My intense anxiety has turned into an overreaction of fear towards most worrysome thoughts. For awhile I was afraid of being alone, taking a shower because of the small space, and just generally being alone with my thoughts.
It feels like my fear reaction is hypersensitive, even when I know the reaction is irrational towards the subject matter, I can't get out of this "state of fear." I've been working hard on challenging the fear, I've been forcing myself to be on my own and do things that bother me and it does seem to be helping..
But it's more based around my thoughts at this point. I keep having worries that pop into my head about being crazy or just frightening thoughts about having the anxiety and not being able to NOT think about it, and just feeling strange and not myself. I ALWAYS have this feeling of dread that has pretty much overwhelmed my sense of being and I no longer trust myself or my judgement towards worry.
How does one UNDO this hypersensitive state? Is this a normal part of anxiety and GAD?