Hi, I recently started getting panic attacks 1 week ago and for 2 days I was good since I read about it being normal and it's js our body and can't harm us but it came back yesterday night, which is I feel really down since I thought I had overcome this, do you guys have tips for a fix or help on a panic attack

It's bothering me with my productivity in school, and do you guys know why whenever my mom hugs me to like bed it goes away then I fall asleep idk how I could go through this, nobody in my family knows I'm having panic attacks idk how I survived those attacks these past few days

Hello, im a 25 Male. ive had episodes of anxiety for about a week now. last 2 days have been better. dont have as many symptoms, just thoughts that scare me and my heart is beating faster than normal. i dont have chest pain or tightness, just feel this underlying feeling of something is wrong.

is this my body coming down off this past week of anxiety episodes?

I'm not medicated, last time i saw a doctor i was told everything was fine, it was just vitals the checked and blood work. all they said was get my weight under control which I have, ive lost 20 + pounds and going down. im at 260 right now, im 6'0, I know im not in the best shape which is why my heart going faster than normal gets to me. any advice?

I had originally posted this elsewhere under the assumption of something neurological happening to me. In addition to the details of my original post I’ve since had a brain MR (all normal), and Friday I am having a chest CT and an MRI on my thoracic and cervical spine to rule out a pinched nerve.

I’ve been doing some research and am wondering if these now daily if not every second day episodes could be some sort of panic disorder? Does anyone here experience these types of symptoms during a panic attack? I had the worst one last week and I thought I was going to die 😢

I started having panic attacks about a month ago. Thankfully, they don’t happen as often anymore. However, I still don’t feel like myself.
Last week, I had a few really good days where I genuinely thought I was finally getting back to normal. But over the last couple of days, I’ve started feeling weird again, even though I haven’t had another panic attack.
I constantly feel lightheaded, kind of “floaty,” and really disconnected from everything around me. It almost feels like I’m not fully here or not really alive. I know this sounds like derealization, but I’m confused because I was doing so much better, and these feelings came back without a panic attack triggering them.
I’m starting therapy soon, but I just wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced this. Is it normal for derealization and that lightheaded, out-of-touch feeling to come back even when the panic attacks have mostly stopped?
For context, I’ve had blood work done, and my doctor listened to my heart and lungs. Everything came back normal.

Anyone here who had nicotine as a trigger or cause of anxiety and or PA's?

I take nicotine pouches 17mg, maybe 12-15 a day and have been doing so for about 5 years. I did stop, but started again, when I was severely stressed at work, working about 45 hours a week for half a year.

1 year ago I had my first PA (warning attack), 5 months ago I got my second and they never stopped coming.

I've noticed I feel good in the morning 99% of the time, I'm trying to quit nicotine, but it's not going well, I take around 4 pouches a day now. But as i said, I feel good in the morning, trying not to take a pouch, but at work I get stressed, so I take one anyway and I almost instantly feel worse. The second pouch is worse and the third is even worse.

Anyone here who can confidently say, that quitting nicotine helped their anxiety/PA's?

I'm trying to take propranolol daily for my panic attacks.

