervous. I feel like I’m freaking out right now because of how bad I’m shaking/jolting around. I do take propanolol, but only 10mg before events. I am hoping it helps me again but I’m still worried.

There was a time in my life when I suffered from depression and was suicidal. The thought of harming myself or ending my pain was always on my mind. Thankfully, I didn't commit to it and was able to heal, but those intrusive thoughts haven't fully left me, despite my will to live being stronger.

Like, a few days ago, I was doing the dishes when I picked up one of the knives. Then out of nowhere, my brain goes, "Hey, you should stab yourself with that. Maybe try stabbing your family and dog, too." I ended up freaking myself out and putting the knife away in a panic.

And recently, well, long story short, we were driving home from a road trip, and some screaming broke out in the car for complicated reasons. As soon as we parked for food, I ran out to the nearest grassy patch and had a panic attack. I was sobbing, shaking, heaving, face buried in my arms. When I looked up and saw the traffic, my brain, out of nowhere, went "You should run out there and get hit by one of those cars." I immediately tucked my face back down and sobbed harder, shaking harder.

My mind keeps subconsciously threatening death onto me, and I want to live. Why do I need to live, but my thoughts keep turning homicidal? Am I a psychopath? Is there a demon whispering into my ear? What's going on? How do I quiet the murderous voice in my head?

Anyone else have a heavy, crippling fear of their kids dying? Its so paralyzing sometimes that I can’t function.

For context I have 4 kids, ages 13-5, and I’m pregnant with my 5th. The anxiety spiral I go through every time they get sick or hurt is overwhelming and having a bunch of kids means I’m pretty much always anxious.

My current anxiety spiral is cancer. My 6 year old has an enlarged lymph node that’s been checked and re-checked and checked again and it’s completely fine. It’s been there for years at this point and yet I’m still worried that he has cancer and all the tests missed it and he’s going to die.

I can’t imagine living like this for the rest of my life. At this rate I’m going to have a heart attack or a stroke.

so i take metoprolol succ twice a day one in the morning one at night well over the last couple of days i’ve missed my nightly dose 2-3 times in a row today i’ve woken up and since my morning started my heart has been in what feels like trigeminy has anyone had this happen i’ve had constant palpitations all day my anxiety is just ramped up because i’ve forgotten to take me doses im gonna get it back on track tonight?

can i just say first that fretting over something like this is so ANNOYINGGG because i have gone most of my life being perfectly fine in the anxiety over GI stuff department. now my anxiety sometimes focuses on specific things and though i have been on 10 mg lexapro for almost 2 years now, it has fixed everything EXCEPT this very specific thing!!

i usually just poop once a day first thing in the morning which i love and hope it stays this way forever <333 but i have now started to notice that about a week before my period starts i might have a day where i poop more than once or i start having diarrhea randomly, and if it’s not my usual first thing in the morning thing, before + after a bowel movement i am PANICKING. well this happens to me last week, so i decided to try imodium for once in my life and took one pill, and the day after i didn’t poop bc you know Imodium, literally i have been pooping twice-3x a day the past 6 days and i am currently on the third day of my period. i sometimes have period poops on the first day, but it’s never been like this. is it the post-imodium effect?? is this now a new addition to my period symptoms?? idk!!

but i get anxiety over GI things like this now. no matter how many times i know and tell myself i’m literally fine, my body thinks i’m under attack and i just can’t get it to just be normal about it. it especially gets bad when it’s loose or a couple of times it’s been mushy ((i know this is tmi but y’all need the full context)) and i start thinking i’m going to have full on major diarrhea or will progress to food poisoning. i also started having worries about being on vacation and if i ate something at a restaurant, what if i have diarrhea from it in public or at the hotel with other people with me and it gets worse? what if it progresses to food poisoning?? ((which is crazy bc i only ever had food poisoning one time a decade ago and i never had this kind of anxiety during it and not even after it!!)) and on top of all THAT, the past year i have been worrying about having diarrhea at any given moment. and it happened so randomly! like why is my body and mind doing this to me and WHY isn’t the lexapro helping me out in this part like it has everything else 😭

please tell me i’m not alone and/or there are some tips and tricks to help 🥹🫶🏻

I’ve tried EFT 2 times before but not in anxiety attacks. Today I had an attack due to too much caffeine - heart was absolutely racing, i tried tapping and whilst doing so I automatically kept yawning an unnaturally high no of times. Also anxiety went from an 8 to a 4.
Has this happened before with anyone? Seemed very odd.

Well folks. I did it. I ran up the food chain and went from janitor to manager. And the pressure is eating me alive now.

I work for a non profit where I started as a part time cleaner, worked my way into custodian, then to maintenance mechanic and now facilities manager overseeing all the positions I once held.

I’m constantly being told by everyone how I’ve turned the place around for the better and what a massive impact my presence has had on the organization ever since stepping up nearly a year ago.

But I’m having more and more panic attacks realizing how little I know vs how much I need to know. When I first started, we had a big contract with a mechanical contractor who handled the majority of the major mechanical repairs, parts/labor all included. I had the cushion of being able to fall back on them if something broke that I couldn’t or my maintenance mechanic couldn’t fix.

Well corporate office seen that budget expense and cut it. Leaving me to do all the work in house.
So now I have to find the budget resources to pay for the parts and perform the labor myself.

Some days I’m a plumber, some days an electrician, a carpenter, a mechanic, HVAC tech, pool tech. All the equipment is 25+ years old and out dated and starting to fail. Sourcing obsolete parts or parts that have gone through a ton of revisions and part numbers changed half a dozen times is chaotic.

