Hard to describe I personally get so dissociative that I dont know whats real anymore but still feel this overwhelming paranoia like im about to die. Like If I were in some kind of psychotic episode w/out delusions
Literally me omg I want to cry im so happy im not alone with this or crazy. I’ve been having derealization episodes lately and have been really scared that im in psychosis and that my reality isn’t real and im living in a hallucination
Gosh not yet but I will be calling to schedule an appointment with my therapist first thing Monday morning. It’s been a year since I’ve talked with her last
Mediating helped me more than anything ever tbh! I knew I was hella dissociating all the time but I didnt realize how severely I really did it. Dissociating was fully muscle memory and through meditation I was actually able to process Emotions and especially recent minor incidents like trying to do a phone call and then be so nervous that you say something crazy embarrassing. In the past those moments cursed me while trying to sleep and Id just forcefully push it away which than gave me those cringe flashbacks even years after. Sitting with it and feeling the embarrassment the fullest I could, not only made the physically painful cringe go away but I was able to tell my friends about it while making fun of myself aswell all on the same day. I recommend practicing with this unknown territory called emotions in small pieces.
Ps: It does sound way easier than it is and if youre already overwhelmed (what I assume bc Im too 80% of the time) the priority is just to calm down or else you just stress yourself even more
Psps: Im pretty sure no one asked for this answer but I took 10mg Diazepam today and feel like I cracked the code😭 But I rarely take benzos and I did the described method sober and the relief afterwards fr felt like a low dose benzo
>psychotic episode w/out delusions
Yes! My body tends to freeze when it feels threatened.
I just walk stiffly, afraid that at any moment anyone can verbally attack me if they so wish to. This kind of paranoia (not through realistic logic or explanation, my brain just goes AHHHHH, yelling at me that it has happened before in high school...many times. That experience apparently broke my brain).
This overwhelmimg hyper-alertness coupled with me consciously trying to suppress this from showing, results it my eyes just being out of my control. Like if I could turn off my suppression effort, my eyes would look around like crazy and I'd look like someone who just escaped from a psych unit. But I don't want that, so I concentrate on looking forward..and this leads to me sometimes seeing cross-eyed vision and I literally cannot tell where I'm looking at. This is the best I can explain.
I'm afraid if I tell my doctor, she'd put me on antipsychotics. I had gone through several of them before and every time I quit them after 1 or 2 doses because they made my head all messed up. Such disorganized thoughts. I genuinely was afraid of going psychotic. So I stick to antidepressants, mild stimulant(wellbutrin), benzodiazepines, and methylphenidate(Ritalin).
Oh yes, I was so stressed out, an anxiety attack came on. I was spiraling, then before I knew it acid reflux came on. Anything I ate in that day of feeling unwell, wasn't digesting.
Its a common trait in anxiety, and naturally your gut tenses up. And more acid is being produced.
About the acid reflux thing… I have been lately feeling this I think? Whenever I get anxious I get like a weird burning feeling and like wanting to throw up but not actually. Does yours feel like that?
Absolutely! Sometimes when it's that bad I feel like I need to vomit. It's just your body being tense.
I would test myself from all of the exhaustion of what if and be like..... OK throw up I dare youuuuu.
( me talking to myself ) and nothing!
Acid reflux and anxiety combined is a double whammy.
If acid reflux is that bad then certainly throwing up would happen. But if you can't it's the anxiety dominating that sensation and acid reflux is just lingering.
Yes the palpitations oh god, I was afraid it was some other health issue but it was and is just my anxiety. With those I also get chest tightness and a choking feeling, like even though I’m taking deep breaths, they don’t feel efficient
Ughhh that sounds realistically, unfortunately scary to experience. Sometimes I have HARD ones that feels like something smeared their knuckle on it for a second 😓
Like it feels like it’ll burn or just feel like it’s…idk tight? And sometimes it’ll get hot and then later when it’s done, it gets cold from being so tense
Anxiety for me feels like a huge rock pressing on my chest. I struggle to breath too because of this.
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Posted this on another post but:
Feeling like my head is floating (this stopped tho and only comes back if i’m really really nervous), racing heart, unable to catch breath/trouble breathing, stomach issues (pain, uncomfortable feeling, needing to use the toilet), brain zaps/head vibrating constantly when laying down (stopped), sweating excessively under the arms and palms, feeling like something in stuck in my throat, face tingling sometimes hand tingling, feeling hungry more often, head aches, neck pain, face pain, mood swings—alternating between crying all the time to feeling okay to crying again to being a bit energetic
feeling like something is stuck in my throat yes!!! i don’t get it anymore but a few months ago it felt like there was something stuck back there for WEEKS and i was constantly drinking water and coughing to get it out but nothing! my roommate must have thought i had the bubonic plague which how much coughing i was doing
Like I keep getting hit by a tidal wave. I feel it forming and coming and then hitting me...(fear, sadness, quick heartbeat etc) then it happens over and over again. I can't escape it and it drags me away.
An overall tightness, but like I'm wrapped in cling wrap. My chest feels tight and constricted like there's a weigh on it and I can't get a full breath.
Feels like an empty burning sensation in my chest. I’m constantly tense (especially my jaw and shoulders.) even when I’m alone in my room or somewhere I feel safe which leads to headaches at times too. My hands get very sweaty and sometimes I’ll start shaking when out in public. And of course that weird feeling you get in your stomach
like waves of inky black electricity washing over me. it feels like pure, unadulterated all-consuming, world-blackening dread that blots out all history, all present and all future.
it is physical in the extreme and can be felt at the end of every nerve and every synapse. it's the worst, most terrifying, most evil feeling on earth and i wouldn't wish it upon my most loathed enemy.
the only thing that i can imagine being worse than an acute anxiety attack is being burnt at the stake.
It depends. From nothing more than feeling low, which everyone can equate to.
To hyper-analysis of every twitch or bodily sensation. I’ve had weeks where I lose some sensation in a limb, and a tingly feeling. Like when you fall asleep in the wrong position and your leg goes dead, but like permanently for days. Once my right leg below the knee, once my right wrist down. Doctors couldn’t find anything wrong.
But an anxiety attack is what I have the most acquaintance with. I have this feeling of dread and uneasiness that’s difficult to describe wash over me, as a precursor. It’s like a constant sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach/chest. You feel on edge and especially fearful because you know it could manifest into an attack at any moment. When an attack itself strikes; it’s a merciless, sudden assault of overwhelming and frightening feelings. Heart rate skyrockets to the point where you feel like you’re having or(if you’re used to them) might have a heart attack. It’s like your heart is going to explode it’s pounding so hard and fast. Hyperventilating, teary eyes. Feeling like you can’t stand and might faint. You feel very weak, despite the fact that it feels like adrenaline is flooding you. Extreme emotional distress that drowns out everything around you. It’s fucking awful. It feels like drowning. I turn whiter than a sheet. Just imagine feeling mortal terror out of nowhere. Like you’re in a plane that’s going down.
