I think one of the things that defines anxiety is that the fear we are feeling is irrational and comes from nowhere. I too feel like I am just losing my mind at times. I have made trips to the ER thinking that my symptoms were something serious. One thing that works for me is to immediately start doing something that I have to focus on when I start having symptoms. Even just coming to this site and writing to others gets my mind somewhere else, and the symptoms disappear. Best wishes to you!

My very first panic attack happened while I was laying in on the couch watching TV. I had to get up for some reason, and bam it started. It is amazing what our minds can trick us into believing.

The first attack for me was when i hitched a lift, The driver was--are you ready for this a --Doctor, and she didnt know what do.???

My first attack was extremely scary to me. I was on the computer, starting feeling really dizzy, like I couldn't control my brain. So, I laid on the couch & it got worse. My heart started beating really fast & I thought I was going to pass out, like the whole room was spinning. Fortunately I didn't faint but I did get really scared that I was going to die or something. It went away after about 20-30 minutes, but that was just the beginning.

I get the head thing too. It is anxiety and/or panic. I wouldn't worry too much about it. I don't usually have anxiety, I just go into panic mode.

Oh you are NOT alone. I fear everyday that something is wrong with me. The doctors keep telling me its anxiety, but i cant help but think that one day it wont be anxiety and they will just think it is and then i die. Its such a scary thought. No one ever understands what its like to feel like this. you def. think you are going crazy.

You are not crazy nor are you alone. I get the head pressure. I feel like something horrible is going to happen. Thankfully it does not. I have been told repeatedly that it is anxiety. And it is anxiety. I wish I had a magic wand to make us all feel normal again!

I too feel the same as all of you have said...I have made numerous trips to many doctors and a couple to hospitals as well because I swore something horrible was happening.

In the end though, it is always the chemicals released during an attack tricking me again. Through a therapist I have learned a lot about breath control and challenging negative thoughts, which has helped a lot.

I have been anxiety attack free for about 2 1/2 years and just within the last 3-4 weeks started getting the persistent, everyday panics I would get when first diagnosed.

I think that's where I am going wrong though..Ive gotten myself into the cycle of scanning my body for anything "abnormal" feeling and have grown to fear the panic all over again. Does anyone have a recommendation for stopping that fear cycle?

my anxiety attacks were so life crippling I had to get Xanax. xoxo, Gracie

I have a prescription for Xanax I haven't touched since this time 2 years ago!! I kept the bottle as a reminder that I was able to fight the anxiety without it, but now my anxiety has come creeping back:(

I took a tiny piece of a Xanax tonight hoping it would help me sleep, and here I am, almost 4 in the morning and on the computer!

throughout my life ex boyfriends and my parents have always said i worry too much, i blamed pmt and the pill. i didnt understand till last year when i moved outof my parents and moved to a completly new area with partner, then the panic attacks hit hard. they come from no where i panic about locking up the house, about what people think of me at work, that my cooking is not good enough. if i had known all those years ago i was suffering from anxiety not just being a worrier than i think i could have controlled these panic attacks better and understand it more. there are days im great back to my old self then there are days im too scared to go out of house because of my anxiety levels too high.
hugs for you your not alone out there hun x

i know how you feel i dont feel anxiouse like i know the instant anxiety when your frigtnened that doesnt worry me i know its anxiety it comes and goes. but the physicall feelings that are with you 24/7 that make you anxiouse becuase how do you know they are axiety i feel sick everyday no energy and blah blah just blah feeling i hat it sux to your told its anxiety but you feel physically sick all the time and its just ment to be not real when it is real and effects your life greatly