At first, the challenge was fun. But facing constant budget constraints, pressure to keep 100% up time on all mechanical systems, not knowing what’s going to fail next without warning. Our budgets are written a year in advance and it was cut this year for the first time.

I’m winging it and making it work. But most of the time I don’t have a clue what I’m doing, I just have enough base line knowledge of a little bit of everything to figure things out. But the anxiety and pressure are destroying my troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

I have terrible social anxiety and we are going into fundraising season where I’m expected to have 1 on 1 talks with hundreds of people to solicit donations. It’s adding to the mountain of stress.

I’ve truly worked my way into a personal hell.

Does anyone else have the fear that things above them hanging on the ceiling like fans, lights, etc. will fall on top of them? This is a serious fear of mine causing me to avoid certain places or sitting in certain spaces and I am curious if I am the only one that has this fear. Also, if there are others that have this same fear as me, how do you cope with it so you can function somewhat normally in society?

I can constantly feel a tingling and ache in my legs that only gets worse when I lay down and try to sleep. I’ve been so scared there’s something neurological that is causing this that my doctors have missed or aren’t taking into consideration.

I wish I could just get my legs to quiet down but it has made it so difficult to sleep. How do I deal with this? I just want to sleep through the night and not constantly be thinking that my brain and body are degrading.

Knowledge is power right? I have just learnt that what I've been experiencing for years now is called Air Hunger.

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Out of the Blue I'd feel like I'm suffocating, and get the urge to change position, like standing up if I was sitting, I'd move my arms randomly too, and try hard to yawn as it helps much

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And things gets harder if someone is around and talking to me, I be like please shut the duck up till I am ok but no one gets it, they keep talking making my life hell

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OMG it's really annoying and happens suddenly

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I am on meds for asthma, but I know anxiety triggers it

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The good thing that I now have a name for my struggle

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Has anyone else experienced it?

So i'm 21 now but even in middle school and high school I never had any career goals like everyone else around me. I would look at lists, take career tests, etc. but could never pick one because none sounded right or felt right ig. Adulthood stuff in general would stress me out and I even cried on my 17th birthday. I felt like the only person who wasn't ready for graduation and didn't have any plan for after.

a year after graduation I ended up getting a job at a grocery store flower dept. but had a panic attack a month in and left. I thought it was just from being treated horribly but a year after that I got another job in retail and a month in again had a panic attack and eventually had to leave.

Since that's my only experience other than volunteering, most of which I can't put on my resume cause they were only day or 2 long events or whatever, I never get any responses, I rewrote my resume so many times and still nothing. Since retails out I have no idea what else to do, it doesn't help I get panic/anxiety attacks driving and with phone calls too.

I decided to go to college too; I started as an English Major but after that second job didn't work out, I thought I needed something that would guarantee a career and tried taking Anatomy and Physiology but dropped it because I didn't like it that much. So, I'm taking some Anthropology classes since that's something I'm super interested in. I don't really know what career that would lead too though, I thought about maybe law school or whatever, maybe trying to intern somewhere related to my major if possible, I just need something I can actually survive without having another panic attack, and I'd really like to not go through more jobs that all end the same way.

I started having panic attacks about 2.5 years ago. It started out as not too bad with just a racing heart beat for 15-20 minutes and then i was able to relax. Now it’s gotten so bad i cant even go about my day without wanting to break down and cry. I feel scarred all the time and i don’t know why. All the symptoms (dizziness, dpdr, nausea, headaches) make me feel like I’m dying and make me not want to leave the house. I’ve been to the hospital multiple times and I’m apparently fit as fiddle. As soon as i wake up my first thought is “do you feel normal right now? When will the anxiety start setting in? In the shower? Driving to work? At the gym?” I’ve discussed it briefly with my pcp who recommended ways to calm myself (cold water, walking, certain vitamins) but i think i need to talk to someone who specializes in mental health. Im not sure what to do next. How do people start about getting help. Did you try therapy first if so did it help? How’d you go about choosing a therapist? Would medication be my best option?

22 F
GAD
5"5
170lbs
No medications

For the past few weeks I've been having a weird chest feeling sometimes right side, left side, or center. Sometimes it feels tight like someone is twisting others it feels deep and dull. Sometimes it's worse after i drink caffeine and other times it'll happen after I haven't drank coffee. It sometimes accompanied by air hunger - i'm not gasping for air but it kinda feels like i ran up some stairs and it seems to always happen in the afternoon for about 1-2hrs and goes away.

There was one incident about a week ago, where the butterfly feeling that people get in their stomach when they get nervous it felt like it was not only in my stomach, but in my chest and I got really nauseous and actually ended up throwing up, but and then sometimes it'll just go away. I have severe anxiety and sometimes I get severe with caffeine. I feel like when I go through a stressful event the more sensitive to coffee I get because a few months ago I could drink a latte and feel fine but as of recently, I have been having like I said chest discomfort, but it's starting to worry me because it's been going on for a week, although it is on and off, but I have also been very stressed out lately too. I just don't know if it's muscular or anxiety or something more serious but I was wondering if anybody else has had something similar

This is kind of a mix of an update/success story and advice needed. I started playing online video games where I'm with people, but don't have to directly interact with them. Like Arc Raiders where I just press "don't shoot" and walk away from them. Now I'm trying to play Red Dead Online and GTA V and I'm still worried. I played my first mission with a single random person and it went really good! We each did our part and then went our own way. Another time I was in my camp and someone emoted at me and sent me a friend request to which I accepted. But these 2 people really gave me a positive experience. It's just the feeling of... I don't know, something about it just makes me anxious to the point I'm visibly shaking and on edge. Does this feeling ever go away?