ZMan
12-12-10, 15:35
Usually, I don't go through full days feeling anxious etc. (although I am recently because of my referral to an ENT specialist)
Anyway, what I sometimes do experience is burts of irrational panic, sometimes once a week, sometimes once a day.
Mines seem to be centred around choking on stuff etc.
I'll give a quick example, thirsty minutes ago I put a cotton bud tip in my mouth to wet it and as it came out a chunk was missing. Now, me being panicky, I start to think, it's gone down my throat, it'll be obsturcting my airway, I may be allergic to cotton, it'll stick in my throat etc. etc.
Now, most people, if you told them you swallowed a minute minute bit of cotton from the tip of a cotton bud would laugh at such concerns. Hell, even I know they're irrational. But I can convince myself I'm dying because of them.
The other day I was waxing a jakcet while wearing latex gloves and had to stop because I felt like I was having an allergic reaction. The next day, the same thing happened. Both times i convinced myself my airway was oging to close and I was indeed going to die.
Now on every occassion I work myself into such panics, my throat obliges by getting the lump in the throat feeling etc. Which obviously is anxiety but when in terror I convince myself it's not.
For instance a few weeks back I ate a hard sweet which felt like it stuck of caught in the bottom of my throat and that triggered the same thing.
I'm still sitting here analysing my throat to see if the cotton will kill me. It's wierd cos I know how stupid that sounds, but it feels very worrying.
Anyway, what I sometimes do experience is burts of irrational panic, sometimes once a week, sometimes once a day.
Mines seem to be centred around choking on stuff etc.
I'll give a quick example, thirsty minutes ago I put a cotton bud tip in my mouth to wet it and as it came out a chunk was missing. Now, me being panicky, I start to think, it's gone down my throat, it'll be obsturcting my airway, I may be allergic to cotton, it'll stick in my throat etc. etc.
Now, most people, if you told them you swallowed a minute minute bit of cotton from the tip of a cotton bud would laugh at such concerns. Hell, even I know they're irrational. But I can convince myself I'm dying because of them.
The other day I was waxing a jakcet while wearing latex gloves and had to stop because I felt like I was having an allergic reaction. The next day, the same thing happened. Both times i convinced myself my airway was oging to close and I was indeed going to die.
Now on every occassion I work myself into such panics, my throat obliges by getting the lump in the throat feeling etc. Which obviously is anxiety but when in terror I convince myself it's not.
For instance a few weeks back I ate a hard sweet which felt like it stuck of caught in the bottom of my throat and that triggered the same thing.
I'm still sitting here analysing my throat to see if the cotton will kill me. It's wierd cos I know how stupid that sounds, but it feels very worrying.