Wondering if anyone has this experience or if there is any science behind why.

First, my anxiety is the worst in the morning. I try to stay asleep as long as possible because, of course, I don't feel anxious while asleep.

But I often feel much, much better late at night. between 1 and 4am is when I am the most calm, have the least amount of fear, and feel almost "OK".

I am 47F. Single and child free. I like to dress up for office. I have nice dresses, suits, skirts, tops, some jewellery pieces and shoes. I like to mix and match -sometimes monochrom, some times contrasting. It is tasteful.

But that's me. I don't expect others to do the same. I am very free with my compliments. Even to strangers. If I like anything in their dress. I compliment them right away. But I have never looked down or made fun of any one for the way they have dressed.

Today, two separate people commented on the way I dress. One said that they don't like wearing suits and they feel it is a bit much. Another one commented why I am so dressed up today?

My anxiety just up since then. How am I hurting anyone by the way I dress? I never asked them to dress a certain way. Every one have their own choice. I am just so stressed about what to wear tomorrow to office at this point.

One joy of my life. They had to take that away...

EDIT: Thank you all for taking time to comment. I was literally in tears last night. Thanks to all your encouragement, getting ready for office this morning with a smile and, of course, one of my nice dress (TBH, I don't have any thing else to wear in my wardrobe, unless I wear my pajamas to work!). You all are very kind. Sending positive vibes from my side...

Hello all. I used to be completely care free. No worries, no issues, could switch jobs left and right with no concerns at all. But at some point around 31-32, I had a big anxiety attack, never had one before, lasted for a few days. And it's been downhill since then.

I'll spiral for weeks about my heart, cancer, tumors, strokes, etc. you name it, I've worried about it. I'll be fine for months at a time, then outta nowhere, it's back in full swing.

Just wondering if anyone else knows what the hell im talking about??!!

I feel so bad when people say, "I never dealt with anxiety or had anxiety." It makes me feel terrible about myself and so jealous of them. I really don't like the concept of jealousy, but I think that's actually how I feel.

I feel like I don’t know how to be human and it’s really frustrating.

I had to make a phone call earlier and it was important and I was putting off. I made it but then it went to voicemail when I got put through to the department. I didn’t prepare for a voicemail message so I completely messed that up and just left my number lol not even my name or what it was about ??? Why can’t I just do things like normal people do? Now I’m just upset and frustrated because I hate being like this and it’s only really gotten bad in recent years.

I feel so anxious about being anxious? It’s absolute misery. I don’t know how to be normal or how to live a normal life while trying to deal with it. Why am I so out of place?

The only times I can act or pretend (maybe even sometimes feel) like I’m not anxious or socially awkward are when I’m drinking and/or high. I can make friends then and sustain conversations and not do weird shit like managing to fuck up leaving a voicemail. But I can’t keep drinking all the time forever. What do I do? What do you guys do to help you at least pretend to be normal?

How do you stop feeling like an alien? Or stop that feeling like there’s friction between you and the other person when talking? How do I stop this?

i’m having a hard time typing this my hands are shaky and my limbs don’t feel attached to my body. my mouth feels numb and i can’t swallow or breathe easily. it happened in seconds. i was fine, laughing with my mom watching tv and then i scratched my head and i couldn’t feel it. then my head instantly felt tight and like full of fluid. then my vision got weird and i couldn’t focus on the people in the show. i heard their voices and what they were saying but i didn’t feel right. my stomach is in knots and i feel like i have to throw up and im shaking uncontrollably and having a hard time thinking and speaking. i’m terrified and i can’t calm myself down i am contemplating going to the ER but i really don’t want to cause it’s embarrassing. i took a xanax but it’s not helping much. i’ve never had a panic attack like this and it’s so scary idk what to do. i can’t distract myself with social media or tv because the images are distorted. any advice?

