I have gotten sick from anxiety before. Things that helped me was writing out what I feel makes me most anxious. I then wrote how I could fight the anxiety. Deep breathing on the drive to work should help get there and help through the day. Focus on what you are doing second by second so your body and mind doesn't overload.

Absolutely I've made myself sick from anxiety. There have been times things at the office have been so bad that I start getting sick on Sunday afternoons just from thinking about going back to work on Monday. Usually there has been some kind of issue at work that has me upset. What has helped is self talk. I tell myself "it's ok, nothing is going to hurt you", "what is the real story behind why you are feeling this way", "what are you afraid of"...etc. I know if I've called off it's difficult for me to go back to work the next day. Is it guilt that I'm human and I was ill? I don't know. But I know what you are going through, been there. I know that cold medications also tend to get me worked up...could it be that? Try to relax. Lay still with your eyes closed and start mentally and physically relaxing each body part from toes up to your hair. It works for me.

I had a job a while ago where I was very badly marginalised, during the worst time of my life so I was anxious anyway; but being mistreated and ostracised at work was very hard.

I had to keep going: solo mother, starving children etc. So I hunkered down. I endured like a tick. Like a concrete block in a hurricane. I just battened the hatches and expected my life to be one long anxiety attack from the moment I left home, to the moment I got home again. It worked.

Because I expected to be in one long panic attack, I would talk to myself: don't speak, don't tell how you are feeling, if someone says hi say hi back. Time was a big deep bubble of hell for me. Bottomless but fluid. I gritted my teeth and I put one foot in front of the other all day long.

I had to wake early in the morning, because the morning panic attack would send me sideways. I would have cried myself to sleep the night before, i would wake, and within 30 seconds the memory of the life I was having to endure would land on me and the anxiety attack would hit. I had to have 1/2 hr lying there in bed just to get over it, before I could get up. So I set my alarm 1/2 hr early.

Think of this hell as a kind of gauntlet. A trial by fire. If you can overcome this: if you can storm through it, nothing will ever be as bad again. Partly because you'll never let it, but partly because you will have faced and overcome the demon.

So go to work tomorrow, and the next day, and all the days you have to, and get those hours. In a month this hell will be over: but what will you have gained? You sure don't want to have to do this again.

:)