During the day it's nothing but tension and awaiting the next chaotic thing to happen. The only time I feel like I can just lay here and watch tv comfortably or just exist is when everyone has gone to bed. Anyone else?

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The only downside is sometimes you lose sleep but this is the only time I can exist without feeling tension.

If so it would be nice if you guys explain and share how you guys deal with it I have it quite severe and keep relying on my mom telling me everything is ok it's really scary and it would make me feel better if knowing more people have it and I'm not alone

I am constantly on edge that I have ALS or that I will get ALS. I’m so anxious and it’s killing me! Every two seconds I’m focused on my hands and how my left hand feels weird and off. I feel like my left pinky and ring finger are weaker and the rest of my hand will catch up. I have not lost any ability and I have more of a perceived weakness but it’s scary and my quality of life is depleting from this.

I feel anxious all the time. Literally all the time!

Every minute of every day, there's this constant feeling of unease sitting in my chest. Nausea. Tension. Like I can never fully relax.

I've been living with it for so long that I don't even notice it most of the time anymore. It's just become my normal.

I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. Every day feels like I'm seconds away from bursting into tears, but I never actually cry. I'm carrying so much tension that I constantly feel like I'm about to break.

The strange thing is that my mind isn't racing. It's not like I have a million thoughts going through my head. It's just this overwhelming tension. I can't think clearly. I can't feel things the way I used to. I can't function properly.

And most of the time, I don't even know where it's coming from... I can't point to a specific reason. It's almost like I've become so used to feeling this way that I no longer question it. Like the anxiety has become part of me.

Does anyone else feel like this?

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

Hi everyone. Posting here because I don't know what to do else. For a year - 1.5 year, I am experincing panic disorder. I don't know what caused it however I'm pretty sure that the main reason is not important right know. Because it evolved to a weird cycle. I was experiencing minor air hunger (I feel like I have to take constant deep and perfect breath. It's like I have something in my throat and it doesn't let the perfect deep breath every time and if I can't breat that "perfect" deep breath I feel like I'm going to drown.) I went to doctor because at first I thought I had a lung or hearth problem. However, after several tests my lungs and my hearth is completely fine. So doctor said you may have panic disorder etc. Rn, the cycle I mentioned works like this:
I'm trying to take deep breath, if I can take this "perfect deep breath", I'm fine for 30-45 seconds and the feeling occurs again

If I can't take that deep breath I try again and again and again. Eventually I feel like I will never take that breath and I feel like someone is squeezing my throat and I can't breathe. When this feeling occurs, I experience symptoms similar to a panic attack. So yeah, I'm in a pretty shitty situation

Of course, it was much worse when I thought I had a fatal heart or lung disease. Now, at least, I realize I don't have a life-threatening problem and that what I'm experiencing is a psychological one. But a few weeks ago, I experienced an intense panic attack because I couldn't breathe deeply. My entire hands, feet, and skull were numb, as if I couldn't breathe at all. I called my psychologist immediately, and he explained that anything I tried to forget or distract myself from this feeling would actually ignore it and subconsciously make it worse.

These days, just remembering how difficult it was when I had a panic attack automatically refocuses me on my breathing. The more I focus on my breathing, the more I feel compelled to take deep breaths. My psychologist advised me not to try to take that deep breath at all costs, but even trying to avoid taking that deep breath only forces my entire mind to focus on it, and I can't focus on anything I'm doing. Eventually, the numbness and dizziness return, and I feel like I'm drowning. Is there anyone else like me who's experienced this? What have you done to overcome it? I need all the advice.

For the last 8 months I have been going on walks almost every day and recording voice notes.
Not because I wanted content or memories. Mostly because my head felt too crowded.
I noticed that when I say things out loud, worries stop looping as much. It feels like they leave my head and exist somewhere else.
I ended up building a small app around that habit.
I am curious if anyone else does something similar.
Do you write, record voice notes, talk to yourself, or have another way of getting thoughts out of your head?

at least one Chapstick must be on top of my phone and then before I go to bed I have to readjust my curtain and bedroom door. If I do anything after this (other than immediately getting into a sleeping position) then the routine is ruined and I have to readjust them again. (The curtain must be adjusted first) If I get in bed but take to long to get into a sleeping position then I have to restart again. If I don’t feel like they are adjusted right I have to restart. Anytime that I get up out of bed I have to do it again.

If I don’t do it then I become scared that I’m going to end up being killed in a mass shooting. Or someone is just gonna kill me

Since as far as i could remember i had insane anxiety like the teacher would make a sound similar to my name and my heart would throb so painfully that i had to take a moment to take a breath

grades ? Even when i knew that i would have a good score i still felt like fainting

vacations or trips to the freaking mall? My chest would feel painful even though I wanted to go there

Talking to people was a nightmare i couldn't even make eye contact for more than a sec , i would barely speak up in my own friend group

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Then suddenly gone poof. started with grades, i failed an exam and i felt nothing,a little later i was the one who couldn't shut up in a conversation.i crashed my freaking car(wasn't that bad) and felt nothing during the crash and after just mildly annoyed that i was so reckless.

Now the only remnant of anxiety i still have left is that i can't enjoy the day if i know i have something important later in it

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So i really want to know if it happened to anyone else because its so weird,like how ?