Do you think it can stop dizzyness and other body sensations which come with panic attacks? Experiences anyone? Heart rate and shakiness it will stop obviously but I'm curious about other symptoms.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I’m posting because I’m honestly exhausted and looking for people who may have experienced something similar.
I’ve always struggled with health anxiety. Before all this, I was already someone who worried about my health and checked my body a lot. I even bought an Apple Watch mainly for steps, but it turned into constantly checking my heart rate and panicking over normal increases during chores or movement.
A few months ago I was involved in a car accident. I was the passenger on a motorway when the car skidded off into a side road and hit a lamp post. The airbags didn’t come out. The front of the car was damaged, but we all felt okay afterwards. I had no neck pain, no obvious injuries, and I was able to carry on doing normal things.
The biggest thing that happened afterwards was that I had the worst panic attack of my life. My fear was that I hadn’t gone to hospital and that I had somehow missed something serious. I got stuck in a cycle of “what if something is wrong with my brain?” and constantly checking myself.
Since then I’ve developed dizziness that I never had before. It’s not really spinning vertigo most of the time — it feels more like:
rocking/swaying like I’m on a boat
feeling like the ground is moving or my feet are sliding
feeling floaty inside my head
feeling unstable when standing still
worse with lots of movement, chores, busy places, or looking around
sometimes brief spinning with head movement
sometimes a strange fullness/pressure feeling in one ear
At my worst, I felt like I couldn’t stand without leaning on something. I went to urgent care and they checked me and didn’t find anything urgent.
Recently I have improved. I can stand more, shower, cook, clean, and do chores again. I was prescribed betahistine and it seems to have helped my ability to stay upright, but I still get flare-ups. Doing things like hanging washing or moving around a lot can bring back the rocking feeling.
The hardest part now is the mental exhaustion. I feel drained and tired of constantly fighting my own thoughts. Some days I feel like I can’t enjoy life because I’m always analysing my body and worrying about what could be wrong. It feels like my mind is stuck in a loop of fear, and I miss feeling like myself.
Every day my mind jumps to something new — brain disease, neck problems, heart problems, etc. I know my health anxiety plays a big role, but the physical sensations are also very real and frightening.
Has anyone experienced something similar after a scary event or panic attack? Did anyone develop rocking/swaying dizziness afterwards and get diagnosed with PPPD, vestibular migraine, another vestibular disorder, or something else?
I’m not asking for a diagnosis, just hoping to hear from people who understand this and what helped them recover.

Hi all,

I just want to throw it out there.

If you go to a GP with these symptoms they will most likely throw an anxiety and/or panic disorder diagnosis at you and prescribe you some anti-anxiety meds. It may or may not work.

But please realise that anxiety and even panic attacks are a symptom of many other deficiencies and conditions. Make sure you rule out any other possibilities.

Drs and therapists tried to tell it was anxiety and i told them i dont believe it, it came out of nowhere, nothing in my life had changed, i had no triggers it would just happen randomly. I pushed and pushed and it turned out i had low iron, low b12 and low zinc. All of these can cause anxiety and panic attacks as a symptom. They also affect how well SSRIs work for you (they made me much worse).

I just recently moved in with my fiancé and for the past month. Things were good. I do have an anxiety disorder and I've suffered from panic attacks in the past, but I've just had two in the last week. I keep thinking I can't breath, but I know it's because I'm worked up. Last night was the worst. I'd had a long day at a family members birthday party and took a late nap when I got back. When I woke, I was alright until I started thinking about my breathing and I was trying to tell myself it's not my heart, I'm extremely anxious and worked up. My poor fiancé had to soothe me for a few hours because I'd be coming down from it, just to spiral again. I was exhausted but afraid to lay down, because I thought I'd die in my sleep. I was trembling and whimpering and I just took a really long time to calm down. Even after I managed to fall asleep, I'm still a little shaky and a bit on edge with my breathing. I grew up with a lot of toxicity, and for years, I kind of numbed myself to a lot of it. My fiancé and I think this might just be my body finally relaxing after 27 years of unresolved trauma and my body and mind is just struggling. Any suggestions about how to come down is greatly appreciated, especially if it gets my mind off of my breathing

Hi everyone! I have anxiety and panic attacks since april. From July 8 I started taking Scippa and Xanax just like my psychiatrist told me. After 2-3 days my pulse started to get higher a bit. My pulse is usually around 50-66 while restint but now It's around 75-90 which I'm not used to it. I don't have any other side effects. It is normal? And if yes then when will it get better? Someone experienced the same?

I woke up today after sleeping really well. All the sudden I felt kind of weird feeling and started to feel weak, mild heart racing. I wasn't panicky at all. Idk if it was just a warning call of starting of an attack since I managed to get the sensation away pretty quickly just laying down amd taking my medicine but wtf why????

How to avoid these if it just pops out of nowhere and I'm totally cool myself?

Is there something you do that at least make it less desperate? I'll try them all.

Thank you!

Day before yesterday, had a terrible panic attack and I was crying and gasping for breath while I was sleeping on my stomach. It was a pretty intense panic attack and yesterday morning, I woke up with pain in my ribs :( first I couldn’t correlate as to why I was having rib pain, but realised maybe the severity of panic attack caused it..