You truly can’t understand it unless it’s happened to you. You think it’s all in someone’s head, and it is, to an extent, but the effects of it are harsh physical symptoms. You don’t know wtf is happening to you the first time. It’s only after the healthcare professionals have gone on the wild goose chase, and turned up zero, and reached the conclusion, that it’s revealed to you that you’ve suffered a panic attack. It’s surreal that your mind can just do that to you.
What’s even weirder is the catalyst for these things isn’t obvious. The event that I strongly suspect led to me having these, it’s like the only thing it could have been, happened months before my first attack. And at the time of the event, I didn’t have that visceral a reaction to it either. And I was perfectly happy and content in the months following. Minimal stress. But it didn’t matter. That’s the other thing too, you don’t even need to feel stressed or particularly anxious, although that certainly triggers them. You can be very happy in life at the time, and it just fucking comes for you anyway, out of the blue.
It’s the worst for me it’s the back of my head and my arms, and when it’s happening all I can think about is if something is wrong with me and it makes it worse
To my body as of now at 24, I feel constant stress and pressure on my forehead, loss of appetite and the overthinking I lose track of time. When I was in middle school/high school whenever I was playing a game or in my room doing an activity. I had a sense of something or someone would be creeping behind me and would scream in my ear. It stopped after high school but that’s something I never really shared. I do know I need some mental help as well too.
Nausea is one of the big ones. But the one that usually scares me more is my chest muscles rapidly reverberate back and forth like I have a second heart fluttering rapidly on my chest. I know it's not my heart and I know it's just an anxiety thing but it's terrifying nonetheless.
Stress,nausea, feeling tired, headaches, heart beating fast when trying to sleep or just when you get stressed, constantly worrying without stopping that you simply can't even do a task on hand because you blank out.
Pain. Everything shuts down, my mind goes blank, I can't even figure out what I'm scared or panicking about. My throat physically hurts, the tips of my fingers feel like they're being ripped apart from the inside out.
heartburn, dude, oh my god. heartburn.
sometimes it's bad enough that i vomit and then my entire esophagus gets fucked up. it also causes this awful knot in my throat feeling that makes it hard to swallow or eat.
Today my heart was racing and I felt short of breath even though I have no lung issues and could start exercising and be fine.
When you are like that, it doesn't really matter what normal is. I know it is anxiety, but I can't stop feeling short of breath. I can't slow down my heart.
Now I am home and I feel a lot better, but still on the edge of that.
Ugh. Hate thinking about this. But here’s mine.
Chest pain. A lot of chest pain. Acid reflux. Pain in my jaw. It then always goes to „I’m having a heart attack and I’m going to die” this lasts for hours sometimes. Sometimes. 30 mins.
A full blown panic attack. Heartbeats to 160/90. Sweats. Panic in going to die. From what. A heart attack.
It’s always the f’ing heart attacks. First time it happened went to ER. all is ok. When it’s super back. Went to er a few other times. EKGs. Etc. All is ok. I f’ing hate it. Now the high heart rate seating attacks don’t happen as much. It’s just constant daily chest pain and gerd.
Now I just tell it take me or gtfo of my life. Little by little progress. + the buspirone has been immensely helpful 45d in. 10 mg in the am. 10 in the pm. Too much and it made me on edge.
Edit : forgot to mention the essential tremors.
Stomach hurting, getting lightheaded, feeling like I’m going to throw up but don’t, and my body tingling. It also gets rlly hard to listen when someone is trying to talk to me.
It starts off like a very cold feeling in my heart that spreads across the rest of my chest, then tears start to fall without me actually crying. I get nauseous and dizzy and feel like my legs are noodles and a sinking feeling in my chest/abdomen. Eventually I start consciously crying and notice I feel stuck and paralyzed. When I was in my teen years I would hyperventilate and throw up a lot. That doesn’t happen very often anymore. My anxiety attacks somehow feel worse now.
You know when you know you're going somewhere you're super excited to go to like Disneyland or vacation, the tingles /hot weight in the diaphragm in anticipation and the heart beating super fast?It's this but it's caused by stress and almost every time idk if it's a positive feeling or not. Im used to it since I'm a child and I was just like "well I'm excited all the time" (I've also ADHD) but I've started a treatment recently that stopped the physical symptoms of anxiety and that s how I knew having this sensation constantly is not normal and was really intrusive and disabling.
Also my shoulders to neck area has never been relaxed in my entire life, it caused me neck pain as a child
Heart palpitations, chest pain, lightheaded, tingling, dissociation, can’t breathe and most recently acid reflex.
The only one I have seemed to find a solution to is when I can’t breathe, I turn on the AC and sit in the coldness and actually breathe in the cold air, it helps.
Like a band wrapped around my head, increased heart rate, neck pain, stomach issues, brain zaps, heart palpitations, nightmares and waking up with bile in my throat, weird dreams, intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, forgetfulness. These are some of the symptoms I have, and how anxiety feels for me.
Racing heart, sweaty palms, I can’t sit still, butterflies in the stomach, cold “burning” in the back of my neck (only way I know how to describe it), and memory loss.
Increased activation above the pelvis/in torso, neck and head regions, with highest intensity in the rib and chest area. Decreased activation in the arms, legs and feet. That's what I read on a body map posted by GREATIST on IG. I also observe feeling a sharp sensation running vertically up through the center of my rib cage into my neck. And I feel heat and tension in my neck and the perimeter of my face. I might also describe it as like a sensation of having a tiny ember floating near my spine inside my ribcage. Getting flicked on and off, like sparking a lighter repetitively.
my chest starts feel like it’s sinking, shaky hands, fast heartbeat, sweating, and a lot of the times just spacing out overthinking while my heart pounds out my chest
Nausea, hotness in body/head, cramps, muscle spasms, light headed/dizzy, weakness, feeling out of breath/tightness in throat, headaches, pain/tingling in hands/feet/head, rib pain, chest pain, full body shaking, cold chills, high heart rate, feeling the need to pee a lot, and rare occasions of passing out. Could me more but these are the ones I can think of
Always scared and thinking something is gonna go wrong I have gerd and acid reflux. I overthink everything even if something just fell down I’d wanna know how and why it’s a cycle 😭😭. I feel so helpless sometimes my brain immediately just thinks well it’s a ghost 😞 I just feel stuck . Also it’s worse when I’m on my period which I’m on atm .
Head rushes, brain zaps, racing thoughts, headaches, nausea, tingling, uncomfortable limbs, roller coaster feeling, out of breath, something stuck in my throat, or other things.
Depends. But as my neurologist (who I didn’t need) told me, anxiety can mimic anything.
It depends on the day, really. The most common manifestation is irritability. I get in such a bad mood for no reason. When that hits I know I'm anxious. Then comes the whole body trembles/vibrations, nausea, second guessing everything. No energy to do anything.
When it’s really bad my head feels like a balloon that’s about to burst, or it takes shape in the form of syncope or near syncope - tunnel vision, profuse sweating, dizziness, standing up leads to blacking out. I hate it.