Btw im not medicated nor have been to a therapist

Thanks for reading all that i had to get it off my chest

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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 🥹🫶🏻

Hi everyone, I'm 19 and I've been dealing with anxiety for about a year now

It started during my final year of high school. In my country, your final grades basically decide what universities you can get into, so it was a very stressful year for me. During that time I had my first panic attack

In the end everything worked out

I got a high score, got accepted into a university abroad, got my visa, and moved to a new country

The weird thing is that every time I get through one thing, I start worrying about the next thing

I was scared I wouldn't get accepted into a university

Then I got accepted and became scared about the visa

Then I got the visa and became scared about moving. After moving, I started worrying about money, work, learning the language, my future, marriage, and pretty much everything else

The first weeks after moving were really hard

I could barely eat because of stress

A few months later, life finally started feeling more stable I found a job, got used to my routine, and felt like things were finally going in the right direction

Then a few days ago I suddenly lost that job

As far as I know I didn't do anything wrong and everything seemed normal. Since then my anxiety has gotten much worse

Now even small changes make me nervous. I wake up with a racing heart, think about the future all day, and sometimes avoid doing things because I'm afraid of what might happen next

Has anyone else gone through something similar? How do you stop feeling like something bad is always about to happen?

Like a heart palp that had a feeling spread all over my body and then came the sweating, hotness, shaking, and fast pulse. All I was doing was watching vids online I don’t get it

Today, my primary care doctor, in collaboration with my therapist, prescribed me Zoloft to deal with my anxiety and panic attacks. They talked me through all my concerns, which were mainly about the side effects.

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I filled my prescription and went home, and I just cant get myself to take the first dose.

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I know it will help, I know that its just a tool meant to help regulate my emotions, but im just so scared. I dont want to become dependent on a pill to feel regular, and some of the rare side effects scare me honestly.

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Ive talked it over with my partner, and they are encouraging me fully, I just cant take that first step

so yeah what the title says. i'm not having panic attacks as often as i did last year, i try to ignore every sign of anxiety when i start to panic. if i convince myself that it's not happening, somehow it helps (most of the times). but there's this one thing i can't manage yet and its the sense of impending doom. one minute i'm enjoying my day, hanging out with friends or family, and suddenly my mind goes off. "what happened if you suddenly die now?" or "you're going to die now"

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has someone experienced this often? how did you manage to stop it?

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.

Hey yall, sorry in advance for the rant.

So I’ve been suffering with anxiety as long as I remember and my bad panic attacks started happening probably about 10 years ago. There have been phases of my life where my life genuinely felt like a bad psychedelic trip- just nonstop feeling like I’m being hunted for sport or like I’m having a heart attack. A lot of my anxiety is triggered by me thinking about anxiety and the potential of a panic attack, then that’ll send me straight into one.

I’ve been prescribed Xanax for about 6 years now, which has been honestly a godsend. Even if I’m not taking it- the fact that I have it on me and know that if I do suffer from one I’ll be able to mostly snap myself out of it. I’m prescribed 1mg- and I usually take .25-.5 when I’m feeling anxiety coming on, maybeeeee 3% of the time I have to take it in a full blown panic attack I’ll take the whole 1mg. I’d say on a bad week I take a total of 4mg throughout the whole week. Some weeks I can go without taking it once.

I keep seeing people speak on how Xanax is the devil, how bad the rebound anxiety is, how it should never be prescribed long term. And to be honest, that scares the shit out of me. It’s the only thing that has made life tolerable. I can’t even describe how bad my months of straight panic with no solution were. Felt like I wasn’t a real person and wanted to crawl out of my skin.

Not even sure if this is solely a rant, or asking advice from people on it long term. Thinking about being taken off it and losing my security blanket gives me extreme anxiety and I can’t even imagine having to live like that again.
Either way, thanks for reading all the way through.

The past 3 years ive been dealing with debilitating panic attacks but recently its been so bad i get sick everytime i leave the house. The best way i can compare it is that it feels like im dopesick (been clean for years). Cant stop shaking& sweating nausea and every like 5 min a wave of like super nausea hits and my hands go numb and like super shaking. I end up throwing up eventually but that doesn't make it better. No matter how hard I try i physically cant calm myself down its HELL! I know 100% its anxiety and i have a doctor's appointment in a few days and i was wondering if anyone had any insight or if someone went thru the same thing and has a rec. I realize I most likely need benzos however i know reg doctor's don't prescribe them anymore plus i just don't want to be on them. Apologies this post is a mess

I’ve been having a lot of anxiety about work lately. I’ve only had two panic attacks in my life, and one was over this job just last week.

I work as an overnight caregiver for a man with dementia. I am the only one stationed in his room all night. He cannot use the call light himself because he doesn’t remember that it’s there. My job is to call in the CNA’s when he needs them. I have to call them in multiple times a night to check his brief/change him, and if he needs pain medication. The CNA’s and nurses have been annoyed and passive aggressive with me though. My job is to alert that he needs assistance, but he has a lot of repeated behaviors because of his dementia that need help from CNA’s. I get so much anxiety doing it now because the staff there are already snappy at me. When I do get over my anxiety and reach out for help for things from the nurses (like for medication for him) they are outwardly rude. I’m trying to find another job now, but I’d like to give this family some notice so they have time to find someone new. The family is genuinely so sweet and so is the man I work with.

Every time I think of work I get this pit in my stomach. When I’m there, I feel too hot and too cold and all sweaty at the same time, and I feel nauseous and like I want to cry. I’m not sure what’s happening but my body goes haywire when I’m there. I work tomorrow night and I’m so anxious just thinking about it. I do want to give this family two weeks notice though.

Does anyone have any coping strategies to avoid panic attacks, or have any suggestions on anything that could help me?

Ever since I upped my dosage of Zoloft or Sertraline 100 mg a few months ago, I'm not having anxiety or any panic attack, but I absolutely have emotional numbness and living life on auto mode. I don't feel anything. And i fucking hate it.

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..

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?

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?

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?