happyone
18-07-10, 17:43
I know we all know anxiety and panic but I am intrigued/cheesed off, with how it seems to morph. I know all the symptoms of anxiety and how they are caused but the particular way in which I feel my anxiety seems to change, as though to stay one step ahead of me.
It used to be that my anxiety was felt clearly in my digestive tract. I had a tight feeling in my stomach and I would have to go to loo immediately (tmi!) I would tell myself it was anx and it would pass and that seemed to help.
Then it morphed into dizziness. Or un unreal feeling. I would feel as though I was leaving my body and listening from far away. It took me a while and I still find it difficult but again I would breathe and try to regain the upper hand.
However, the anx would then manifest in the form of pins and needles, heavy sweating, nausea, tight chest, cramps, dry mouth.........each time I thought I had mastered it, a new symptom came and bit me on the bum!
Now, it has grabbed me again. I have gone pretty much without diazepam since my hospital stay in February but this last week the panics with no apparent cause have gripped me. And it does feel like it has gripped me....literally......round the windpipe. It jumps on me and I have this horrid feeling of my airways being crushed and a feeling of not being able to breathe. I know it is anxiety which is always a help but I am finding this one difficult to deal with. I think it is because the source of my anxiety is outwith my control and I am trying not to think about it, but my brain has different ideas.
Oh well........diazepam here I come:mad:
How do others feel their anxiety? How does it manifest?
Happyone
xx
It used to be that my anxiety was felt clearly in my digestive tract. I had a tight feeling in my stomach and I would have to go to loo immediately (tmi!) I would tell myself it was anx and it would pass and that seemed to help.
Then it morphed into dizziness. Or un unreal feeling. I would feel as though I was leaving my body and listening from far away. It took me a while and I still find it difficult but again I would breathe and try to regain the upper hand.
However, the anx would then manifest in the form of pins and needles, heavy sweating, nausea, tight chest, cramps, dry mouth.........each time I thought I had mastered it, a new symptom came and bit me on the bum!
Now, it has grabbed me again. I have gone pretty much without diazepam since my hospital stay in February but this last week the panics with no apparent cause have gripped me. And it does feel like it has gripped me....literally......round the windpipe. It jumps on me and I have this horrid feeling of my airways being crushed and a feeling of not being able to breathe. I know it is anxiety which is always a help but I am finding this one difficult to deal with. I think it is because the source of my anxiety is outwith my control and I am trying not to think about it, but my brain has different ideas.
Oh well........diazepam here I come:mad:
How do others feel their anxiety? How does it manifest?
Happyone
xx