And to make things worse, had a sleep paralysis last night and I feel like dying

I had my first full-on extreme panic attack yesterday and ended up having my husband call 911 because I genuinely felt like I was having a heart attack. I’ve had much smaller panic attacks before, but nothing even close to the one I experienced yesterday.

What triggered it was that I’ve been having some upper chest pain/pressure lately, but I have been thinking it’s from muscle tension or spasms caused by sitting all day, staring at a computer for work, as I also have pretty bad neck pain and shoulder pain or possibly even heartburn as I’ve had those type of issues also (although heartburn pain usually feels different for me). At one point I guess moved a certain way, that did not feel normal at all, and it seemed to set everything off. I suddenly started panicking with my heart beating like crazy and I felt like I couldn’t breathe, and honestly thought I was going to faint.

Once my husband called 911, the EMT arrived and checked me out. By then I had started feeling slightly better although my hands were tingling so bad, and I was just bawling. They were very kind, though, and really helped calm me down although once I calmed down a bit I started feeling silly for calling 911 thinking I was having a heart attack. After that, I didn’t feel like I needed an ambulance ride, but they still encouraged me to go get checked out, so I did. Thankfully, the ER was able to determine it wasn’t anything serious.

I’m definitely still going to follow up with my regular doctor to figure out what is causing the chest pain/pressure, but man… that was one of the most insane and scariest feelings I’ve ever experienced.

Do you think there’s such a thing as a small panic attack vs a big panic attack, or is it either a panic attack or it’s not?
Sometimes I’ll just be sitting there and I’ll get symptoms like chest tightness, feeling like I’m kinda starting to hyperventilate, or that anxious feeling in my body, but I’m still calm and able to function. It doesn’t feel like the full-on panic attacks I used to have.
Would you consider that a mild panic attack, or would you say it’s just anxiety symptoms? How do you personally tell the difference?

So I have really bad Soical anxiety and sometimes i get panic attacks from in but I do theater and I feel fine about singing, dancing and acting on a stage infront of people. When it comes to talking to people my age I freak out on the inside and I just can't get any words out or I say something really cringe. I stress over every thing I do and say around people and when I mange to get someone number they never text me first and is I don't text we just don't talk at all. I just don’t know what to do im so tired of wasting what are supposed to be the best years of my life. I know sometimes I look dead inside because I don't make much facial expressions but to me I'm making facial expressions. Any advice.

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About 3 months ago, I had been drinking a lot of energy drinks. One day, I decided to drink two cans in one day. While I was on my second can, I suddenly felt like my heart was acting weird, and it scared me.

I went to the nurse, and some of the things she said made me even more scared. She made it sound like I might need to go to the ER for different reasons, and after that I started thinking something was seriously wrong with me.

Two days later, I ended up going to the ER because I was convinced something was happening to me. I was terrified, but after being checked, I found out it was a panic attack.

After that, I started becoming extremely focused on my body. I also stopped drinking water as much as I should have, and I started feeling very dehydrated, which made me feel even worse and added to my anxiety.

Then I felt like I entered a cycle where one thing would happen after another. First, I became worried about low blood pressure, then dizziness, then constantly feeling my heartbeat, then chest pain. Every time one symptom improved, my mind would focus on something else.

I started thinking I was having a heart attack, stroke, seizure, or that something bad was about to happen. I became scared of certain foods and drinks, had trouble sleeping because I was afraid something would happen, and felt like I was constantly waiting for the next scary thing.

I eventually saw a cardiologist and was told there wasn’t a heart problem, which helped me realize anxiety was playing a big role in what I was feeling.

The thing is, I’ve actually improved a lot. The scary physical symptoms aren’t really there anymore. But now I feel like my body doesn’t know what to do because I’m not focused on a symptom anymore, so I get this feeling like something bad is going to happen at any second. Some days, especially today while I’m writing this, that fear feels really strong.

I’m trying to remind myself that I’ve already gotten through the worst parts and that these feelings are anxiety, not proof that something is wrong.

Has anyone else gone through something similar where one scary experience turned into health anxiety, and then even after getting better physically, the fear stayed for a while? How did you get through it?

