Okay everyone
I have posted a few other discussions but have come across a new problem. I have suffered from anxiety/panic disorder for 8 years now.But now my panic attacks seem to be a little different, Im not getting the usual hyperventalations, heartpounding, shortness of breath panic attacks. Now when they start I just get this over whelming feeling of fear and real scared feeling ,I feel like I am going crazy, I get feelings of derealization and my mind races with random thought and I get scared even if they not scary thoughts. has anyone else experianced this?
I'm experiencing this at the moment. I seem to have stopped having physical
Panic attacks the past few weeks however just feel like I am dying and an overwhelming fest comers over me. I always ask my boyfriend if I'm going to die..my heart feels tingly and my left arm and my thoughts are horrible!
Yes I have had this. It's horrid. I always fear it. Do you find any meds help? It does pass but it's vile - happens to me after I have been drinking sometimes. It didn't used to though.
Yes I take klonopin and just started on lexapro for the 2nd time
I'm on diazepam
But I'm trying not to take it anymore I don't want to take any meds. I've been doing hypnotherapy and I find it really helps but I just feel like I'm not the Sam person anymore I always think irrationally. I'm on my way out with my mates to drink and have fun and it's so hard with this feeling in my heart
What kind of thoughts do you have if you dont mind me asking. I always am afraid that I am developing schizophrenia or something of that bad nature. My psychitrist says no but im not convinced because my symptoms arent the same as they use to be
Yeah mine is exactly that as well think I'm going mad and wondering why I'm having weird thoughts and think I'm a freak for thinking horrible things. It's s**t!
I also read the the post you posted about the left arm and heart. Just wanted to tell you thats one of the main symptoms I get with my anxiety and it last all day long.
Ok cool coz I'm in the car and I just can't relax and think I'm going to have a heart attack and I keep reading that 24 year old girls don't have heart attacks but it's so hard to shake the feeling off!
Hi, Yeh, i had the same thing when i was out at a restaurant with my Dad. I kept worrying that everyone was starring at me, i was thinking way to much, not even paying attention to my dad, just the people around me. All of a sudden it was like a rush of overwhelming anxiety shooting through my whole body. I was trying my best not to panic but i went pale as a ghost, felt so faint and had to leave the restaurant. I didn't even eat my meal. It kind of felt like a tingling blank feeling through my body. Is that the same sort of feeling you had? I was on medication at the time though. It was called Citalopram. I stopped taking it a few days after that happened. I havnt had that experience since i stopped taking the meds but i just get the usual anxiety attacks now. I do get derealization though quite often which is really scary. I have read before that thinking too much can cause it to happen. Which makes sense because i was thinking of everything. Are these people looking at me, whats wrong with me, why cant i be normal, what happening... on and on, so many thoughts. Omg im thinking tooo much now haha. Anyways you are not alone. Hope you can work it out 
Just to say that I have had all these sensations and experiences many hundreds of times but YOU ARE NOT DYING. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. YOU WILL DEFINATELY BE OK. What you are feeling is the effects of a large dose of adrenaline in your system which your body has produced for you, It will not harm you in any way. You certainly not going mad. Anxiety is not a mental health problem. It is your own sympathetic nervous system producing a lot of the hormone adrenaline. It has many affects on the body, all sorts of weird things. It will also temporarily alter your thinking in bizarre and strange unsettling ways BUT here's the thing. IT'S ONLY ANXIETY. It will do you no harm at all and you WILL return to normal thinking and body sensation. It cannot harm you in any way. No one has ever died from anxiety. Ever (and you are NOT the exception. You are OK. It is just some uncomfortable feelings in your body, which, if you ignore, will go away. Unfortunatly we tend to dwell on the feelings and weird thoughts to try to 'fix' them or make them go away. This only scares you more and then your body responds by creating more adrenaline and so it goes on and on. But dont worry, the body can only produce a limited amount of adrenaline before it runs out. So, either way, you will be perfectly OK, just sooner or a bit later. Don't bother try to make it go away. The sympathetic nervous system is not in your control (like your heartbeat or sweating or trembles or shakes, all out of your direct control) so you cant do it. It will go away by itself if you leave it alone. Be as nice and kind to yourself as possible while it's going on and remember. It will not harm you, you are actually totally OK. Nothing bad is going to happen to you,You will not die or go mad or anything like that. It just feels like that, at the moment and it can be a very convincing uncomfortable state to be in. But it is a big con.
I have researched anxiety for many years and spoken to a lot of doctors, experts, therapists andread a lot of books. They all say the same thing. It will not harm you in any way at all and the best thing to do is just sit it out and try and distract yourself as best you can until it passes. It is only the effects of a hormone. That's all. Big hug xx
Rachael, there isn't a chance in hell that you are schizophrenic or going mad in any shape or form. You are OK. It's perfectly normal to feel this way when you are in an anxiety state. I thought exactly the same and I'm sure an awful lot of other people on this forum have questioned there sanity as well. At right this moment there are literally hundreds of thousands of people all over the world feeling and thinking exactly the same as you are, right now. All in an anxiety state, just as you are, temporarily. All thinking they are going mad or about to die. They don't! Nobody does! All they get is uncomfortable feelings in their body and weird thoughts for a while. That's all. That's as bad as it gets. It will pass and you will be ok.
O yes, and by the way, you are NOT the exception!