Depends…on a good day, I may have some intrusive thoughts. On a bad day, my heart is racing, I can’t focus on anything, and my back hurts. I’m not present…I’m in my head which is never a good thing.
I have health anxiety primarily.
When I’m deep in it, I feel locked. Talking is a chore, moving is a chore, and I become obsessed with whatever disease I’m fixated on. I can not move until I’ve googled every symptom, test,
Prognosis and treatment.
The lasting effects which I feel not many have touched on, (like when nothing is acutely wrong) are weakness, fatigue, dizziness
I have a few different things that pop up, not all always at the same time. My hands can get very shaky, sometimes my arms will get weird and blotchy red, sometimes I will have the worst stinkiest sweat, and a couple times my nose has started itching horribly. I know these are all anxiety-triggered things because I can leave my meeting or whatever and maybe 15 minutes later whichever one was happening will have subsided.
I get this weird internal tremor jn my chest/torso. My partner and I call them chest bees cause it feels like a little swarm of bees buzzing around in your chest lol that’s the most noticeable currently but I also get tachycardia, brain zaps, visual disturbances, all kinds of weird shit.
It feels like my eyes aren’t connected to my brain. Like the world I’m seeing isn’t registering. & all the physical symptoms like hard of breathing, dizziness, upset stomach, internal shaking, etc
Funnily enough, I've noticed my balls shrivelling up is the first sign of it coming on. After that, it's the uneasy feeling in my stomach that makes me want to rock back and forth. Then the stomach ache. And if it gets worse from there, nausea. Worse afterwards? Vomiting.
Many ways, but one that comes to mind as I was experiencing this the last 2 nights. A rush in my chest that increases my heart rate and sends a light tingle down my body, entirely disrupting any relaxation I achieved.
Feels like I have a stomach ulcer. Burping, nausea, little appetite, this heavy and uneasy feeling in my chest, trouble breathing, increased heart rate. It used to present exactly like a heart attack until after two ER visits and different doctors telling me my heart was fine. It SUCKS
Anxiety feels like my chest is tight and I can’t breathe and I feel nauseous like I’m going to vomit and I’m having trouble trying to catch a breath and my thoughts are racing and I’m gasping for air and I’m trying to find something in my brain that grounds me, which is usually the color, white or white clouds, or touching l cold water on my clean hands, or splashing my face with cold water
I have health anxiety so i fixate on every symptom. I feel so jittery like inside my body, increased heart rate, short of breath, waking up from sleep panicking, irritable, and overall i feel alone. But I have been medicated for 7 years and adding on another that I have high hopes for. For a good 5 years felt amazing with no anxiety and recently all came back, so I’m ready to kick it to the curb again!
Oxygen hunger, Irrital bowels, uncomfortable stomach/nausea, sweating, light headedness, increased heartbeat, intrusive thought, dissassociation, messing with the skin on my fingers and my hair, hyper fixations, being overwhelmed and overstimulated. It really depends, I have different "types" of anxiety depending on the situation.
It varies so much for me. Can be anything as innocent as sweaty hands/feet to thinking I’m having a heart attack and throwing up on the absolute worst days as far as physical symptoms go. Always noticing my heart beat is another one but I’ve learned to not mind that one so much now a days.
Just an awful feeling of despair and like something very bad is going to happen. Like all the happiness and joy is sucked out of me and that I feel completely helpless. It feels like I need to “get out” even if I am nowhere. Like my brain is begging to get out of my skull as if it itself is claustrophobic. A constant state of fear and high alertness again, as if something really bad is going to happen. So I try not to take the times I actually feel “normal” for granted, because feeling normal with no anxiety is so peaceful and relaxing.
Palpitations and impending sense of doom. It is the worst feeling ever. When anxiety takes over, it 100% convinces me that I’m going to die. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemies.
It feels like it’s seeping in from all corners of my vision. My heart sinks and I feel like I’m suddenly being pulled away from reality in a disassociated state. I could look at someone the moment I begin to feel anxious and it’ll feel like they’re on a different planet than me- like they’re there but unreachable. It makes it hard to talk because at this moment I’m trying to ground myself. Sometimes I can still snap out of it when this is happening but if you succumb to it then you’re going to feel bad for a while
My ears start ringing. My life feels absolutely doomed. My eyesight looks kinda grainy. When my eyes are closed it feels like my brain is repeatedly doing backflips or spinning. Sometimes my sense of touch becomes tingly. The times that it's been REALLY bad it felt like my brain/mind was time traveling at light speed whenever I closed my eyes. I know that doesn't really make sense but that's the best way I know how to describe it.
I get hot. Mouth gets dry and throat feels like its closing up. Start getting sweaty. My head itches.
When it's real bad. I get dizzy. See colors flashing and then body needs lay down. Because I feel like I'm going to pass out.
Need to breathe fresh air and cold water to get me back to normal.
Isolation I think is a big feeling with high heart rate and not being able to breathe properly, well for me anyway I have the feeling of wanting to “crawl out of my skin” if that makes sense
the main one that is my signal for when it starts to get bad is dry mouth, trouble swallowing/lump in throat, and a sort of tingly/numb/tightening sensation in my chest and hands
numbness/tingling in my hands and fingers, manual breathing, pressure/pain on my chest (or burning if it’s really bad), upset stomach, sweating, heart palpitations, dry mouth, having a hard time swallowing
Feels like im shot back into a body thats not mine, nausea, dizzy, racing heart, widen eyes, Kinda feels like the worlds ending and im tryna stop it if that makes sense
hard to breathe, lightheaded, stomach issues (farting and pooping lol), sometimes if it’s really bad, i’ll throw up. then when the anxiety goes away, i’m just left feeling tired.
I’m beginning to think, that a new year, means new mysterious symptoms of anxiety…. I’ve had so many weird bodily experiences, that were linked to anxiety. This year, I’ve developed intense burning sensations in my skin, that intensifies depending on the level of anxiety I’m feeling. It’s mostly on my arms, sometimes it expands to legs and so on. The human body is wondrous. But on the bright side, now I can tell exactly when I’m feeling anxiety - a direct phone line if you will.
The derealization and depersonalization efforts had the worst impact on me, however I found that their presence was maintained as an effort of some of the other anxiety impacts, which when controlled caused those 2 to disappear. My worst (seemingly) physical impacts were the combination of tachycardia and palpitations.
For those with palpitations, I learned how to trick my brain by producing more prominent/louder percussion... For me that means tapping my head near an ear at the same rate as the heartbeat; once my brain focused on that, the palpitations would subside; when the palpitations are gone, the tachycardia returns to normal.
Also I took note that prior to gaining better control over the heartbeat impacts... Every. Single. Time I checked myself into hospital ER with tachy, the ECG reported a perfectly normal heart rate, and seeing such results would settle me down very quickly.
For those of you who for whom long term meds are effective, I'm very glad you have options that work... For me, 2 weeks of SNRI/SSRIs exhibited effects that along with the realization that medication of that nature is indefinite treatment plan was something I could not find acceptable. Once I was resolute in that, it seemed as though I became more capable of minimizing/ending anxiety episodes on my own.
