For the past 2 years I have been feeling an intense sense of dread in my stomach from the moment I wake up in the morning to the time I fall asleep at night, every single day. It appears completely contentless and doesn’t change depending on my thoughts or what’s happening in my life.

The weird thing is that I don’t really have the usual anxiety symptoms. No racing heart, no hypervigilance, no future oriented worrying, just constant pervasive dread.

It started after a random panic attack, and then just kinda stuck around in the background constantly until I had another panic attack ~5 months ago in which it got way worse and stayed way worse. For the last 5 months I’ve been living through what I can only describe as hell.

Basically I just feel horribly isolated because this symptom seems so unusual and it’s so debilitating and I’ve never heard of anyone else having this. I’d be so happy to hear from anyone that’s experienced anything even similar and if anything worked for you.

Hello everyone. I’m 27 years old, male and I have a generalized anxiety disorder and a panic disorder. Got diagnosed when I was 15.

Anyways, for the past year, I’ve been deathly afraid of seizures. Like it’s a life or death phobia. I’ve never had one, have been told my numerous doctors and hospitals that I’m fine, I’m not epileptic, I’ve been sober from alcohol for over a year. But for some reason, every sensation, every twitch, every shake, it makes my body brace itself like I am about seize. I get all tense, I get shaky, I get this weird “rush” through my body, I get this overwhelming exhausted feeling in my eyes and I get that woozy feeling like I’m going to pass out and then images just flash in my mind of me just falling to the ground and convulsing. Like earlier today, I went to use to restroom and as I was sitting down, I had to brace myself, pressing my hands to the wall and then I laid on the bathroom floor because I just felt really constricted and off.

I’ve been evaluated numerous times by medical staff; my vitals look great, I’ve never had a seizure, they always clear me. I am supposed to see a neurologist in December just as a precaution because I finally wore my doctor down to give me an appointment.

I’ve been taking buspirone 15mg 3x a day and clonidine 0.3mg twice a day for my anxiety and for a while, it seemed to do the trick. The seizure-phobia disappeared for months. But these past few weeks, it’s reared its head again. I’ve called emergency services twice in the past month, both times the paramedics reassured me that I’m okay and offered to take me to the hospital to ease my mind but were honest that there was little they could do for me.

I guess ultimately, has anyone else experience a fear related to this or had similar sensations? In my heart, I believe the medical staff and that I’ll be okay, it’s just hard when it feels like my body is working against me.

Today I saw my mom move a Dcon block of rat poison with her bare hands and afterwards she just ran her hands under some water but didn't use any soap and that really concerns me, also i'm pretty sure i've seen her do the same thing when handling raw meat in the past so that's naturally made my OCD flare up and wash my hands more. It's weird cause my mom is normally pretty good about other stuff, but she's weirdly casual about this sort of thing. I know the active in ingredient in Dcon is far more toxic to animals then humans, but i'd still rather not accidentally ingest trace amounts of the stuff if I can help it. Wish there was a way to get my mom to use soap in the kitchen more without her potentially freaking out on me for suggesting it.

This situation is giving me a ton of anxiety and I keep replaying it in my head.

Any perspective on this situation is appreciated.

I’ve suffered from generalized anxiety my entire life. I was first medicated with Paxil when I was 5. I think I was in denial about how bad my anxiety was for a long time since it was baseline for me. I started exploring medication a few years ago. I tried Zoloft which was horrible with side effects I had to immediately switch to Lexapro which I was on for about two years. I never felt it did much for my anxiety, but I had notable uncomfortable side effects that made me eventually come off of it. Dry mouth, night sweats, stomach issues.

I have had Xanax a few times, maybe 5 or 6 total and my gosh does it work. It’s so defeating that it’s an as needed type of drug and I’m worried about taking it too often.

I feel like I toy around with the idea of meds whenever my anxiety hits a peak which it has recently hit it just feels like the daily meds don’t do anything but cause negative side effects and I don’t want to deal with that for nothing.

You see testimonials online where people feel like medication totally changed their life and I want that feeling so badly and I just feel defeated like that won’t ever happen for me.

