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...
We know what you are doing to make your situation worse:
What if'ing
Not sleeping enough
Not eating right
over thinking
So what are you doing to help yourself? You are obviously really stressed out and your brain seems to be pretty much begging you to take better care of yourself, so how are you doing that?
Are you resting more? Are you doing any relaxation exercises or deep breathing exercises? Are you reassuring yourself? Are you doing things to help take your mind off of what is going on?
If you aren't doing any of those things, then this problem isn't going to go anywhere. Nobody ever healed a broken ankle by trying to run a marathon.
You say you don't know what is causing your free floating anxiety, so I recommend going back and reading your posts for the last week. Read ALL of them. They are filled with terror and uncertainty and drama. This is why you are experiencing the effects of adrenaline.
Think of yourself as a pilot. And your brain is the co-pilot. Only the co-pilot has no windows. All of the information it gets, is from you. You have to describe the outside world to it. You have to tell it when there is danger so it knows when to fire the guns to protect you. You tell your co-pilot when to relax. And you tell your co-pilot when to be concerned. Your co-pilot is completely dependent on you. It trusts what you say. And it will not let you down.
And all you do is tell your co-pilot that you are constantly afraid and in danger. So he is back there firing away trying to get rid of the danger. But you never calm down and tell the co-pilot to relax, so it just keeps on firing. If you want the co-pilot to lay off the guns...you have to tell him you are okay. And you have to mean it. You have to learn some self reliance and some coping skills and stop freaking out at your own shadow. You've got to pull it together!
Doing all of the things I mentioned before will help send the message to your co-pilot that you are fine and calm and can handle things on your own. Getting him to believe it might take a while because he has been with you for a long time and knows you don't normally fly in peaceful lands.....but keep it up, and eventually he will get the message that your fighter pilot days are over. Good luck!