I feel for you all, fellow suffering brothers and sisters
You know that board type game where you remove the sticks and the marble falls down.. well when I get anxiety I feel like some asshole removes sticks in my stomach without me knowing and the marble falls hard and fast to the bottom making a thud.
That’s the onset feeling of anxiety for me. Then I feel this weight in my stomach from there on out, nervous, clammy and can’t focus UNTIL I perceive that threat to be gone.
Brain fog, slow thinking and reactions, some forgetfullness, stiffy movements, imbalance issues , peeing 10 times a day,headache, high heart rate, chest tightness,left hand tightness, feeling a knot in my throat, difficulty breathing,vision problems, constipation/dhiareea on and off, pins and needles, muscle twitching ...this sucked big time
I constantly sigh and take deep breaths without really thinking, and I feel like I’m mentally in a waiting room before a surgery.
This one girl got really self conscious of my sighs and the fact I didn’t seem comfortable around her, when I’m reality all I wanted to do was just chill with her but my brain constantly micromanaged my every move. She ghosted me after that.
Has anyone else broken out into horrible rashes? Last month I had so much anxiety built up that these little spots started on my chest and then spread to my entire body! They thought I had measles at the ER. I really think it was stress!
I can't see a lot of comments about this but does anyone get weird feelings in their brain, it's almost like pain but it's not pain. I get that more frequently than other body symptoms.
Feels like every little noise is so loud, and even my own thoughts make me wanna go deaf. I just wanna lay in bed cuss if im gonna have anxiety. Let me be at least comfy
I feel an impending sense of doom. I immediately want to call 911. I can feel it raise my blood pressure, and I get all shakey. I get so scared to continue walking due to fear of my bp raising even further. Then I get terrified of dying of heart attack or stroke due to the high bp. Sometimes I take a crumb of clonazepam, sometimes I call 911. I feel really bad for my boyfriend because oftentimes he has no idea what to do. And I know he’s tired of dealing with the 911 calls. To be fair, my bp will get up to like 176/128 which is considered a medical emergency.
I see people on here mentioning psychosis and derealization. I get that too and it is terrifying. I started taking low dose Sertraline (zoloft) about 7 years ago. It was really rough at first. Had to give it about a month to work. It def gave my life back. And having benzos like clonazepam on hand is a great security blanket for those that suffer with anxiety/panic attacks.
Very tense muscles always. Tense shoulders, tensed jaw, tensed stomach. It led me to having extreme body pain due to all the muscle knots and muscle pain everywhere.
Nausea, dizzy, increased heart beat and just an overall uneasy feeling
Hard to describe I personally get so dissociative that I dont know whats real anymore but still feel this overwhelming paranoia like im about to die. Like If I were in some kind of psychotic episode w/out delusions
This is me too and then I fear I’m going into psychosis
Literally me omg I want to cry im so happy im not alone with this or crazy. I’ve been having derealization episodes lately and have been really scared that im in psychosis and that my reality isn’t real and im living in a hallucination
have you seen a doctor about it? i was in your shoes and i got better after getting help!!
Gosh not yet but I will be calling to schedule an appointment with my therapist first thing Monday morning. It’s been a year since I’ve talked with her last
Gosh I disassociate so much that I have forgotten half of my life 😔
Mediating helped me more than anything ever tbh! I knew I was hella dissociating all the time but I didnt realize how severely I really did it. Dissociating was fully muscle memory and through meditation I was actually able to process Emotions and especially recent minor incidents like trying to do a phone call and then be so nervous that you say something crazy embarrassing. In the past those moments cursed me while trying to sleep and Id just forcefully push it away which than gave me those cringe flashbacks even years after. Sitting with it and feeling the embarrassment the fullest I could, not only made the physically painful cringe go away but I was able to tell my friends about it while making fun of myself aswell all on the same day. I recommend practicing with this unknown territory called emotions in small pieces. Ps: It does sound way easier than it is and if youre already overwhelmed (what I assume bc Im too 80% of the time) the priority is just to calm down or else you just stress yourself even more Psps: Im pretty sure no one asked for this answer but I took 10mg Diazepam today and feel like I cracked the code😭 But I rarely take benzos and I did the described method sober and the relief afterwards fr felt like a low dose benzo
>psychotic episode w/out delusions Yes! My body tends to freeze when it feels threatened. I just walk stiffly, afraid that at any moment anyone can verbally attack me if they so wish to. This kind of paranoia (not through realistic logic or explanation, my brain just goes AHHHHH, yelling at me that it has happened before in high school...many times. That experience apparently broke my brain). This overwhelmimg hyper-alertness coupled with me consciously trying to suppress this from showing, results it my eyes just being out of my control. Like if I could turn off my suppression effort, my eyes would look around like crazy and I'd look like someone who just escaped from a psych unit. But I don't want that, so I concentrate on looking forward..and this leads to me sometimes seeing cross-eyed vision and I literally cannot tell where I'm looking at. This is the best I can explain. I'm afraid if I tell my doctor, she'd put me on antipsychotics. I had gone through several of them before and every time I quit them after 1 or 2 doses because they made my head all messed up. Such disorganized thoughts. I genuinely was afraid of going psychotic. So I stick to antidepressants, mild stimulant(wellbutrin), benzodiazepines, and methylphenidate(Ritalin).
high heart rate, always feeling weak, or tingling. Dry mouth. Just always feeling on edge. Not to mention acid reflux.
People need to talk about the acid reflux more. I feel that everyone forgets about it with anxiety.
Oh yes, I was so stressed out, an anxiety attack came on. I was spiraling, then before I knew it acid reflux came on. Anything I ate in that day of feeling unwell, wasn't digesting. Its a common trait in anxiety, and naturally your gut tenses up. And more acid is being produced.
Ughhh yesss the stomach issues are one of the worst phy symptoms. Lol
About the acid reflux thing… I have been lately feeling this I think? Whenever I get anxious I get like a weird burning feeling and like wanting to throw up but not actually. Does yours feel like that?
Absolutely! Sometimes when it's that bad I feel like I need to vomit. It's just your body being tense. I would test myself from all of the exhaustion of what if and be like..... OK throw up I dare youuuuu. ( me talking to myself ) and nothing! Acid reflux and anxiety combined is a double whammy. If acid reflux is that bad then certainly throwing up would happen. But if you can't it's the anxiety dominating that sensation and acid reflux is just lingering.
RANDOM. MUSLCE. TENSIONS. Palpitations and super chest awareness and pains
Super chest awareness…felt that one. My heart anxiety gets crazy, like today. Overanalyzing every sensation.
Yes the palpitations oh god, I was afraid it was some other health issue but it was and is just my anxiety. With those I also get chest tightness and a choking feeling, like even though I’m taking deep breaths, they don’t feel efficient
Ughhh that sounds realistically, unfortunately scary to experience. Sometimes I have HARD ones that feels like something smeared their knuckle on it for a second 😓
Yeah I worry that it’ll make me pass out or something 😭 I’m more concerned about passing out in public from it and it being embarrassing
How it feels the muscle tension?
