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Open Question: I had two severe anxiety attacks and a few minor ones a month ago and I’m still feeling the physical symtpoms?

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Open Question: I had two severe anxiety attacks and a few minor ones a month ago and I’m still feeling the physical symtpoms?
I always thought my constant worrying about everything, my fear of catching a major disease, something horrible happening, etc. were all just part of my personality.
Then about a month ago I started not getting much sleep, not eating breakfast or lunch and it pushed me over the edge.
I had heart palpiations, headaches, dizzyness, feeling I was losing control of my mind (like I would wake up as a different person the next day), feeling I was going crazy, intense fear, and when I looked at things they just looked weird. Like I was playing my guitar in my rrom trying to chill myself and I just looked at my hand and I was like “that looks so weird…. wow is that what reality looks like.” Very weird feeling. I felt I wanted to run out of my body and fly up into the air. I felt I was going to have a mental breakdown and lose control of my thoughts and actions; basically lose myself.
So I went to the ER cz I thought I was having a heart attack. The doc told me it was anxiety after checking me up.
I’ve reduced my stress sense then, but my depression has gotten MUCH worse and I’m just recovering from a severe episode right now.
Yet I still have the physical symypoms of anxiety… headaches, muscle tension, and this weird feeling in my neck and head like I can’t sustain my head or something weird like that. I feel lightheaded and fatigued, disoriented, and just generally very sore.
I noticed EVERYTHING, all my symptoms went away during spring break, but then came back the moment school started.
I’m just afraid of my life there is something seriously wrong with me. Everytime I read about a new disease I think I have it…
Two doctors and my parents and everyone are telling me there’s nothing wrong with me yet I fear I have things like lime disease, brain tumor, or some other life-threatening illness etc. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about…. And incredibly sad.
I’m going to my second psychotherapy session tomorrow.
I’m 17 by the way.

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:09:34 GMT

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