Can you explain your symptoms/feelings when you are having high anxiety? I feel a sense of dread, like something wrong or like something bad is found to happen?
For me, it goes beyond a fear and becomes a conviction that the bad thing has already happened, and now I have to figure out how to deal with it
It's different for everyone but like the person above mentioned it's feeling like something bad will happen or already did. For me, I feel like I'm trapped in my own mind, feeling an immense amount of fear overcome my body, I get weird bodily sensations as well. A lot of tingling in my head and body. My chest will feel super tight. When my anxiety was at it's worse I would derealize so everything around me felt fake. One time I derealized so bad I started doubting my son was even real. Lol I laugh at that now that I've learned to control a bit more but it was definitely scary to go through.
@Dianaa_8274 Yeah that sounds scary, any tips?
@Anonymous Honestly the more I learned about this disorder the less scarier it was, I practiced breathing when I started feeling anxious, I allowed myself to feel uncomfortable and reminded myself that anxiety was not going to kill me it was a disorder. I reminded myself that thoughts are only thoughts and that fears were not facts. One thing that helped me a lot when I would feel anxious was I would say "it's okay to feel uncomfortable right now" . One time I had a full break down and kept thinking "here I go down the rabbit hole again" and then I stopped myself, got up and went to go wash the dishes that were dirty and started dinner. I pushed though it even though I was sobbing the entire time lol I think it's funny now but I'm glad I did it. My therapist told me once that when things feel the hardest is when we need to push the hardest. You got this!
@Dianaa_8274 OMG thank you for this!!!!
My mind keeps telling me “something is wrong with you. the weird feeling you are feeling or the weird tingling you are feeling or there is a weird mark on your body. Those are actually a severe symptom and by ignoring it you could die!” Or especially the constant, “go to the emergency room because this impending doom you are feeling, yeah that’s because your gonna die shortly” It doesn’t help whenever people say “well if something was wrong your body would tell you” because my mind keeps telling me that what I’m feeling is proof something is wrong and I need to get it checked out. That I actually am severely sick and that I need to get it checked out as soon as possible, that if I get one more test than I’ll be okay because it will prove nothing is wrong. How do I tell my mind that it’s just anxiety whenever my mind keeps telling me “well if you keep saying that you could be ignoring something more serious.” Or “the doctors are just brushing you off..something is wrong with you” It’s hard to live with my thoughts whenever they are constantly coming up with ways to challenge me and challenge logic. New reasons on why I need to get this checked out because “I’m just being ignored” or “no one is listening to me so I’ll just end up dying” My symptoms range from weak and shaking legs and body to dizzy and unbalanced and dissociated. Recently I’ve been getting this tingling feeling inside my head and on the back of my neck. And my temples have pressure on them. My body keeps coming up with new symptoms I need to worry about, whenever most of them are probably caused by severe and constant anxiety. So severe I can’t even leave the house because I constantly worry about whether this is severe and something will happen if I leave the house. I need immediate ways to start fixing this because it’s especially horrible whenever my period comes around and my anxiety/depression is already higher than usual. I’ve even started considering taking medication (Zoloft, 25mg) which is another trigger for me, I worry about the symptoms I might get from taking it. That’s how you know it’s gotten pretty bad whenever I’ve come to taking something that I’ve been actively avoiding. What are your thoughts? Do I take the medication? What are ways I can deal with my symptoms that seem so severe in the moment but pass by once I’m not anxious? What are ways my thoughts can ease and I stop taking every symptom as something serious, because at the end of the day my anxiety is most likely the reason I have these horrible symptoms. I’ve always been extremely healthy and everytime I go to the doctors they express how healthy I am with all the tests I’ve had.
I always wake up full of dread and fear. My anxiety is through the roof two seconds after I open my eyes. Someone on this app gave me a similar insight once I believe. But I think anxiety is just the urge to ruminate. About what? It probably doesn’t matter, as long as I can torture myself, as OCD loves. Does anyone else relate to this or agree maybe?
I have panic disorder, and OCD and anxiety. Does anyone else ever feel just off the edge all the time? Like I always feel like something’s off or something’s gonna happen. I don’t know how to explain the feeling. But I always feel off and when I feel off I panic
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