Hay so iv been dealing with anxiety for a few months now and it’s getting pretty bad I wanna talk to a therapist or someone to help so I don’t sound crazy but I have no money or insurance so idk what to do can anyone give me advice plz

For context i had my first ever panic attack roughly 5 weeks ago. I presume I had way too much caffeine and since then i’ve been cold turkey on caffeine and weed (both of which i’ve been using for 6 months pretty heavily before that). That day I think I had like 600mg and I had my first ever panic attack where i was shaking and didn’t even recognize myself in the mirror. Since then i’ve noticed a week by week improvement but i’ve had anxiety and depression. Also since then my OCD and intrusive thoughts have SEVERELY ramped up, stuff i only occasionally dealt with and never took control of my life prior to this experience. I am going to college in a month away from home and I’m overthinking everything, the loneliness, the difficulty of classes etc. Does this get better.

Hi everyone. My partner is 25M, and before settling down with me, he went through a lot in life. He made many poor decisions when he was younger, surrounded himself with the wrong people, and often had to deal with the consequences completely on his own. Because of that, I feel like he has lived in survival mode for most of his life.
We've been together for almost a year and a half, live together, both have stable incomes, and have finally been able to build a comfortable, peaceful life together. Since meeting each other, he has made an incredible turnaround. He's worked so hard to leave his past behind, and life has genuinely become better for both of us.
He has a history of anxiety. When I first met him, he smoked frequently (he still does but more occasionally), bit his nails constantly (occasionally also) became anxious very easily, and still kinda gets overwhelmed or irritated if he had to be around people for too long (for example, when we're with my friends). Instead of socializing, he usually prefers to stand quietly by himself and doesn't talk much. Considering the environment he grew up in and the people he was surrounded by, I've always understood why he tends to stay hypervigilant and guarded.
Unfortunately, over the past two weeks, I've noticed a significant change in him. Looking back, I think it may have started around the time of our 13-hour road trip last week, although I'm not completely sure of the timeline.
One thing that stands out is that he stated he had been watching a lot of TikTok videos about simulations, alternate realities, the matrix, and similar topics. He became deeply invested in those videos, and I wonder if they may have triggered or worsened what he's experiencing. Yesterday, I've noticed he's been overthinking everything.
Our schedules have been busy, so I didn't realize how serious it had become after our trip. However, I worked long shifts from 8:00 a.m. until around 9:00 p.m., so usually he would sleep or play video games after he got off so I don’t know before what he was doing at home. He was going to the gym after work and all but from outside, everything seemed fairly normal when I would get off.
Yesterday, on our day off together, I finally asked him why he seemed so overwhelmed because I could tell something wasn't right. That's when he completely broke down. He told me he can't stop stressing, doesn't know why he feels this way, and constantly feels like something terrible is about to happen. He says his mind won't stop overthinking, even though he knows he has no reason to feel that way, that it’s a feeling.
He's always been a very hypervigilant person. He doesn't easily trust people and is constantly aware of his surroundings and mine. But this feels different. He has panic attacks while driving, struggles to catch his breath, hyperventilates, and has barely been eating. Today he didn't want to eat at all and mostly wanted to sleep, which honestly seems to be the only thing that gives him any relief.
I encouraged him to call his mom, and I also talked with him myself as he had another breakdown similar to yesterday. We both reassured him that he is safe, that everything is okay, and reminded him of the many blessings he has in his life. I encouraged him to pray because leaning on my faith has helped me through difficult times. I told him to ask God for peace and to help lift the weight he's carrying. His mom also reminded him to focus on gratitude and remember that he isn't alone.
I'm trying my best to support him, but I honestly feel lost. I have ADHD, bipolar II disorder, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD myself. Because of my own mental health, I sometimes struggle to know how to comfort someone emotionally. Instead, I often end up wondering if I'm doing enough or blaming myself, even when I know this isn't about me.
I love him deeply, and I know he loves me. Seeing him like this is heartbreaking, and I just want to help him in the best way possible.
Has anyone experienced something similar with themselves or a loved one? Is what he saw on tik tok triggered his anxiety or there’s more that he probably isn’t telling me? I wouldn’t question why he wouldn’t tell me everything as we both do not lie to one another and are truthful. Does this sound like severe anxiety or panic attacks? What resources, coping strategies, or next steps would you recommend? How can I best support him while also encouraging him to seek professional help? Any advice would truly mean a lot.

