Jumping out of my skin with anxiety

[fionaxox]

Hi everyone i've had a very stressful few weeks due to health issues and my anxiety is through the roof. I just wondered if anybody else has suffered with this symptom i have been having that is particularly unpleasant. When i feel a rush of severe anxiety i get this awful feeling of actually wanting to jump out of my own skin and body, kind of like my body is just about to completely flip out of control and its really frightening which just adds more fuel to the already sky high anxiety! Has anybody else had this and is there any way of keeping calm through it? Thanks

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Hi.. your not alone.. I feel like this everyday.. my physical symptoms are reallybad. I get hot flushes pain and weakness in arms legs and back, muncle twitches all over my body. It's horrible living with health anxiety. I'm fed up:*(

[Bluswife]

Yea that's the, fight or flight response I know how u feel I try to breath thru it

[Busstop1956]

Yes. I am feeling this now. Its an awful feeling that comes over me and I literally feel like jumping out of my skin. I made an appointment with my doctor because I do not know if this is related to possibly starting menopause. This combined with anxiety and depression, I feel literally crazy/unstable. I am crying uncontrollably, and I am unable to cope and decompartmentalize anything in my life at the moment. I am eating a lot as if to fill a void, and that is compacting everything. My weight has soared, and I am miserable, scared, uneasy, enraged, etc. all balled up into one. How to get through it. Take a deep breath and breathe. Get up and take a walk outside. I did this today because I have not moved in months. One thing that helps subside the feeling is to complete a small task like cleaning up the kitchen or putting away laundry. It feels like I took 1 monkey off my back and gives some control back to myself. When it hits in the middle of the night, there is not much I can do except breathe and watch some tv till I fall asleep. I wake up about 10x + a night and this is prob part of the issue as well. Sleep deprivation affects everything.