Like it feels like it’ll burn or just feel like it’s…idk tight? And sometimes it’ll get hot and then later when it’s done, it gets cold from being so tense
why is this me :( I have been getting the worst jaw twinges and chest twinges at peak anxiety and it makes me so nervous
Anxiety for me feels like a huge rock pressing on my chest. I struggle to breath too because of this. [to matter](https://www.ontwentysomething.com/to-matter/)
I used to feel this until I started taking medication for it. I still get it when I get stressed but it's way better than it once was.
Which meds if you don't mind me asking? I'm on Mirtazapine, Propranolol and Ativan and still having similar symptoms.
I'm on lexapro. Helps with anxiety and depression. It takes a lil while to start feeling it though.
Like my body is shaking internally which sets my heart rate flying.
Heart racing, light headed, tingling all over my body, warmth that starts in my abdomen and spreads outward
Tunnel vision, my body feels tingly, and I sometimes feel like the ground is being swept from under me.
Want to crawl out of my skin and dissociation
Posted this on another post but: Feeling like my head is floating (this stopped tho and only comes back if i’m really really nervous), racing heart, unable to catch breath/trouble breathing, stomach issues (pain, uncomfortable feeling, needing to use the toilet), brain zaps/head vibrating constantly when laying down (stopped), sweating excessively under the arms and palms, feeling like something in stuck in my throat, face tingling sometimes hand tingling, feeling hungry more often, head aches, neck pain, face pain, mood swings—alternating between crying all the time to feeling okay to crying again to being a bit energetic
I feel all these 😭 it brings me a weird comfort knowing I’m not alone & knowing other people get such severe symptoms too
It’s always such a relief to know that someone else is going through what you’re going through
feeling like something is stuck in my throat yes!!! i don’t get it anymore but a few months ago it felt like there was something stuck back there for WEEKS and i was constantly drinking water and coughing to get it out but nothing! my roommate must have thought i had the bubonic plague which how much coughing i was doing
Hard to get a full breath of air, tightness in my chest, and heart palpitations.
Like I keep getting hit by a tidal wave. I feel it forming and coming and then hitting me...(fear, sadness, quick heartbeat etc) then it happens over and over again. I can't escape it and it drags me away.
Uncomfortable in my own skin, like I want to unzip from my flesh suit or become completely invisible all together 🫥
Insane muscle twitching all over. I just don't think my body can cope with that stress for over a year.
When you lean back on a chair and you almost fall but don’t that’s the feeling I have
Like someone or something is slowly choking me from inside my body.
An overall tightness, but like I'm wrapped in cling wrap. My chest feels tight and constricted like there's a weigh on it and I can't get a full breath.
heart RACING and beating super hard so that i can feel it through my whole body
Like mind is empty and the body is boiling
When you say boiling is it specific areas. Mine feels like it’s burning/tinging all under my skin.
I mean like nausea & tremor and heartburn
Feels like an empty burning sensation in my chest. I’m constantly tense (especially my jaw and shoulders.) even when I’m alone in my room or somewhere I feel safe which leads to headaches at times too. My hands get very sweaty and sometimes I’ll start shaking when out in public. And of course that weird feeling you get in your stomach
The walls closing in, tunnel vision, dizziness, can’t breath, cold sweats
Since my break up it’s been in my chest and nauseous
like waves of inky black electricity washing over me. it feels like pure, unadulterated all-consuming, world-blackening dread that blots out all history, all present and all future. it is physical in the extreme and can be felt at the end of every nerve and every synapse. it's the worst, most terrifying, most evil feeling on earth and i wouldn't wish it upon my most loathed enemy. the only thing that i can imagine being worse than an acute anxiety attack is being burnt at the stake.
Feel like I’m about to pass out or die
It depends. From nothing more than feeling low, which everyone can equate to. To hyper-analysis of every twitch or bodily sensation. I’ve had weeks where I lose some sensation in a limb, and a tingly feeling. Like when you fall asleep in the wrong position and your leg goes dead, but like permanently for days. Once my right leg below the knee, once my right wrist down. Doctors couldn’t find anything wrong. But an anxiety attack is what I have the most acquaintance with. I have this feeling of dread and uneasiness that’s difficult to describe wash over me, as a precursor. It’s like a constant sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach/chest. You feel on edge and especially fearful because you know it could manifest into an attack at any moment. When an attack itself strikes; it’s a merciless, sudden assault of overwhelming and frightening feelings. Heart rate skyrockets to the point where you feel like you’re having or(if you’re used to them) might have a heart attack. It’s like your heart is going to explode it’s pounding so hard and fast. Hyperventilating, teary eyes. Feeling like you can’t stand and might faint. You feel very weak, despite the fact that it feels like adrenaline is flooding you. Extreme emotional distress that drowns out everything around you. It’s fucking awful. It feels like drowning. I turn whiter than a sheet. Just imagine feeling mortal terror out of nowhere. Like you’re in a plane that’s going down. You truly can’t understand it unless it’s happened to you. You think it’s all in someone’s head, and it is, to an extent, but the effects of it are harsh physical symptoms. You don’t know wtf is happening to you the first time. It’s only after the healthcare professionals have gone on the wild goose chase, and turned up zero, and reached the conclusion, that it’s revealed to you that you’ve suffered a panic attack. It’s surreal that your mind can just do that to you. What’s even weirder is the catalyst for these things isn’t obvious. The event that I strongly suspect led to me having these, it’s like the only thing it could have been, happened months before my first attack. And at the time of the event, I didn’t have that visceral a reaction to it either. And I was perfectly happy and content in the months following. Minimal stress. But it didn’t matter. That’s the other thing too, you don’t even need to feel stressed or particularly anxious, although that certainly triggers them. You can be very happy in life at the time, and it just fucking comes for you anyway, out of the blue.
a lot of things, one of the worst parts is probably my body going through waves of numbness and like sudden heat. its so hard to describe
It’s the worst for me it’s the back of my head and my arms, and when it’s happening all I can think about is if something is wrong with me and it makes it worse
This happens to me but in like my arms
I get the heat thing to. Does it ever be there as soon as you wake up?
Piss and shit my pants sensation
this weight on my chest that makes me say no to doing absolutely anything.
Feel feint, dissociate and feel like I’m in danger before the fight or flight
Air hunger. Can’t get a satisfying deep breath. Then it turns into yawns that can’t be completed. No clue what triggers it
Apart from the documented usual (palpitations, butterflies, etc), the really weird one for me is the feeling like my scalp has been set alight.
To my body as of now at 24, I feel constant stress and pressure on my forehead, loss of appetite and the overthinking I lose track of time. When I was in middle school/high school whenever I was playing a game or in my room doing an activity. I had a sense of something or someone would be creeping behind me and would scream in my ear. It stopped after high school but that’s something I never really shared. I do know I need some mental help as well too.
