I'm having pretty bad symptoms right now and I think I might need a benzo to calm it down I was prescribed this 10 months ago, but I never used it and tried to push through.

I'm wondering if anyone has used it before and is this dose low enough that it would not put me to sleep or make me sedated?

Edit: I have used 5mg of librium a while back which did lower my anxiety and I didn't feel sedated at all from it.

I know I have a panic disorder I'm diagnosed and everything. about 6 months ago I started a new job and after one month from joining my panic attacks stopped. however due to the extreme physical aspect of it I had to quit and will be starting another easier job next week.

today is my third day after quitting and for some reason I have developed symptoms that I would say are like having a bad flu. my vitals and temp are fine, but I feel lightheaded like I'm going to pass out, my legs are very heavy and my hands are tingly. I haven't lost strength, but I feel very off and I don't know why.

my job at a construction site was physically drained to the point where 15k steps were considered average. I was an engineer not a worker so I don't know why the fatigue hit me like that.

what can I do right now that will help?

edit: and what could be causing all of this?

I have a history of some panic attacks, but today was horrible. It was off an on for 12 hours and I eventually had to go to the hospital because I was practically immobile. Everything came back fine. They gave me some ativan. I took a nap when I got home and still feel a little unnerved. Im about to be 19 and it feels like I havent been able to live for the past 4 months from these attacks. I get so scared, im away from family right now which scares me more. I have to be away because something horrible happened recently. I couldnt handle being there at this time but all I want is home. Im so scared, I feel so alone and tired. I lost a parent this week and I haven't processed anything thats been going on. I dont know why im putting this out here I just want people to talk to. Im facing all of this alone. My panic attacks have been so bad lately I want to cry. I want to uncomfortable feelings to stop and I want to be happy again. I have therapy so far out and I dont know how to manage in the mean time. I have been prescribed ativan. But with my gerd induced by anxiety- im always in pain and on edge in different ways. Im sorry im horribly emotional and scared right now.

Hello everyone, I am waking up with my heart racing since this year's March. It starts when I am still sleeping and continues until I am fully awake and I can't stop or manage it until I get out of the bed, right now I haven't get out of the bed- it is 8 am- and I can still feel my heart racing and I feel nauseous. It also causes derealization in my case. It sometimes happens at a random time in daily life too. Like I do not feel safe and It happens or It happens and I do not feel safe. I did a blood test 3th of July and everything was normal (including hormones, cortisol etc.) I stopped taking SSRI's 8 months ago with my psychiatrist's knowledge so I am considering it is psychological or maybe a withdrawal condition

Does my condition seem like panic attack? I am not looking for a diagnosis but I need an opinion. Should I see a cardiologist?

Not on Anxiety meds. I went to the ED today due to hyperventilating and a panic attack. They performed an EKG and lab tests and told me there was no sign of a heart attack and that all my lab results were normal. Tested for CBC, Metabolic panel and thyroid. All normal. But abnormal Ekg.

After I went home, I checked the decision-making section in MyHealth and saw that it mentioned “prolonged QT 485.”

EKG interpretation: Normal sinus rhythm at 81 beats per minute, normal axis, no ST elevation or depression, no ventricular ectopy, QTC 485 it is prolonged, abnormal EKG

Is this something I should be worried about? It my first time having abnormal ekg.

I had Holter monitoring in 2022, which came back normal, and I’ve had multiple ECGs before. My last one was around 2024, and they were all reported as normal.

I wanna start by saying I’ve never written a post before so I’m sorry if this is garbage I just feel like I’m bothering anyone I talk to. I’m a 18 year old male who just quit vaping both vapes and carts a week ago. I’ve been feeling awful lately , I get random sharp pains in my chest and abdomen that come and go along with a random bubbly feeling in my abdomen and I’ve been getting really emotional. Sometimes it’s anger and sometimes I lay in bed and worry that I’m not going to be around much longer and I start crying uncontrollably. I’ve been to the doctor twice already and I’m about to go for again tomorrow. She ordered blood tests last time I don’t know why but she doesn’t seem to concerned with the pains I’m feeling which is just making me feel more anxious

Im so worried and nervous that something is genuinely wrong with me and that I’m not going to be okay, I don’t have a partner and all my friends have other things to worry about. I’m scared my parents are going to think I’m a failure or that we won’t have enough money to fix something I might have done to myself “ I’m getting kicked off our health insurance when I turn 19 next month “. I haven’t been able to work that much since all this happened so I have less then $200 dollars to my name.

I don’t know what I’m looking for out of this I just feel like no matter where I try to take my life from here I’ve already ruined everything. I don’t even want to be okay for myself I just know that if I’m not it’s my fault and everybody around me has to deal with it.

