Off day

[Lindsey14]

I feel spacy, unreal, and emotionless rn. I'm just really tired of feeling this way, I feel like I'm just crazy anymore....I just want I to stop

[Krazie]

Lindsey, lets be crazy together. Experience tells me that all crisis situations come to an end. But, dang, where's the end?

[Lindsey14 in reply to Krazie]

Ikr

[saturn2k]

Hi Lindsey14, its such an awful way to feel. Would love to know more about yourself without giving away your privacy. Maybe your age ? What's happening in your life that may contribute to your feeling this way. It sounds like you are having a lot of anxiety, which is awful when it feels like it's never ending.

In one of my previous posts I listed the usual symptoms of anxiety and panic, I will paste it for you :

' An anxiety or panic attack often comes on suddenly, with symptoms peaking within 10 minutes. For doctors to diagnose a panic attack, they look for at least four of the following signs: sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, a choking sensation, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, fear of losing your mind, fear of dying, feeling hot or cold, numbness or tingling, a racing heart (heart palpitations), and feeling unusually detached from yourself.'

Finally one day I accepted that nothing unusual was going on here, nothing dangerous was going on and that my symptoms were nothing new.... I wasn't unique...... in fact it meant that I wasn't alone either. I used to get very cold, even if it was in summer and found that a warm shower or a heat pad on my chest helped me no end.

In the meantime, try the Calming Breath technique which has actually eased me out of a full blown panic attack in the past.

Take a long, slow breath in through your nose, first filling your lower lungs,
then your upper lungs.
Hold your breath to the count of "three." 
Exhale slowly through pursed lips, while you relax the muscles in your face, jaw, shoulders, and stomach. 
Do this until you feel relief. Can take up to ten minutes ... just give it a try. I can get relief within a few minutes. I often have a nice warm shower which helps me.

There is help out there. Takes courage to seek it out. This is a good step hearing from others. I had therapy for a few years, only because I had PTSD/ panic/ anxiety disorder and OCD. So if someone like me can get help and get through to the other side ANYONE can !! I for one have not had a panic attack in over four years... I still get the occasional anxiety attacks, but I can manage them and they don't scare the hell out of me like they used to. I use the breathing technique every single day and lots of times during the day as it's nice to feel the oxygen going right down to bottom of my lungs.