Hello all. Just found and joined this group today. I'm a 30-something woman who recently (within the past few months) developed severe anxiety. It tends to come in attacks that involve a lot of shaking, dizziness, accelerated breathing, and finally an inability to stand/walk. Typically the onset is social, when I have company at my house, or go out on my own (in which case the "social" aspect are folks walking or driving around me).
I've always had low-level anxiety, and had my first panic attack years ago in grad school. Until this year I had not had additional ones; now they are a regular feature, and it has hampered my ability to work, to travel, to do basic things like shopping by myself. I'm trying to combat it with good nutrition, meditation, stretching, etc., but nothing has been very successful yet.
I'm looking forward to learning with and from you as a community.