JonnyUK
26-04-09, 14:52
I think I suffer from GAD. I have had health problems for 12 years, and I think even if it didn't begin as anxiety, the not being diagnosed aspect turned things in to anxiety.
Over the last month things seem to have taken a step up. I have had small problems thinking and reading, and I feel as though it will be an effort or difficult to start talking.
One of the main recent issues though is a heart or chest feeling, I keep having to take a deep breath. Like if I get the 'difficult to talk' feeling, if I take a deep breath then it is ok. I am not talking social situations, just at home, on the phone, with family, mates etc. I have a weird sort of sickly, tickly, feeling in my chest, like butterflies but in my heart/chest instead of stomach.
Also I saw a film yesterday, a horror, and I am never affected by them normally, but on the big twist reveal I suddenly felt really tingly all over and spacey, a strange feeling, my whole body felt fuzzy. This is just at home on a normal sized TV. I suffer the same sort of feeling on big crescendo style noise build ups, the more the noise builds up the more I feel tingly and by the end of the build up I can feel like a scared cat, my hair on end and shaking and fully spaced out.
Also something I experienced last night was weird, I was trying to get to sleep and in my vision was like a firework display, colours everywhere, stuff flying around. When I opened my eyes it stopped. Then when I shut them again to get to sleep the colours and shapes happened again. Normally my closed eyesight is just the usual sort of dark shades with not much happening. It felt like I was om mushrooms or something, not bodily, just visually. As I say, everything vanished when I opened my eyes, and it usually took a few seconds when closed for the visuals to appear.
So am I just crazy or are these possible anxiety symptoms ? The funny thing is, this thread http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42556 is exactly me, when I read it I laughed out loud as the Google and MS and ALS obsession is exactly what I suffer from. I read something on google, then panic, become obsessed I have that, and then get initially relieved if told I don't have it, but then wonder "what if" soon after the relief, then I once again think I have it. I always end up saying to myself "but people do suffer from these serious things, so maybe I do have it, why not me" etc etc.
Sorry for the ramble. If no one has experienced the things I mention then don't be afraid to tell me :)
Over the last month things seem to have taken a step up. I have had small problems thinking and reading, and I feel as though it will be an effort or difficult to start talking.
One of the main recent issues though is a heart or chest feeling, I keep having to take a deep breath. Like if I get the 'difficult to talk' feeling, if I take a deep breath then it is ok. I am not talking social situations, just at home, on the phone, with family, mates etc. I have a weird sort of sickly, tickly, feeling in my chest, like butterflies but in my heart/chest instead of stomach.
Also I saw a film yesterday, a horror, and I am never affected by them normally, but on the big twist reveal I suddenly felt really tingly all over and spacey, a strange feeling, my whole body felt fuzzy. This is just at home on a normal sized TV. I suffer the same sort of feeling on big crescendo style noise build ups, the more the noise builds up the more I feel tingly and by the end of the build up I can feel like a scared cat, my hair on end and shaking and fully spaced out.
Also something I experienced last night was weird, I was trying to get to sleep and in my vision was like a firework display, colours everywhere, stuff flying around. When I opened my eyes it stopped. Then when I shut them again to get to sleep the colours and shapes happened again. Normally my closed eyesight is just the usual sort of dark shades with not much happening. It felt like I was om mushrooms or something, not bodily, just visually. As I say, everything vanished when I opened my eyes, and it usually took a few seconds when closed for the visuals to appear.
So am I just crazy or are these possible anxiety symptoms ? The funny thing is, this thread http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42556 is exactly me, when I read it I laughed out loud as the Google and MS and ALS obsession is exactly what I suffer from. I read something on google, then panic, become obsessed I have that, and then get initially relieved if told I don't have it, but then wonder "what if" soon after the relief, then I once again think I have it. I always end up saying to myself "but people do suffer from these serious things, so maybe I do have it, why not me" etc etc.
Sorry for the ramble. If no one has experienced the things I mention then don't be afraid to tell me :)