Well, I really need you guys's help because I'm about to go mad. Right now, my parents are away for another couple of weeks (they've been away for nearly 2 already), and before they went I was starting to feel a little unwell. Since they've left, I've been getting worse.

I have a real fear of being alone incase something happens to me. Everyone I know lives at least a 30 minute drive away, some even on different continents, and noone checks on me regularly - or at least not enought to know something is wrong. I'm so scared that while I'm on my own, something will happen to me and my animals won't have anyone to care for them, because noone will notice I'm gone for weeks.

I'm hoping this is the cause of all my physical ailments. My hair is falling out (this started maybe a week or 2 before they went away), I'm tired ALL the time no matter how much sleep I get, I'm physically exhausted (I'm only 24 years old, and even walking into the next room of my house can be taxing), I can hear & at times feel my heart beating in my head, and I'm physically shaky all the time.
It was bearable until last night when something extremely scary happened. I was asleep, when all of a sudden I woke up, and my entire face was numb, and also a lot of my body. My legs were so stiff that it hurt to move them even a tiny bit, and my eyesight was slightly distorted. I also felt as if someone had drugged me - I kept staring at my hand thinking, "s this my hand?? wow..." and panicking about that.
In fact, I panicked so much that I almost called an ambulance.

These symptoms have gotten to me so badly that I have a VERY hard time leaving the house. I'm also very convinced that I'm dying, and have thought about it so much that I've considered leaving notes to tell people to look after my animals. They're what I admittedly worry about the most - their suffering if I die.

Anyway, that's enough of my nutty post. I've been to the doctor and am having blood tests on Friday. But this was before the episode I had last night. What do you think? Can anyone else say that they have experienced similar things?

One more thing - the doctor upped my dose of Fluoxetine from 20mg to 40mg a couple of weeks ago, after being on the former for almost a year.

Please help me... I'm really at a loss.