Many people with anxiety feel as if they're going to go crazy, but they don't. These feelings are common with anxiety. They're troubling but nothing to really worry about. Crazy people don't know that they're crazy.

Anyways, I hope that this helps.

I do not believe it can caus psychosis. It is a common symptom of anxiety and panic to feel like you are "going crazy" but your not. Its just the anxiety, its your brain telling you that your in hyperdrive and it needs to relax. I know the sensations can be very uncomfortable but rest assured you will be fine. Like briman said, people who are really crazy dont know it because their thought is distorted to where they think they are being rational when they aren't.

You will not go crazy. You will not go insane.

If that were true the whole world be crazy lol. Your fine and it does and will get better:)

I have been there k, you are not going crazy! When my anxiety was really bad a number of years ago, I thought everyone was out to get me. I thought nobody liked me and that people on the city bus were plotting to kill me. It was crazy stuff and I knew how crazy it sounded, but I couldn't help but feel it, and it felt so real. Now I look back and I feel a combination of sadness for myself in that state and a sense of relief like you wouldn't believe that I got help and that I can function normally again. I still have my moments, but I know that I'm not crazy and neither are you.

I know..its really hard. I get obsessive violent thoughts at times and while I don't believe I will ever act on any of them sometimes it's hard to figure because I also feel as though I am going insane. Everyone, therapist included says that I will never act on these and that it's just anxiety but I get really frightened at times. i don't want to go to a mental facility but I am so scared of going crazy.

Or is the psychosis already there, and the anxiety is a rebellion against it?

But let's not focus on anxiety OR psychosis at the moment...those words only bring about more of both, and you don't need that...let's use the words "calm during a storm", "relax", "meditate", etc.

Words are powerful, and you really have to watch what words you put in your brain!

No. The difference is that with anxiety, YOU are controlling your brain. Everything your brain is making you feel is in response to the worrisome thoughts that you think. With psychosis and schizophrenia, your brain is diseased and IT is controlling you.