My mind is scanning for things to scare me

It seems like once i calm myself down from one fear another one comes up. My brain just can’t let me be calm recently for some reason and I feel like it just scans for ideas to scare me. I have been sick for the past week and have been going through some problems with dysautonomia and tmj. My body has been very on edge and having symptoms lately like dizziness, lightheaded, nauseous, headaches, heart racing, etc. The dizziness has really been freaking me out but it seems to be getting better with time and not scanning for it. All day i find myself switching between wondering if i’m going to feel dizzy again, it getting worse, it lasting forever, or if im going to lose my mind and go crazy even if im not even feeling dizzy in that moment. If i calm myself down from that my brain wants to think about death to scare me. If i can calm myself down from that my brain thinks hard about more existential concepts and life. I think my nervous system is just at a very heightened point right now and for some reason I just have to be scared about something at all times. I’m trying really hard to let all thoughts pass by and not pay them much attention because I have a tendency to get super caught up on things and digging myself in an anxious hole that is hard to get out of which I want to avoid. Even when i’m not thinking of anything i just feel on edge. I just want to feel calm and peaceful and be able to enjoy life. Any advice with any of these things?

sharkygirl

Date posted: 3d

I don't know if this will help, my OCD presents in a very similar way and I think about it like this: my OCD is terrified of uncertainty, sometimes anxiety just happens and OCD wants to create a story about it to imbue a false sense of certainty almost as though it's easier to think, oh, I'm scared of xyz rather than not knowing what you're scared of. Does that make sense? So I try to remind myself that my nervous system is just expelling anxiety, which especially can ramp up after physical stress like you're describing with being ill, and I remind myself that OCD is trying to come up with stories to protect me but that doesn't mean the stories are true and then I do my absolute best to allow all of those feelings and stories to be there because it will eventually pass and your nervous system will eventually settle even if it takes a while. Hang in there

Cupake21211

Date posted: 3d

Omg this happened to me today I finally felt at ease then we were talking about something and awhile ago later we were talking about something and I had this weird type friend long story short was weird creepy but not dangerous a few years ago and my brain was scared I would fall for him even if I don’t have attraction belt him after awhile I stopped being friends with him and my brain foregetd but when I hear his name k get weirded outor triggered but if my family members jokingly says I liked him then a thought I hadn’t had for awhile would emerge that what and I felt a weird feeling and I was showing my teachers picture and she is like your blushing when I’m talking about him he is not that old really but yeah and my brain is scared if someone is not my type ussually like not in a bad way but normally I would be scared if I like them I won’t like my type anymore and I suffered with hocd for awhile but it’s a lot better for when I was finally peaceful now at least my brains like why is one side of your face uneven if why is your lip to much to the other side so I can take when I feel finally peaceful as I’m also sensitive which does not help the situation even a your ugly can trigger me when you finally feel perfect something has to happen and heart racing and headaches are common for me as well then today my false memory off came out of nowhere and another way was trying to scare me as well

Cupake21211

Date posted: 3d

My teacher was on social media and he never is normally

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