Does anxiety suck or what. I recently started having some anxiety issues. First minor heart palpitations a few moths back, then just an odd sensation that sometimes lasted most of the day but sometimes abated when I was concentrating specifically on something. Then an episode driving to work. The closer I got to work, the worse I felt, yet I felt certain that if I turned around and went towards home I would feel better. But I figure I'm a guy, I'm tough, I'll just go to work. I walk through the door and up the hall and now I feel like I've been wired for 220v, my ears felt like satellite dishes that could hear mold growing on the floor mop at the far end of the warehouse a block away but I'm in a group of people so I keep moving. My heart isn't galloping or anything, not like when I drank too much coffee about 4 months ago and my heart raced, but this was much more a mental disruption at this point. I kind of wondered if maybe I was dying and as soon as I thought that I had this big adrenaline dump. I expect my eyes dilated because the light in the room quickly became quite a bit brighter and I suddenly had tunnel vision. I really don't want to make a scene and I managed to keep walking and not collapse into a puddle and my vision starts to return to normal and my heart comes back down some and nobody is looking at me strange or anything and there is no way I'm going to mention it because how do you put a question like that to someone. How do you say "did you see me almost dying back there for the last 50 feet" and not sound like an idiot. For the rest of the day I just feel really weird and it didn't get that bad again, just long periods of feeling strange and worrying that I might have brain damage or a brain disease. While I've kind of made an attempt to relate this in a humorous fashion, that's just my way but this is an exact description of what happened to me right down to me being pretty surprised that no one seemed to recognise the kind of distress I was in, or at least if they did they didn't mention it. I guess what I wonder is if this is the way others commonly feel when they have this. The palpitations, the weird feeling, the adrenaline dump, the tunnel vision or other slight visual distortions. I did notice that when I was just feeling really weird and distressed there did seem to be a visual component to it. Not that my vision was poorer, but my perception seemed screwed up. I kept taking of my glasses and cleaning them to no avail and that's when I realised it was perception not actually visual. I'm now off of work for however many weeks until the celexa I was put on starts to work. It's been maybe 3 weeks now. 2 weeks at 10mg and a week at 20mg. I'm having much less palpitations but still feel weird for long stretches and coffee is now off that table because it makes me feel like I've got voltage running through me again and I have no desire to go back there to where I was walking into work and having that dying feeling and tunnel vision thing.
When I finally talked to my doctor about it, he seemed pretty certain it was all anxiety related, but I really have no idea what others feel in a GAD or panic attack situation so I thought I'd come in here and describe it and ask.

Anyways, thanks for your time look forward to hearing from anyone who wants to comment .