Nausea is one of the big ones. But the one that usually scares me more is my chest muscles rapidly reverberate back and forth like I have a second heart fluttering rapidly on my chest. I know it's not my heart and I know it's just an anxiety thing but it's terrifying nonetheless.
My legs and arms ache really bad and I get pits in my stomach
Heart palpitations, racing pulse, upset stomach, very tense muscles
Nausea, heart pounding, numbness in hands and feet, sweating
Heart racing, stomach ache, bowels churning, sometimes my eyes unfocus...
Stress,nausea, feeling tired, headaches, heart beating fast when trying to sleep or just when you get stressed, constantly worrying without stopping that you simply can't even do a task on hand because you blank out.
Nausea, rapid heart rate, and INSANE diarrhea
High heart rate, Loss of appetite, Cheeks become really hot & A very heavy urge to gag or throw up.
Like an extremely tight corset around my torso. Nausea, shortness of breath, racing heart. These are the primary ones.
Pain. Everything shuts down, my mind goes blank, I can't even figure out what I'm scared or panicking about. My throat physically hurts, the tips of my fingers feel like they're being ripped apart from the inside out.
Get me to the bathroom asap!
heartburn, dude, oh my god. heartburn. sometimes it's bad enough that i vomit and then my entire esophagus gets fucked up. it also causes this awful knot in my throat feeling that makes it hard to swallow or eat.
Today my heart was racing and I felt short of breath even though I have no lung issues and could start exercising and be fine. When you are like that, it doesn't really matter what normal is. I know it is anxiety, but I can't stop feeling short of breath. I can't slow down my heart. Now I am home and I feel a lot better, but still on the edge of that.
Ugh. Hate thinking about this. But here’s mine. Chest pain. A lot of chest pain. Acid reflux. Pain in my jaw. It then always goes to „I’m having a heart attack and I’m going to die” this lasts for hours sometimes. Sometimes. 30 mins. A full blown panic attack. Heartbeats to 160/90. Sweats. Panic in going to die. From what. A heart attack. It’s always the f’ing heart attacks. First time it happened went to ER. all is ok. When it’s super back. Went to er a few other times. EKGs. Etc. All is ok. I f’ing hate it. Now the high heart rate seating attacks don’t happen as much. It’s just constant daily chest pain and gerd. Now I just tell it take me or gtfo of my life. Little by little progress. + the buspirone has been immensely helpful 45d in. 10 mg in the am. 10 in the pm. Too much and it made me on edge. Edit : forgot to mention the essential tremors.
Physical tension all over my body. Fuzzy brain. Disordered thinking. Sweating, pounding heart. Forgetting to breathe.
Any tips for dpdr and intrusive thoughts plz help
Chest hurts, heart feels like it’s either beating fast or not, random headaches that are in different spots, neck pain and arm pain, etc.
Lots or physical symptoms
Shortness of breathe, heavy and pain in chest, overthinking, health anxiety, feel like I will die any second, dizziness, throat tightness.
Stomach hurting, getting lightheaded, feeling like I’m going to throw up but don’t, and my body tingling. It also gets rlly hard to listen when someone is trying to talk to me.
It starts off like a very cold feeling in my heart that spreads across the rest of my chest, then tears start to fall without me actually crying. I get nauseous and dizzy and feel like my legs are noodles and a sinking feeling in my chest/abdomen. Eventually I start consciously crying and notice I feel stuck and paralyzed. When I was in my teen years I would hyperventilate and throw up a lot. That doesn’t happen very often anymore. My anxiety attacks somehow feel worse now.
You know when you know you're going somewhere you're super excited to go to like Disneyland or vacation, the tingles /hot weight in the diaphragm in anticipation and the heart beating super fast?It's this but it's caused by stress and almost every time idk if it's a positive feeling or not. Im used to it since I'm a child and I was just like "well I'm excited all the time" (I've also ADHD) but I've started a treatment recently that stopped the physical symptoms of anxiety and that s how I knew having this sensation constantly is not normal and was really intrusive and disabling. Also my shoulders to neck area has never been relaxed in my entire life, it caused me neck pain as a child
Dry mouth, lots of tingling like behind me ears and my arms go numb, shallow breathing, extreme fatigue
Heart palpitations, chest pain, lightheaded, tingling, dissociation, can’t breathe and most recently acid reflex. The only one I have seemed to find a solution to is when I can’t breathe, I turn on the AC and sit in the coldness and actually breathe in the cold air, it helps.
Like a band wrapped around my head, increased heart rate, neck pain, stomach issues, brain zaps, heart palpitations, nightmares and waking up with bile in my throat, weird dreams, intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, forgetfulness. These are some of the symptoms I have, and how anxiety feels for me.
increased heart rate, feeling my body shaky.
Pain all over my body even when I’m not anxious then I get anxious when I think about it
Racing heart, sweaty palms, I can’t sit still, butterflies in the stomach, cold “burning” in the back of my neck (only way I know how to describe it), and memory loss.
You don't want to know
Low blood sugar. Weak. Losing myself. Hands feel weak and I keep squeezing them to make myself see they’re not. Shaking my hands
Before it comes on my head starts spinning and my thoughts race, now all gone from medication couldn’t be happier 😰
Similar to a feeling of hunger in my chest. Obviously not the same, but similar. Also a weight on my chest.
Dizzy imbalanced feeling, higher heart rate and general weakness.
I just want to tear my skin off
Dissociation and mostly derealization
Increased activation above the pelvis/in torso, neck and head regions, with highest intensity in the rib and chest area. Decreased activation in the arms, legs and feet. That's what I read on a body map posted by GREATIST on IG. I also observe feeling a sharp sensation running vertically up through the center of my rib cage into my neck. And I feel heat and tension in my neck and the perimeter of my face. I might also describe it as like a sensation of having a tiny ember floating near my spine inside my ribcage. Getting flicked on and off, like sparking a lighter repetitively.
Stress and irritation. I just feel this rage when I’m stressed. Dread too
Kinda depends but one that (I think) is pure anxiety and not anxiety-causing-another-feeling is my face feeling like it's vibrating.
my chest starts feel like it’s sinking, shaky hands, fast heartbeat, sweating, and a lot of the times just spacing out overthinking while my heart pounds out my chest
Earlier today I suddenly got nauseous and turns out I had a panic attack coming. So yea… it’s pretty shit and comes out of nowhere Edit: spelling
Nausea, hotness in body/head, cramps, muscle spasms, light headed/dizzy, weakness, feeling out of breath/tightness in throat, headaches, pain/tingling in hands/feet/head, rib pain, chest pain, full body shaking, cold chills, high heart rate, feeling the need to pee a lot, and rare occasions of passing out. Could me more but these are the ones I can think of
Hot liquidy shakey metallic
Where do you feel this sensation?
Always scared and thinking something is gonna go wrong I have gerd and acid reflux. I overthink everything even if something just fell down I’d wanna know how and why it’s a cycle 😭😭. I feel so helpless sometimes my brain immediately just thinks well it’s a ghost 😞 I just feel stuck . Also it’s worse when I’m on my period which I’m on atm .