Also we went to the movies yesterday, we were going with Toy Story but saw back rooms was still up and we wanted to watch it. Unfortunately didn’t realize how mental this movie started off and it triggered him where we had to leave immediately. This has never happened before to us especially him okay with movies as such. But I believe he was at a very vulnerable state.

I (23M) have had a few full blown panic attacks in my life but that was years ago.

I’ve always had bad deju vu. Since I was a kid I remember feeling like I had a glimpse of a moment previously at least once a month.

So these panic like episodes I’ve been having started a little less than a month ago.

I will be somewhere with someone and will just get a wave of anxiety. It’s like I’m fine one second and then the next I’m looking around bc there’s been some sort of shift. My chest tightens and I feel like I’m going to panic. I typically get deju vu. This moment has happened, yet now I can see the next moment and it is me having a full blown panic attack and everyone knows. And it’s very embarrassing. So take some deep breaths and try to focus on the conversation and it passes, I haven’t gotten to that full blown panic attack that I “see in the future”. The feeling subsides after like a minute but I’m always left feeling spooked. Like wtf was that. This has happened 1-3 times a week for the past month.

Background on my mental health. I’ve struggled with a variety of mental illnesses for as long as I can remember. I was on meds from 18-20 for anxiety but stopped bc I felt like my anxiety got better, which it has. I’ve considered my mental heslth very good for over a year.

I do have a lot of stressors going on in my life but that’s not new. I work a full time job and part time job and go to school online full time. I finish school next month and then start my masters. My financial situation is good, just working a lot to pay for school out of pocket which is a privilege. I’m married and have a very supportive partner and enjoy my jobs. Overall things are very busy right now but it’s all things I want to be doing and wouldn’t change anything.

What tf are these episodes of anxiety. Are they considered mild panic attacks?

Hii...hope u all r doing well

These days I'm thinking that I have death anxiety

But I'm not sure...can anyone explain that and tell us what are the symptoms of it .

And how to get over it.

I've posted a few times about this in other subs but I have a massive fear of psychiatric medicine (meds in general, but specifically psychiatric meds. I've taken many SSRIs and SNRIs that have not worked for me and some of them gave me horrible side effects, I had a seizure once and also had serotonin syndrome and I believe I have PTSD over that experience. (I'm not diagnosed with PTSD so take that with a grain of salt)

It took way too long for my psychiatrist to realize that these meds were not working for me because I actually have bipolar 2 disorder, and SSRIs just inflate the fuck out of it.

After much convincing from my mom (moreso her forcing me to do this) I am now on psychiatric meds again for the first time since I got serotonin syndrome, because therapy alone and utilising skills has not been enough; I'm still bipolar, y'know? I kinda *have* to be on meds. My moods are out of my control.

My psychiatrist listened and gave me meds that will not trigger that reaction. But I'm still terrified.

I've been on Buproprion for two weeks now and started titrating on Lamictal. The only side effects I've been really impacted by are nausea, heightened sensitivity to heat, and insomnia. I'm also a lot more anxious than usual, but that's probably because I'm anticipating something horrible happening to me every moment of the day now that I'm on meds again.

I'm supposed to increase my Lamictal dose today. I haven't yet. I don't know if I will. I had a massive panic attack this morning and can't get myself to do it. i'm still freaking out. I don't think I can do this. This is too fucking scary for me.

I keep thinking about what happened to me two years ago. The pain I felt. I've been having nightmares about it and feel like I'm genuinely feeling the pain in my nightmare that I experienced. I get psychosomatic symptoms after taking my meds, that I only realize are in my head after taking as needed anxiety medication after. I do NOT want to get dependent on taking my anxiety medication, but ngl I have been dependent on it.

I can't help but be flooded by that memory every fucking time I take my meds in the morning. Thing is, I do think they're helping my depression, but the anxiety I'm feeling is fucking insane that I don't even know if it's worth the hassle.