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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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Don't Know What I'm Feeling

NikkiInTheDesert
NikkiInTheDesert

I developed a new and terrifying symptom I think is related to anxiety, I think some people and professionals refer to it as dread; however, I'm not to sure. I start feeling a deep feeling of agitation and an all around sense of feeling as though I'm going crazy and want to die. I just don't feel normal, I had a pretty good day yesterday;nevertheless, today I started feeling all of the above. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Tashio2x
Tashio2x
Yes. Its probably a mixture of anxiety and depression but I felt that exact feeling of dread back in middle school when times were normal lol. When I described it as dread my psychiatrist took it as me trying to say I was depressed and turns out he was right I just didn't know it. I didn't know I was depressed even. But it would happen every fall and winter in particular and therefore was diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder which is basically just depression only in those seasons. The medication I take for it is immensely helpful and that's how I know the diagnosis was correct! But in this time I think its normal for everyone to be feeling a bit depressed and anxious so this feeling of dread might pass whenever this whole situation does. But the only thing that helped me was the medication, otherwise the feeling would not go away ever no matter what I was doing.
NikkiInTheDesert
NikkiInTheDesert
This started before this whole COVID-19 crisis; however, it went away. Now it's back and absoulty terrifying.
Trudy1021
Trudy1021
I can be fine for months and then poof dread thoughts and I start catastrophic thinking. And then I tailspin as I call it. Especially with everything that's going on now. By the way I am new here I really need to find a site/people to work through this with who could relate Hi.
arfie
arfie
Dunno if ^it^ is the same, but my anxiety has quite allot of levels and types. I couldn't tell a proverbial zebra from a horse early on, but the longer I practice with my anxiety management tools, the more my awareness of those levels and types grows.

Could this be a similar phenom? Perhaps you are mistaking a new awareness for a new symptom?

For what it's worth
My heightened awareness was uncomfortable at first, but since it has normalized, that awareness has put extra oomph into my anxiety management tools.
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