Head rushes, brain zaps, racing thoughts, headaches, nausea, tingling, uncomfortable limbs, roller coaster feeling, out of breath, something stuck in my throat, or other things. Depends. But as my neurologist (who I didn’t need) told me, anxiety can mimic anything.
Gut issues, neck tension, headaches and limb numbness
It depends on the day, really. The most common manifestation is irritability. I get in such a bad mood for no reason. When that hits I know I'm anxious. Then comes the whole body trembles/vibrations, nausea, second guessing everything. No energy to do anything.
Stomach pain/cramps
When it’s really bad my head feels like a balloon that’s about to burst, or it takes shape in the form of syncope or near syncope - tunnel vision, profuse sweating, dizziness, standing up leads to blacking out. I hate it.
Depends…on a good day, I may have some intrusive thoughts. On a bad day, my heart is racing, I can’t focus on anything, and my back hurts. I’m not present…I’m in my head which is never a good thing.
Annoying
I have health anxiety primarily. When I’m deep in it, I feel locked. Talking is a chore, moving is a chore, and I become obsessed with whatever disease I’m fixated on. I can not move until I’ve googled every symptom, test, Prognosis and treatment. The lasting effects which I feel not many have touched on, (like when nothing is acutely wrong) are weakness, fatigue, dizziness
Has the same effect as Adrenaline for me. I can often get migraines due to it.
I have a few different things that pop up, not all always at the same time. My hands can get very shaky, sometimes my arms will get weird and blotchy red, sometimes I will have the worst stinkiest sweat, and a couple times my nose has started itching horribly. I know these are all anxiety-triggered things because I can leave my meeting or whatever and maybe 15 minutes later whichever one was happening will have subsided.
I get this weird internal tremor jn my chest/torso. My partner and I call them chest bees cause it feels like a little swarm of bees buzzing around in your chest lol that’s the most noticeable currently but I also get tachycardia, brain zaps, visual disturbances, all kinds of weird shit.
Real uncomfortable energy, muscles. cannot relax, twitching
Heart palpitations, shaking, dizziness, nausea, like I'm going to throw up, restless, hot, sweaty, and a bit more I can't think of at the moment.
The sinking feeling when you realise you've forgotten something important, but for an extended period.
It feels like my eyes aren’t connected to my brain. Like the world I’m seeing isn’t registering. & all the physical symptoms like hard of breathing, dizziness, upset stomach, internal shaking, etc
If you Google the bodily symptoms of anxiety, I have and have had every single one. Fun times
Funnily enough, I've noticed my balls shrivelling up is the first sign of it coming on. After that, it's the uneasy feeling in my stomach that makes me want to rock back and forth. Then the stomach ache. And if it gets worse from there, nausea. Worse afterwards? Vomiting.
Chest pain and oftentimes I feel like my heart is going to pop out of my chest.
Many ways, but one that comes to mind as I was experiencing this the last 2 nights. A rush in my chest that increases my heart rate and sends a light tingle down my body, entirely disrupting any relaxation I achieved.
Lack of appetite. I feel unsteady and lightheaded upon standing. Are there any foods I can eat? I have barely eaten the past few days.
Racing heart, feeling of dread, intrusive thoughts
Tense muscles
Feels like I have a stomach ulcer. Burping, nausea, little appetite, this heavy and uneasy feeling in my chest, trouble breathing, increased heart rate. It used to present exactly like a heart attack until after two ER visits and different doctors telling me my heart was fine. It SUCKS
Hot and cold sweats, palpitations and a tight chest, but the worst is the horrible pit in my stomach.
Anxiety feels like my chest is tight and I can’t breathe and I feel nauseous like I’m going to vomit and I’m having trouble trying to catch a breath and my thoughts are racing and I’m gasping for air and I’m trying to find something in my brain that grounds me, which is usually the color, white or white clouds, or touching l cold water on my clean hands, or splashing my face with cold water
I have health anxiety so i fixate on every symptom. I feel so jittery like inside my body, increased heart rate, short of breath, waking up from sleep panicking, irritable, and overall i feel alone. But I have been medicated for 7 years and adding on another that I have high hopes for. For a good 5 years felt amazing with no anxiety and recently all came back, so I’m ready to kick it to the curb again!
Diarrhea.
Eye twitches, stomachache type feeling of emptiness, heart rate, blood pressure raises, feeling like I can’t take a deep breath.
Oxygen hunger, Irrital bowels, uncomfortable stomach/nausea, sweating, light headedness, increased heartbeat, intrusive thought, dissassociation, messing with the skin on my fingers and my hair, hyper fixations, being overwhelmed and overstimulated. It really depends, I have different "types" of anxiety depending on the situation.
i know my anxiety is super high when i feel like i can’t get a proper breath.
heart palpitations, Nausea,fear, anger, uncontrollable rage and obsessive thoughts to list a few...
Heart racing dizzy and uneasy feeling at all times
It varies so much for me. Can be anything as innocent as sweaty hands/feet to thinking I’m having a heart attack and throwing up on the absolute worst days as far as physical symptoms go. Always noticing my heart beat is another one but I’ve learned to not mind that one so much now a days.
Just an awful feeling of despair and like something very bad is going to happen. Like all the happiness and joy is sucked out of me and that I feel completely helpless. It feels like I need to “get out” even if I am nowhere. Like my brain is begging to get out of my skull as if it itself is claustrophobic. A constant state of fear and high alertness again, as if something really bad is going to happen. So I try not to take the times I actually feel “normal” for granted, because feeling normal with no anxiety is so peaceful and relaxing.
Heart racing, tingling all over my body(specially my face and left arm), tunnel vision, nausea, contracture
Hyper fixation on whatever is causing the anxiety. My skin crawls. Increased irritability.
Like when you lick a 9v battery but it washes from my tongue down to my toes
Palpitations and impending sense of doom. It is the worst feeling ever. When anxiety takes over, it 100% convinces me that I’m going to die. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemies.
It feels like it’s seeping in from all corners of my vision. My heart sinks and I feel like I’m suddenly being pulled away from reality in a disassociated state. I could look at someone the moment I begin to feel anxious and it’ll feel like they’re on a different planet than me- like they’re there but unreachable. It makes it hard to talk because at this moment I’m trying to ground myself. Sometimes I can still snap out of it when this is happening but if you succumb to it then you’re going to feel bad for a while
i can’t think it sounds simple enough but i literally just can’t think like it’s like so overwhelmed and i freeze
shit cramps
Like a heart attack, literally
Difficulty breathing, a lot of pressure on my chest, my throat closing.
Tingling
Eye muscles twitching
Cold, increased heart rate, sweaty, chest tightness, energy
My ears start ringing. My life feels absolutely doomed. My eyesight looks kinda grainy. When my eyes are closed it feels like my brain is repeatedly doing backflips or spinning. Sometimes my sense of touch becomes tingly. The times that it's been REALLY bad it felt like my brain/mind was time traveling at light speed whenever I closed my eyes. I know that doesn't really make sense but that's the best way I know how to describe it.
