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Anxiety out of nowhere...?

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I was having such a decent feeling day compared to how I have been feeling the last three to four Weeks. Then I'm laying here watching TV and my heart starts racing,chest hurts, and breathing feels shallow. I did some deep breathing and it helped but it keeps coming back and now My dizziness and headache set in. I did do a lot today because I was feeling good enough too. Thinking about it now I did get anxious (not too bad) about some of the stuff I had to do in an attempt to better my situation but it made me uncomfortable and I went back on it but made me feel better and relieved. So, I don't understand why that would give me anxiety. I also was a little worried about when I tried to clean some moldy pants that belong to my brother because of the spores getting in me and making me sick but I researched and the white mold is harmless but can make you react like allergies or asthma, if you have it already. What sucks too is I ended up throwing the pants away like I wanted to in the first place. So, I don't know if in the back of my mind I'm still paranoid about if the mold will make me sick. or just the whole day is hitting me. It just sucks because I felt like I was finely feeling good and the week was going to be good. Anyone else feel like anxiety just hits you from the day once you start relaxing instead of in the moment?

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I used to get Panic attacks that seemed to come out of nowhere. I remember one day years ago when I had 3 small children, My Mother and sister were in my house talking and I was doing something and it felt like one minute I was fine and the next I started having these awful feelings that escalated from nowhere.

I have recently had a bout of anxiety that is nowhere like the panic I used to have, as I now take low dose antidepressants all the time. However I can still get anxious when I feel overwhelmed about something. This has not happened in a long time though so over the years I have learned some coping techniques.

Panic that seems to come from nowhere, actually does come from somewhere. You are doing all the right things to help yourself from what you wrote. Usually panic starts from having a lot of stress in your life where you feel you cannot cope, but you keep trying to cope. Eventually the body through Panic stops you. The body becomes sensitised and alarmed and stays in that sensitised state and when we add fearful thoughts which naturally happens in response to panic, it keeps us sensitised. This sensitisation takes a while to calm down. It does help for us to be able to tell ourselves that we can do something positive because it does make us feel a sense of achievement but we also need to add some compassion to our self talk, like "It's ok to feel the way I am feeling and I know this is temporary but while I feel like this It's ok."

What we tend to do when feeling Panicky is to think thoughts like "Why am I feeling like this?" We try so hard to make sense of what is happening instead of accepting that our thought are irrational at the moment. The anxiety makes us irrational. Practice accepting all the crazy thoughts that come, our way. Practice telling yourself that "It's ok, it will pass eventually." try not to add more fearful thoughts to your already sensitised body. It takes practice. It took me a long time, but have patience with yourself. Keep being kind with yourself.

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Tiffanyy in reply to gillym

Hello,

Thank you for your kind words and sharing. i've had anxiety for 10 years and I've learned to cope decently but sometimes its just bad and makes no sense. Yes, I sometimes do positive self talk. I tell myself I am well, I've been here before and its okay, it'll pass. And definitely try my hardest to get the worrisome, fearful thoughts out and gone just as far as they come. A lot of the time I just breathe deep and try to distract myself with watching something or reading, which distractions help me greatly. Thank you again, your message helped, you're very knowledgeable. I hope your feeling well.

-Tiffany

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