Let them fucking look at me

Let them judge me

Let everything fall apart if it has to

If I die then so be it. There's nothing wrong with me. I've never once tried to bring anyone down, I've come far. I'm an adult and pay my bills. I am a good person. And so are you. And yet I worry if I'm doing things right. Well FUCK IT. I don't a give a shit about the demons. Just let it all go, if this is life-- living in a state of agony and constant fear and sorrow, worried about what will and won't happen, then just let fate take me. Kill me, smite me down. When my time is up then so be it. Try and make me quit. Try and destroy me. I don't care, world.

Every morning I wake up weirdly "too energized". I don't need to drink coffee at all. I have a headache and little nauseous.

By 10 am I feel energized, maybe even having a short fuse.

Around 10 AM I have the worst symptoms for me:
\-dpdr (I can’t focus, blank mind and clarity of thinking goes away - that’s scary for me)
\-back of my head, jaw and head hurt (sounds like a tension headache)
\- very unpleasant sensation in my stomach, like mixture of physical terror(?) which makes me think I am either to pass out or something terrible is happening to me, scared of "going crazy"
\- nausea

In the afternoon, I am usually fine. Just having tension headache and short fuse. Little things make me furious

I have already been diagnosed, my psych told me it's somatic anxiety and they gave me ssri (I am into 3rd week of fluoxetine - a higher dose (20) since last Friday. )

Despite being told by the psych that it's anxiety, I really can't somehow convince myself it's anxiety because usually my mind is not stressing about something particular. But the symptoms are really physical. Is here anybody who has/had similar symptoms? Could you please share your experience with me?

Had a nice chill day today due to the long weekend and was getting ready to head to bed early for a long day of work tomorrow. I turn the lights off and try to head to bed and BOOM it’s like a flip switched and I have a headache, and a stomachache, and my throats itchy, and I’m sweating like crazy, and my hearts pounding and I’m starting to get frustrated because I NEED energy to get through the day tomorrow because my work days are so long and it’s annoying how I recuperated this long weekend just for this annoying little thing to happen. Im sure this frustration is probably exacerbating my symptoms ✌️. It literally feels like FOREVER but nope it’s only been three hours. And unless I’m getting physically sick or something, I fear this might be my anxiety but whyyyy can it just go away plsss it just feels like my body is attacking me for existing and the frustration is just continue to pile up. 😔

I feel like I’ve been stuck in a weird loop with my anxiety and I’m not sure how to get out of it. I wake up anxious, I’m anxious throughout my whole day about any and everything, and then I go to bed worrying about tomorrow. Anxiety is something I have struggled with my whole life, but I’ve really been hitting a wall these days and I feel like it’s started pushing me into a depressive spell.

I’ve seen a lot of positive posts on here about “accepting” your anxiety and choosing not to keep thinking about it / analyzing it. But I don’t understand 1) how to even begin that process 2) how it would help.

I’m not trying to discount this method, if anything I want a better understanding so I can try it myself. I am currently on medication, which has certainly helped some, but I am still struggling every day. I always thought that thinking through things and understanding the “why” behind why why something happens is the first step to gaining control of it- but with my anxiety and obsessive thoughts it seems to only magnify it.

Maybe I am taking it a bit too literal, but I don’t want to “accept” the awful way that I feel, I want to change it. But maybe I’m thinking about it wrong? I don’t know.

Any and all tips, advice, or stories is very appreciated! Thank you. ♥︎

I didn't find a version of it that could be played on my phone, I played it on my PC. If I found one I will share it here in an edit.

What I will be saying will probably be spoilers for the game, so you can play it and come back when you're finished, it's 30 minutes total.

https://ncase.me/anxiety/

!!​SPOILERS!!