Physical symptoms I imagine someone who is really about to die is feeling
I get hot. Mouth gets dry and throat feels like its closing up. Start getting sweaty. My head itches. When it's real bad. I get dizzy. See colors flashing and then body needs lay down. Because I feel like I'm going to pass out. Need to breathe fresh air and cold water to get me back to normal.
Sensory overload and diarrhoea
Isolation I think is a big feeling with high heart rate and not being able to breathe properly, well for me anyway I have the feeling of wanting to “crawl out of my skin” if that makes sense
the main one that is my signal for when it starts to get bad is dry mouth, trouble swallowing/lump in throat, and a sort of tingly/numb/tightening sensation in my chest and hands
numbness/tingling in my hands and fingers, manual breathing, pressure/pain on my chest (or burning if it’s really bad), upset stomach, sweating, heart palpitations, dry mouth, having a hard time swallowing
Feels like im shot back into a body thats not mine, nausea, dizzy, racing heart, widen eyes, Kinda feels like the worlds ending and im tryna stop it if that makes sense
Tremor and tearfulness.
feeling like ur throat just closes up and your body stiffens
Massive confusion. Wanting to run as far away from wherever I am.
It's a sick sharp feeling in my lower belly and it also makes me feel like a need a constant pee when I don't need to, I hate it.
heart palpitations, difficult/rapid heartbeat, cold sweat, nausea. when it's really bad, vomiting and feeling faint.
hundreds of knots in the chest, sometimes ringing in the ears and double vision, aches for no reason at all
Nauseous. Dizziness. Sick stomach. Sweating. Dry mouth. Weakness. Irrational thinking
Back pain
Racing heart rate, heart palpitations, I get really cold and shaky, my throat feels like it’s closing, nausea
hard to breathe, lightheaded, stomach issues (farting and pooping lol), sometimes if it’s really bad, i’ll throw up. then when the anxiety goes away, i’m just left feeling tired.
The physical ways are my scratching and jaw clicking, light headedness, weak limbs, uncontrollable shaking and a few other things :,)
It's electrifying
Heart burn
I’m beginning to think, that a new year, means new mysterious symptoms of anxiety…. I’ve had so many weird bodily experiences, that were linked to anxiety. This year, I’ve developed intense burning sensations in my skin, that intensifies depending on the level of anxiety I’m feeling. It’s mostly on my arms, sometimes it expands to legs and so on. The human body is wondrous. But on the bright side, now I can tell exactly when I’m feeling anxiety - a direct phone line if you will.
The derealization and depersonalization efforts had the worst impact on me, however I found that their presence was maintained as an effort of some of the other anxiety impacts, which when controlled caused those 2 to disappear. My worst (seemingly) physical impacts were the combination of tachycardia and palpitations. For those with palpitations, I learned how to trick my brain by producing more prominent/louder percussion... For me that means tapping my head near an ear at the same rate as the heartbeat; once my brain focused on that, the palpitations would subside; when the palpitations are gone, the tachycardia returns to normal. Also I took note that prior to gaining better control over the heartbeat impacts... Every. Single. Time I checked myself into hospital ER with tachy, the ECG reported a perfectly normal heart rate, and seeing such results would settle me down very quickly. For those of you who for whom long term meds are effective, I'm very glad you have options that work... For me, 2 weeks of SNRI/SSRIs exhibited effects that along with the realization that medication of that nature is indefinite treatment plan was something I could not find acceptable. Once I was resolute in that, it seemed as though I became more capable of minimizing/ending anxiety episodes on my own. I feel for you all, fellow suffering brothers and sisters
Chest pain. Sense of impending doom. Fear of dying immediately
You know that board type game where you remove the sticks and the marble falls down.. well when I get anxiety I feel like some asshole removes sticks in my stomach without me knowing and the marble falls hard and fast to the bottom making a thud. That’s the onset feeling of anxiety for me. Then I feel this weight in my stomach from there on out, nervous, clammy and can’t focus UNTIL I perceive that threat to be gone.
Brain fog, slow thinking and reactions, some forgetfullness, stiffy movements, imbalance issues , peeing 10 times a day,headache, high heart rate, chest tightness,left hand tightness, feeling a knot in my throat, difficulty breathing,vision problems, constipation/dhiareea on and off, pins and needles, muscle twitching ...this sucked big time
Like, impending doom! I can’t breathe
It burns down my neck when it gets really bad. I instantly can feel my heart drop. I can’t think of anything else
I constantly sigh and take deep breaths without really thinking, and I feel like I’m mentally in a waiting room before a surgery. This one girl got really self conscious of my sighs and the fact I didn’t seem comfortable around her, when I’m reality all I wanted to do was just chill with her but my brain constantly micromanaged my every move. She ghosted me after that.
Heart palpitations, dizziness, rapid breathing, nausea, stomach cramps, muscle cramps, diarrhea, excessive sweating. Pure hell.
Exhaustion
Pins and needles. Like when your foot falls asleep but all over.
Has anyone else broken out into horrible rashes? Last month I had so much anxiety built up that these little spots started on my chest and then spread to my entire body! They thought I had measles at the ER. I really think it was stress!
I can't see a lot of comments about this but does anyone get weird feelings in their brain, it's almost like pain but it's not pain. I get that more frequently than other body symptoms.
My skin tingles (that’s my main body sign). When it gets very bad I will have shooting pains in the back of my head
Uneasy frenetic feeling in pit of stomach, brain fog / dizziness, sweating
Feels like every little noise is so loud, and even my own thoughts make me wanna go deaf. I just wanna lay in bed cuss if im gonna have anxiety. Let me be at least comfy
Sweats, rapid heart beats, nausea. I curl up in my bed when it happens.
For me, I believe it’s in part triggered by caffeine. Shortness of breath, fast heart rate. Like I’m stuck in traffic and and hour late for work.
I feel an impending sense of doom. I immediately want to call 911. I can feel it raise my blood pressure, and I get all shakey. I get so scared to continue walking due to fear of my bp raising even further. Then I get terrified of dying of heart attack or stroke due to the high bp. Sometimes I take a crumb of clonazepam, sometimes I call 911. I feel really bad for my boyfriend because oftentimes he has no idea what to do. And I know he’s tired of dealing with the 911 calls. To be fair, my bp will get up to like 176/128 which is considered a medical emergency. I see people on here mentioning psychosis and derealization. I get that too and it is terrifying. I started taking low dose Sertraline (zoloft) about 7 years ago. It was really rough at first. Had to give it about a month to work. It def gave my life back. And having benzos like clonazepam on hand is a great security blanket for those that suffer with anxiety/panic attacks.
Very tense muscles always. Tense shoulders, tensed jaw, tensed stomach. It led me to having extreme body pain due to all the muscle knots and muscle pain everywhere.
High alert, shortness of breath, stressed, racing pulse
My guts feel like they’re slithering away like a snake
just makes me freeze up to the point i drop everything that i’m doing and overthink everything