Has anyone felt this

[moises602]

Hey everyone I do have a history of anxiety and Derealisation lately I’ve been getting this feeling like my arms ore hands are going to stop working first it started with me thinking like how does my brain know how to tell my body what to do and Lately I’m like what if my hands stop working and since I’ve been having this heavy feelings in my hands like it feels awkward to do things but I still feel and everything my strength is there I went to the we yesterday he said it can be just anxiety but he wasn’t concerned he gave me Ativan to calm down it did help me calm down but I still kinda felt like they where not there but i was calm the feeling wasn’t as bad

Just wanted to ask has anyone ever felt this

My psychiatrist usto tell me about being hyper aware of my body

[Lbk64]

Hi moises,

I think these things get worse when we pay more attention to the feeling.

I know with myself, I have this feeling in my legs. I feel like they're not going to allow me to walk anymore, I start tripping and not being able to put one foot in front of the other. It IS just the thoughts about the feelings feeding the anxiety. When I get busy and don't give it energy by focusing on it, it doesn't happen.

Our minds are wonderful and mysterious things.

[moises602 in reply to Lbk64]

Thanks for your response

[designguy]

Yes, it's quite common, especially with people who are suffering from health anxiety. Your psychiatrist is correct about your being hyper-aware of your body/physical sensations and your anxious mind blows it all totally out of proportion then you start ruminating about it and the anxious cycle continues. It's a habit and a distorted means of trying to stay in control. It's also common for people with anxiety to have it change to different types, for instance general anxiety becomes health anxiety, health anxiety becomes agoraphobia, etc...

The way to recover is to educate yourself about health anxiety, learn to accept the anxious feelings and thoughts and surrender to them. Learn to surrender to life and death and accept what you truly have real control over.

A good book to read is: "It's not all in your head" by Gordon Asmundson and Steven Taylor. Also, any books by Dr. Claire Weekes are very helpful. They're available on Amazon as a kindle and hardcopy version.

I had social anxiety disorder and health anxiety disorder for years. Once I recovered from the social anxiety, recovering from the health anxiety was much easier.