Beyond what you’re experiencing I want to congratulate you on having the strength to reach out for help. You need to follow through with your health care provider and share with them exactly as you have done here. They can address your fears on illness directly as well as either prescribe for you or refer you to a psychiatrist for your anxiety and panic issues. You’re at a safe space and can develop some tools of your own to utilize when you feel the signs of an anxiety attack coming on. This will take observation on your part to recognize patterns of fear that lead up to a panic attack. With the right tools to use you can have an actual life saving method in place to help yourself. Gentle blessings of peace for you.

Hello Anonymous1996,
I am so sorry for how you feel. As a person who has been suffering from anxiety disorders for 6 years now, I can totally imagine what you're going through and how horrible the panic attacks can be. I agree with ghost dancer that you should see a therapist who could guide you through counseling and if necessary medication.
Hugs,

It's good that you're listening to your body, because if you feel sick you probably are. Anxiety and depression can be caused by infections. My mom and I have had anxiety and depression from the moment we got sick with a chronic enterovirus infection 7 years ago. It was like someone flipped a switch. Check out the Enterovirus Foundation and Enteroviruses .com websites. That might be what you have. Millions of people are affected but the medical establishment is woefully ignorant. There is also a book called Infectious Madness that links mental problems with infectious diseases. The author was on the Dr. Oz show a couple years ago. Mom and I take the B vitamins niacinamide and inositol for moderate anxiety and add the prescription drug propranolol when it's worse.

Obviously I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone, but have you looked into 'health anxiety' or 'illness anxiety disorder'. It used to be called hypochondia. I go through bouts where I do similar things such as googling my symptoms for hours or worrying that I have a yet to be discovered disease. It really stems from the unknown. Of not knowing what's wrong and feeling powerless.

There are therapists who specialize in this field and from what I read it's considered to be a possible offshoot of OCD.

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you are able to find some peace. Feel free to message me if you need to talk.

I was thinking about what the answer to that same question could be earlier today and came up with: If you change your life to make 50% of everything you do in your life FUN, that will cut your worrying down by 1/2. That's a start.

Been there done that my friend! I'm 47 and I've had General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) since I was 7 years old. Trust me, in my mind I have had every disease you can imagine! Of course I had NONE of those disease's but my brain had me convinced. Definitely talk to you doctor and have blood work done as you should always make sure all is well. Once you know it's nothing physical then talk to your doc about meds for treating anxiety/depression. Usually the two go hand in hand. I've been on Prozac since 2009 and it truly does make a difference but they take up to 6 weeks to start working.

Anxiety will lie to us and tell us nothing but worst case scenarios. The thing is even when my worst case scenario DID happen it was actually less tragic than my stupid anxiety made it out to be! Anxiety is worse than ANY of it's lies that it likes to tell you.

Again, please talk to your doctor and make sure you are physically good. The feelings of anxiety can be debilitating and they do make you feel like something is very wrong. If you're physically good than let's start fighting that anxiety and let's start with some meds from the doctor. Also, check out the link below. It's a blog that really helps me. Google GAD or General Anxiety Disorder too as there is a ton of information. Please keep us posted :)

http://theworrygames.com/