>!I loved how it demonstrated anxiety as a troubled ​shelter dog that wants badly to be a guard dog. It's a dog that has very maladaptive skills to its troubles​!<

>!​​It tries to protect 3 core aspects of you, your need for safety, your need to belong and your will to be good. And the game gives space to explore that by "accepting" anxiety, it is meant to make space for it and be patient with it like you would be with a traumatized animal. You don't fight them or flee them, you sit down kindly with them and listen and acknowledge what they want to protect​!<

>! Naming those 3 aspects like that and the interactive way the game shows them made me be able to name those 3 in my own constant fears and know how to work with them! I will be bringing them to therapy next time for sure!<

I got prescribed 150mg Zoloft eventually, then that wasn’t doing everything the doctor and I hoped, so we decided since I’d already tried Prozac (which is an SSRI) as a teen, and that didn’t work either, that since Zoloft was also not working, we’d try an SNRI. I ended up finding the 75mg Effexor and 150mg Zoloft made me feel incredible. I took prozasin for nightmares as well.

I felt great mentally, but everytime I missed a dose of either, which was becoming easier through my new idgaf mindset, I’d feel like I was falling off the earth sometimes. Like sudden vertigo and loss of motor control. I of course became more organized, but eventually that didn’t matter.

About 3 years into the combination I started getting severe episodes of unexplainable hypoglycemia and hypothermia. I went to the ER with blood sugar levels between 50 and 20 a few times, while I was also hypothermic and required heating to get my temperature to register on ER thermometers. My A1C was 4.7 at the time.

I had read a publication on jstor about a woman who had taken venlaflaxine and experienced the exact same side effects as me. So I decided I didn’t want to wait till the doctors did a million test to figure out why I’m getting the exact same reaction to venlaflaxine another woman about my age had. I quit cold turkey knowing there would be dangers. I had night sweats and recurrent nightmares for years, but that seems to have stopped now.

It took about 5 years after going cold turkey to realize I’m free of the night sweats and hypoglycemia now.

Public speaking triggers severe performance anxiety for me. My heart races, my voice trembles as if I'm about to cry, my eyes water, and my mind goes completely blank during Q&A sessions. Even though I hold a high-level position and practice beforehand, I feel like public speaking could sabotage my career. I'm nervous about whether my pres.cribed 10 mg of propranolol will be effective against these symptoms.

I have quite bad anxiety and depersonalisation. I thought caffeine always made anxiety worse but for me, I actually feel calmer and more level headed when I drink a redbull?

You can look through my reddit history. I've got issues. I've been contacting 988 crisis lifeline a lot cause I'm tired of using ai for hours to soothe my OCD or vent to like a crazy person. I need help. This feels like an emergency. Like I'm losing my mind. Can someone please help me? I need something to bring me back to earth. I feel super out of it.

Hello, I'm new to this but I have some symptoms that everybody is telling me is anxiety but doesn't feel like it

I have been diagnosed anxiety for quite some time now, thanks to my mom who suffers anxiety disorder too.

The thing is, I haven't been able to properly sleep quite some time now. I have this weird thing were I get super sleepy and lay down to sleep but 2 min in and a already woke up without feeling my pulse or heart, like everything just stops out of nowhere and it's very intense and the more I try to fall asleep, it keeps going. Also, maybe is because I have gasses but sometimes my chest hurts when I wake up so suddenly and I have to sit down. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, depends the night. Also, when I stand up (mind you, this all happens at night when I try to sleep, not at work or anything) I get very dizzy and weak, like I'm super exhausted and i just wanna sleep but I can't because I keep waking up.

I don't know what to do, every single doctor just tells me it's anxiety but I can't keep trying to sleep like this.

Please help

For the past 2 years I’ve been having at least 5 panic attacks a day. Usually, I am able to keep it together the best I can but today me and my husband left a date and I drove us home and had the worst panic attack of my life on the highway and I had to pull over so he could drive while I screamed begging him to take me to the emergency room. It is getting worse and worse and I don’t know what to do. I’m too anxious to even take any prescribed psych medications. Everything is terrifying to me now. I am a prisoner in my own body. I am just waiting for the day I can’t even leave our house anymore.