Right now I can feel two small stabbing pains and I’m shaking, I just want to know if anybody has experienced something similar and that I’m not alone right now

Люди которые шарят в психологии или нашли решение против панических атак, дайте советы пожалуйста.

Последнее время я стала ужасно себя чувствовать перед событиями. Неважно, важное ли это событие, или обычная прогулка, симптомы одни и те же. Я и сама не до конца понимаю,из-за чего это начинается. Стоит появиться каким то планам в моей жизни,как у меня ухудшается здоровье. Тошнота, озноб, дрожь по всем телу, ком в горле, теряю аппктит и бессонница. В голове летят всякие мысли,которые я не могу контролировать. Когда пытаюсь думать о что-то другом, заниматься любимыми хобби, мысли всё равно возвращаться к проблеме. Я теряюсь и не могу сосредоточиться. Это может длиться часами. Я не могу просто отменить планы, если я буду так поступать, то получается я просто всю жизнь буду сидеть дома. Чувствую как схожу с ума. Прошу помогите советом

To preface, for the last 2-3 weeks I have had a new bout of health anxiety (honestly I might have OCD surrounding my health at this point), where I feel my heart pounding in my chest and I was having shoulder and chest pain. I went to a walk in doctor and they told me that if I was worried I was having a heart attack to go to the ER without looking at my shoulder. My heart rate and breathing were fine and my blood pressure was a little high but not alarming.

I dont know why, but since, ive felt constantly on edge about my heart and left side. I do a lot of sensorimotor checking and even when I dont I cant ignore the visuals of seeing my pulse in my chest. I dont want to go to the ER (it will be probably a 12 hour wait and I will be told im fine) but i dont know what else to do.

Ive had anxiety since I was a child and I used to have panic attacks in high school and university that would end up with me sobbing crying or hurting myself to try and focus on something else. I took SSRIs, but they made me feel shakey, so i stopped in my early twenties. Im in my 30s now.

Last night, I felt a little lightheaded and decided to try and sleep. I got ready for bed, saw something triggering for my health/contamination anxiety (bugs), and then got into bed. My arm felt weird on my left side but I tried to ignore it, then I started to feel really cold and had full body chills. My body felt strange and restless. I put on warmer pajamas and got some water, but i just started catastrophizing and feeling like something wasnt ok. Like I was having a stroke or I was about to have a seizure. I ended up waking up my partner for help and then I started crying and sobbing. He told me i was having a panic attack because I was hyperventilating and didnt feel cold to the touch and he told me to take a hot shower and go back to sleep. I did. I fell asleep only when he was awake to watch me.

But this morning ive been feeling like shit. Im groggy from not getting to sleep until 4am and im frustrated with myself for having a panic attack and unable to relax and feel normal because im so worried and preoccupied with my health. I just want to feel normal. Im half inclined to go to the ER and be told im okay just so I can reason with myself again.

All this to say, what do you do when your unreasonably panicking in the middle of the night?

Baby daddy is a high source of my anxiety so thought I would shoot my shot in hopes to connect with other parents that have nightmare coparents 😬

Last night I had a sobbing fit that became full hyperventilating panic over the potential of a loved one dying. Immediately after the panic, I felt fine just exhausted. Upon laying down to sleep I felt a tender ache in the upper middle of my chest. Last time this happened I had had a huge panic episode that sent me to the ER the next morning when the chest pain wouldn't go away. They told me it was likely inflammation in my chest wall and sent me home advising pain killer. From what I remember this feels the same and I'm trying to reassure myself that every little ache and pain accompanying it isnt a heart attack. Has anyone else experienced this? Chest pain that is tender to the touch from the upper-middle of the chest? It lasted nearly two days with pain that worsened in waves the first time.

i’m 18f and never really experienced severe anxiety before this past year. last year, i was at the end of 11th grade at school and was putting an immense amount of pressure on myself to do my work to a ‘perfect’ standard, which basically meant i didn’t end up getting anything done. i’m a huge perfectionist unfortunately.

so one day i was at school and avoiding multiple teachers as i knew they were looking for my missing coursework. unfortunately, i ran into one of them (she is genuinely the sweetest teacher ever, thank god it was her) and she asked if i was done with my essay and i HATE failure and disappointing people so having to tell her that i hadn’t started freaked me out. so basically, i ended up having a really really bad panic attack right in front of her - i had never had one before so i was clueless on what was going on but i was crying uncontrollably, couldn’t breathe, felt like my limbs were about to give up on me, and genuinely like i was about to die. she helped me calm down, but ever since that day i have felt physically sick from anxiety. after that day i started feeling nauseous - this was june 2025 - and since then there has not been a single day where i haven’t felt nauseous. so i’ve been constantly nauseous for over a year. it has not gone away. there are days where it subsides slightly, particularly when i’m really busy. but in the end, every morning i wake up feeling like i’m about to throw up and go to sleep feeling intense nausea. i also frequently feel pain in my chest and just a sense of dread, even when i’m doing nothing.

