Panic or despair or both?

[rizo]

I've been feeling severe anxiety for a few weeks now but the past few days it has moved into this feeling of despair.
I can't describe how low that feeling is. It's awful. I'm terrified it's something else, like clinical depression.
Mainly im so scared that i'l feel that despair for the rest of my life.
It relieves me kind of to think that it is just panic because panic is treatable. But this despair feeling, it's just ridiculously overwhelming.

Does anybody have experience of this? Is this just anxiety/panic or something else? Im really scared

[KelsBellz]

I do too. I get this horrible feeling of intense terror, like the most catastrophic things will happen to me right now if I don't escape then after I've calmed down I get this feeling of loneliness and misery because I fear that my panic and anxiety will destroy me and that I'll never be free, you're not alone in this!

[ratladder]

I experience this as well, my therapist thinks (and I agree) that it's my depression kind of "flaring up" because I'm very fed up with my panic attacks.

The good news is it doesn't last forever, my psychiatrist adjusted my medication a bit and my therapist and I have had a lot of positive progress with CBT. I'm sorry you're struggling with it too, you're not alone!