Woke up thinking I was dying.. First time this has happened...

[fedup36]

Hi Linda,
Thankfully I am yet to have another episode of this but can obviously sympathise with you! It was the worse sensation I have ever felt! What frustrated me is it happened whilst I started to actually feel a bit better! I had a really bad couple of days after it to as I just wanted to avoid it happening again - thankfully it hasn't

If I am completely honest I started to forget it even happened and hope the same happens for you It seems to be a common thing though amongst us anxiety sufferers!

I am having as rubbish day today - full blown panic attack in Asda at lunchtime :( And now I keep feeling like I am about to fall to sleep which scares me that I am about to bloodie faint - I can't believe anxiety can make you feel this rotten :(

[Linda01818]

Thank you for responding

Anxiety can definitely make you feel rotten. In fact it can take over your life, with constant worries, sometimes completely irrational, that plague your mind. I really should be back on anti-anxiety meds, but the side-effects terrify me because I went through it with Celexa and I don't want to go through it again. My doctor recently prescribed me Lexapro and I stopped it just a few days in because I got those all-too-familiar visual disturbances, it completely killed my appetite and my head was spinning so badly I couldn't even drive to work. I'm afraid of those things and already having health anxiety, I think any pill I take is going to send me to the hospital with crazy side-effects.

I'm a mess :(

I'm glad you haven't experienced that again. And I hope to heck I never do again either because I spent my entire morning crying because of it. I'm okay now, but I still shake can't that feeling.

One thing I've learned in my years of dealing with this is it's scary how powerful the mind is. I can literally control your physical being.