So ive been taking pregabs for 2/3 months 900/1200mg 2-3 times a week and on my 4rd day of stopping and I have loss of appetite I know I have to eat but foods not appealing even the food I love is this a common withdrawal symptom or what cant seem to find anything about online

Anyone went thru a similiar experience?

I have no vomiting or nausea just don’t feel hungry and foods not appealing I’m going mental cause I love to eat !

how long will this take and why does this happen can anyone explain I have to go work and I feel so weak and anxious cause of this

Do I really just need to like face tank all of my fears everything that gives me anxiety I just do it anyway?

Okay, so I’m gonna try my best to describe what I mean. I think we all know what the general feeling of anxiety is, like when your stomach has butterflies and you’re able to identify you’re feeling anxious. But this has now happened to me twice, where I’ve had panic attacks when I thought I wasn’t anxious and don’t feel anxious. Both times it has been before a big event (first day of school). It always confuses me because I don’t feel anxious, but I have other symptoms. Like last time, I was super cold and shivering and chattering and felt sick, but I thought it was something other than an anxiety attack cause I wasn’t even feeling anxious. Then it happened again today, where I started to think I was having a stroke, and my body started to mimic those feelings, my teeth started chattering, heart pain and palpitations etc. , even though I hadn’t identified myself being anxious at all earlier. I suspect this is my body pushing down my feelings of anxiety about whats happening tomorrow (first day of school) and letting me believe I don’t feel anxious, but then still giving me symptoms. It’s like a stealth panic attack I guess. Anxiety attack without the anxiety. Sorry if I didnt explain this right !!!

I’m going on a cruise tomorrow and I’m really excited, but I keep having anticipatory anxiety before I even get there. I keep thinking that I’m going to have anxiety or panic attacks on the ship and won’t be able to enjoy myself.

I also get a lot of “what if” thoughts, especially when I’m eating at restaurants or somewhere I feel like I can’t easily leave. I’ll think, “What if I choke?” “What if I pass out?” “What if I start feeling weird?”

Then I notice physical symptoms like feeling lightheaded, numb, shaky, or anxious, and I immediately feel like I need to escape.

I had this happen at dinner tonight and ended up being completely fine once I calmed down, but I’m still nervous about being on the cruise for several days away from home

Has anyone dealt with this while traveling or on a cruise? What actually helped you? Are there any things you do in the moment when the physical symptoms start, or anything that helps with the anticipatory anxiety before it even happens? I really want to enjoy this trip instead of spending the whole time waiting for an anxiety attack.

So tonight Im laying down relaxing after dinner. And notice my HR is higher than normal. And I dont like how its beating. No way to describe that other than that. Anyways I start to panic and it goes up. I go to the bathroom (I am on my period) and loud boom, transformer blows and our whole block is out. Now I've got 3 kids, im coming down from an anxiety attack, and now the power is out. Its a school night. I get focused and get everyone in bed. Lay down with my youngest and my HR settles again. Its dark and quiet. Im scrolling through my phone. All of a sudden I notice my hr is fast. Idk how fast but my watch went up to 100 REAL QUICK. So then now im panicking. I still up it goes 125. Then I breathe and calm down and it settles again. Kids are asleep I come to sit in the living room. I feel my heart skip a beat. Then it feels like just flutters constantly but my watch is still saying around 75bpm. I get up move around it feels fine. But like is this just a bad anxiety evening or what?!? Im always going to worst case scenario immediately.

last week i had a mishap in which i took a laxative a day before going to my college… (bad idea, i know). during the entire day i kept using the bathroom and contemplating on going back home which caused me to stayed there till 8pm... now i have such a fear of going outside again or going on public transport specifically because i believe i’ll have an intrusive thought telling me to poop myself which i was having the day i had that incident, also doesn’t help that the urge happened suddenly WHILE I WAS ON THE BUS. i’ve avoided going for the rest of last week to my college/classes and now i have to go tomorrow… just the thought of going terrifies me. i am absolutely terrified and i legit teared up a few hours ago just thinking about it.