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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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NeedAdvice2013 08/20/2023

What has been your worst feelings/emotions during an attack?

Mine is almost symbolic of cardiac arrest--tightness in chest, pains in chest, trouble breathing, legs weak, sweat, feelings of doom, etc....

arfie 08/21/2023

my attacks feel like a fog bank over my entire mind and body. trying to pick my least favorite drop in a fog bank feels counterproductive. i change the subject to a more positive subject.

rmb 08/21/2023

For me, at peak anxiety I will feel a rush of heat that starts in my chest and moves to my neck and then my face. Happens very quickly.

Otherwise I tend to get what feels like live wires under my skin. Hard to explain but just this physical and mental buzzy sensation. It’s agitation. If I move around a bit, physically go into another room, or space, it subsides.

arfie 08/21/2023

rmb
i'm loving your description of live wires under my skin. yes, it is hard to explain. my longest running analogy is that a trigger event feel like sticking a fork in an electrical socket.

note: so far i've been able to resist sticking a fork in an electrical socket for a more accurate comparison. so far. . .

rmb 08/22/2023

That’s a great analogy, Arfie.

It really feels like electricity to me and sometimes it’s like a shock and other times it’s sort of this more subtle but still palpable sustained electrical current throughout my body.

Lifereallysucks 08/22/2023

Can't breathe
Don't want to move

arigrace 08/23/2023

for me i feel this tightening in my chest and throat. cant breathe. and yeah feelings of doom for sure.

EMC2 08/25/2023

It feels like all the air just got vacuumed out of the room and I cannot even draw a breath.... it feels like I will never breathe again... Like someone is sitting on my chest and I can't move.

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