Idk what I’m looking for, maybe encouragement if you found a med that really did feel like it improved your daily quality of life?

i would like some advice on functioning with this fear. i have anxiety in every part of my life, but this phobia has been very harmful to me.

i have an extreme fear of dying. it’s constantly in the back of my mind that someday, i will die. im often unable to sleep because of it, as closing my eyes will remind me too much of being dead. i can’t listen to any conversations about death— one example is in highschool, my classmate did a presentation on burial procedures, and i had to leave to go throw up. my reactions to triggers vary in intensity, but it’s been going on for so long that i don’t know how to deal with it. im in a constant state of sadness from it at this point.

thank you for reading. any advice on minimizing my fear, or just coping with death, would be greatly appreciated. i’ve gone to therapy in the past, but it always just makes me worry more.

I need suggestions because I don’t know how to explain what I’m experiencing. I get anxiety hits and attacks over basic triggers. For example, my roommate putting up a new bill, people messaging me about conflicts between them, or not being able to find someone to take over the house. The last one triggered a full-blown anxiety attack. I felt nauseous, had that sinking feeling in my stomach, started feeling cold, and had difficulty breathing. It took me almost an hour to recover. The smaller episodes usually last around five minutes, sometimes with overlapping symptoms.

I hate experiencing this. I don’t like how much certain situations affect me. Anxiety stemming from household issues and conflict is understandable, but sometimes it happens over other things, and that’s what frustrates me. It makes me feel stunted, like I’m someone who can’t handle things that other people seem to manage normally.

I don’t want to keep feeling this way. I want to understand why I react so intensely to certain triggers and what I can do to stop letting anxiety affect me like this.Therapy hasn't really helped! Most of the ones I met always end up telling me to meditate go for walks... etc even though I have told it doesn't help! It gives me space to overthink even more than I was!

Hi, I need some advice for what to do.

I'm experiencing multiple panic attacks every day, and it's affecting my ability to perform basic self care. I feel extraordinarily depressed, and I cannot find any relief.

Therapy and psychiatry are proving ineffective, and I'm in a state of severe suffering. Do I need to seek inpatient care? I have no history of substance abuse, nor any problematic behavior towards others.

What resource am I supposed to seek out right now?

My stomach doesn't really hurt, but I can feel that something inside is relaxing or letting go. It makes gurgling sounds and I pass gas. I feel like I'm dying because of this sensation of my stomach relaxing, from morning to night. The more it relaxes, the more I feel like my whole body is expanding and staying that way, as if everything inside me is opening up and can't go back to normal. It's extremely difficult to explain, but this sensation makes me feel physically very unwell all the time. Because I feel so expanded and relaxed inside, I pass gas.

without being anxious in my head i cant go out or watch tv ???

like i'll spend weeks working through being anxious about one specific thing, finally feel like i've got a handle on it, and then my brain just decides "cool, new fear unlocked" and i'm back to square one. it's honestly exhausting. curious if this happens to other people or if my anxiety is just built different.

Hey, I'm conducting a survey on the relationship between anxiety disorders and academic performance among adolescents. As someone who used to struggled with an anxiety disorder a lot, I want to explore this topic to better understand others' experience. This is for a research project for my issues in human growth course. It's an anonymous form and no emails are collected, skip any questions u dont feel comfortable answering. I'd appreciate it so much if u took a few mins to fill out this form, thanks! :)

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About a week ago now I greened out on weed and had an episode where I thought I died and was convinced for a couple hours after that I was dead. After calming down I went to sleep then woke up, the next 2 days I experienced derealization. Then this cleared up, but now over the last 3 days I’ve struggled where whenever I’m on my own or not actively focusing on something, if I get a thought about anxiety, my heart rate increases and I start trembling and get more anxious progressively. Does this mean I could have developed anxiety and could this solve on its own because I’ve progressively got better from others issues.

So basically we had our mid terms and i fucked up my math paper. Now I am probably getting my paper next week and I am just scared. I know it is just mid term and it doesn't matter but i still feel insane anxiety, like i can't stop thinking about it and i just have so much anxiety cuz of it. It would be really helpful to get some advice from people who know how to deal with this or have felt the same before

Hi, im 21F from the UK. I've always suffered from intense social axiety, meeting new people sends my head spiralling, when im in social situations im too in my head to do anything. I recently started university and this has made me struggle a lot socially. This has been the case from since i started school at 3, but ive always been too scared to go to the doctors because i dont know if they take social anxiety seriously, ive rang up but always got too nervous when it came to the appointment.

I was wondering (maybe anyone from UK could help) what to say to the doctors for them to take me seriously ? Ive recently been suffering physical symptoms like stomach cramps due to this and im just really scared that they wont take something like this serious but i really wanna get this sorted because im sick of my life being controlled like this. Any advice would be appreciated