I get the same feelings of dying. Scared to sleep, can't eat much. I also am afraid to try pills cuz if side effects. I hate pills! Dr recently prescribed buspar, I don't want to take it! I did take half a valium the other night, it did relax me. I'm currently taking cbd oil.. It's all natural. You should check it out. I pray that you feel better.

Thanks for respondig. What is cbd oil?

Your story is amazingly similar to mine reneep31.
Hypochondria anxiety here for sure...and for years now off and on.
Also have ativan as needed which is a low dose of .5 mg which i usually always need one daily.
They help me for sure!
My doctor suffers from anxiety and i think that helps me soooo much knowing she understands it. She is on zoloft and xanax, she wants me to start zoloft but i decided not to at this particular time since the low dose ativan is working and in the past my anxiety has went away for many months at a time. Dont know if its going away now or gonna stay with me.
Im just trying a day at a time strategy.
And the fear of dying or having major health problems when there is none is a problem i have almost daily too! I can feel for ya there...hell, i thought i was having a heart attack earlier today just from a small muscle pain in my upper left chest near my shoulder!
I hate this and sm gonna check on thr cbd oil...all research ive been doing is AMAZING for working on anxiety and many other issues. My daughters bf uses it and he said it took hulis anxiety away and cured his insomnia almost instantly! I know its kinda expensive, but hopefully i can get aa script from my dr next appt.
Caligirl is right...check out some youtubes on cbd oil...you will feel great hearing there is hope...i did!

I just am so anxious all the time. I'm so sick of feeling this way. So tired of feeling dread and crying.

I am taking Paxil which helps. Try to journal about your anxiety and get the specific feelings and thoughts out to some degree. Try to build more confidence in getting through hard times when your anxiety is worse. In other words sometimes you probably felt like you weren't going to make it, but you did. Try to build hope that you can do better. Pick some small thing every day that you can choose to do and refuse to let your anxiety stop you. It will build confidence that your anxiety is not controlling you. Have you worked with a therapist? That helped me to be accountable to someone and keep making progress.

I have seen therapists for years. It helps with some things, but the physical symptoms I get from anxiety just freak me out so much! It seems like nothing can calm down my mind.