Anxiety Support Group
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...
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and have been having problems with anxiety for the past year or so. I used to get panic attacks every few days. I hadn't had a full blown one for two weeks, but I just had one now.
The panic attacks make me terrified of being alone. A lot of times, just like the one I had now, I feel like I'm choking, like there is something caught in my throat. I start to panic and try to swallow, but my throat gets stuck somehow and I can' swallow and I start to choke. It scares me so much. I don't want to die, but I always feel like I am going to. And then my heart beats so fast and even after I can swallow again I still feel so short of breath. I often shake really bad and I can't get the attack out of my head. I immediately want to run to my boyfriend or call my parents because they are all I've got. But my boyfriend is always away at work and can't always answer the phone and my parents don't really understand my anxiety, plus they live all the way across the country. I'm terrified of being alone with my anxiety and I don't know what to do or how to handle it.
Do any of you get these feelings or have any advice to help?
I'm new here and have been having problems with anxiety for the past year or so. I used to get panic attacks every few days. I hadn't had a full blown one for two weeks, but I just had one now.
The panic attacks make me terrified of being alone. A lot of times, just like the one I had now, I feel like I'm choking, like there is something caught in my throat. I start to panic and try to swallow, but my throat gets stuck somehow and I can' swallow and I start to choke. It scares me so much. I don't want to die, but I always feel like I am going to. And then my heart beats so fast and even after I can swallow again I still feel so short of breath. I often shake really bad and I can't get the attack out of my head. I immediately want to run to my boyfriend or call my parents because they are all I've got. But my boyfriend is always away at work and can't always answer the phone and my parents don't really understand my anxiety, plus they live all the way across the country. I'm terrified of being alone with my anxiety and I don't know what to do or how to handle it.
Do any of you get these feelings or have any advice to help?
I remember painting the house when the family were away, sleeping - heh 'sleeping' under my bed with a knife. I have never had that terror from being alone since, but it was unstoppable at the time and it lasted for days. I think I had to just consider that death comes to us all and hopefully I would be murdered while I was asleep.
Anyway you are not alone. :) It's just awful, but it does pass.