It’s happening again

[apayett24]

I feel like I’m in a dream like this is not real I been feeling so panic and I sweat so much my head feels weird too and pressure in my chest is back my mind keeps telling me at any moment ur going to die that something is going to happen I never leave my home ever

[StokedMustache]

Sounds like derealization. That was one symptom I struggled with during the peak of my health anxiety. What you don’t want to do is keep checking in and focusing on why you feel like you’re dreaming or why everything seems off around you. It’s a frustrating symptom cause it’s kinda hard to describe. Essentially everything looks normal but it’s like there’s this invisible filter that you can’t describe other than you feel like you’re dreaming. You’re brain is overwhelmed with all the anxiety and stressful thinking that it is overloaded and partially shuts down so it can take a break. Pretty common among anxiety sufferers. It’s a hard thing to not obsess about but the less you think about it the quicker it goes away. Just know you’re definitely not alone. These thoughts and feelings you are feeling are SO common and follow a very familiar pattern. I absolutely can relate to the feeling that you could die any minute. No fun. Don’t think about the what if’s they will do nothing but bring you down. If you’ve had anxiety for awhile, think of all the many symptoms you’ve had... has anything ever come of them? Most likely not. That’s what gives me comfort, is knowing that out of all the symptoms/health problems I’ve believed I’ve had over the past ten years absolutely NOTHING has come out of any of it. No heart attacks, no deadly arrhythmias, no brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, kidney failure etc... Don’t google, it spirals!!! For me I would feel a symptom, google it to try to find benign cause that explains it away and end up finding multiple terminal cause for the symptom, most of which are extremely rare and completely ignore the fact that the benign cause is by far the most common reason for the symptom.

[apayett24 in reply to StokedMustache]

It’s just so hard I’m so scared that I’m laying in my floor watching movies on my phone hoping I don’t die

[StokedMustache in reply to apayett24]

I can completely relate. It’s a hard thing to kick. Just think, how much are you enjoying each day worrying about dying. Probably not at all. It’s a miserable thing. If you’re anything like me, we sit and worry about our biggest fears and in return we end up basically just living them out every single day even though we are perfectly fine other than having these fears. I thought ten years ago I would be dead pretty much everyday until not long ago. I look back and it’s devastating how much I lost to the what if thinking.

[apayett24 in reply to StokedMustache]

I haven’t left my house in 4 years

[StokedMustache in reply to apayett24]

There’s nothing wrong with that if that’s what makes you comfortable. There are things I avoid as well, doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. If at some point going outside is something you do want to do. Make a goal to do a little at a time in ways YOU are comfortable with. Hopefully over time it will calm your fears.

[apayett24 in reply to StokedMustache]

I just don’t like this I was doing good a few weeks ago where I could get out of my room but now it’s hard to get out of the floor

[StokedMustache in reply to apayett24]

Exposure to what you fear could be a good thing. I got so sick of worrying about having a heart attack that I literally sprinted around my block multiple times just to prove to myself that I wouldn’t and if I did so be it. Will take effort and a strong desire.

[apayett24 in reply to StokedMustache]

But my fear is so big

[Charbey]

Apayett24.... Hope your feeling better. I was very anxious all week. Then I was having a good morning and afternoon and out of the blue as I'm laying down I got a wave of adrenaline and felt a little woozy.

[apayett24 in reply to Charbey]

I get dizzy

[Charbey in reply to apayett24]

Do you get dizzy out of the blue?

[apayett24 in reply to Charbey]

Ya sometimes

[apayett24]

Ya sometimes