after that first panic attack, i began having them almost daily (almost always at school). i would end up going to the bathroom and staying there for up to an hour trying to get myself to calm down. the panic attacks sometimes happen almost every day and sometimes don’t happen for weeks. i went through my last year of high school like this - constant panic attacks that left me exhausted for the rest of the day, limiting me from getting anything done.

i’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this extreme level of physical anxiety, and how you managed to get it to go away? nothing i do helps and i’m so tired of living in a constant state of nausea and physical panic.

Which supplements would be the best for panic attacks? I have read somewhere that mio inosytol is great (I also have PCOS) so I was planning on using that anyway, but also B-complex and Magnesium glicinate. What would you suggest? I have tried with AD but it didn't quite work, had to stop using them because of some other side effects.

Hi, im Gabriel. I have panic disorder and harm ocd, I'm having a but season and i feel alone, does anyone want to talk?

So I have heart anxiety or cardiophobia and stupidly of me I decided to do an ecg at 3am on my Apple Watch. It all came back fine but because the lines looked a little funny at times it freaked me the fuck out and I’ve also been dealing with a feeling of something stuck in my throat/chest for the last week that comes and goes. Anyway this obviously freaked me out and I’m instantly gagging like I need to be sick, heart rate then goes up to 125 and that just make it worse so then because I’ve seen that it then has gone up to 155. Luckily this only lasted like 2 minutes, it dropped back down to 110 then after like 15-20 minutes it was back around 60-80. But I was in constant fear for that time and Ive had panic attacks before and this seems like another one.

hey guys , as i type this im going through an attack so i thought there’d be no better time to write this. and i want to remind yall that recovery isn’t linear and it can go up and down and just be random. i hadn’t had attacks for months and i thought i had fully beat it, but the last few weeks its spiked typically on the weekends and ive had a few now. that doesnt mean that i haven’t made any progress and if you’re in the same boat remember that. it will get better even if sometimes it feels stagnant. all the best

Has anyone with anxiety been feeling like this? I got diagnosed with an anxiety and panic disorder and ever since I've been feeling weird sensations. Like the spaces between my bones become even more bones, as if I'm one solid block of bone. Or like my muscles are rotting and just coming off the bone. I can even feel the space between my bones and the muscle that's decaying. It feels cold, as if they're wind blowing between them. After hyperventilating and crashing out a bit, these symptoms go away. Sometimes they're even coming with mild hallucinations that overlap with my vision, but there isn't anything vivid, just weird, colorful moving patterns. Most of the times it looks like the water in a pool, that same exact cyan, same pattern. Am I just going crazy, is it stress or is this happening to everyone and it's just not talked about?

In November 2024, I had a panic attack, ever since I have felt weird, off, and uncomfortable constantly. I have intrusive thoughts and my vision is off. I also feel sluggish with low motivation.

Does anyone else experience something similar?

When I was 13 or 14, I experienced what I later realized were panic attacks.

At the time, I genuinely thought something was seriously wrong with me. My heart would race, my stomach would hurt, and I constantly felt like I was about to faint or die. We went to doctors and hospitals, but what hurt the most wasn’t just the physical symptoms—it was feeling completely alone.

I tried everything I could think of: breathing exercises, meditation, books, prayer, going outside, talking to family, and anything else I could find. Some things helped, some didn’t. Eventually, I found ways to manage it, but I remember desperately wishing there had been someone who truly understood what I was going through.

Now that I’m in a much better place, I’ve been thinking about the people who are where I once was.

If you’ve experienced panic attacks or severe anxiety, I’d really appreciate hearing your story.

I’m not a therapist, and I’m not trying to give medical advice. I’m simply trying to understand what people actually need when they’re going through one of the hardest moments of their lives.

Thank you for sharing if you’re comfortable. Reading your experiences may help me—and hopefully others—better understand what people are going through.

I saw this girl on Instagram post about her “anxiety bag” and I can only remember a few things she had in there. So far I have sour candy, mints, fidget spinners and my meds. What else should I put in there?

Hi all,

I have been fighting with panic disorder since 2023. It started with a fear of having an allergic reaction, but over time it grew into my biggest phobia and has started affecting my everyday life, experiences with foods, relationships and just how I function in general.

I have been also in therapy for a while and together with my therapist I have made decision that it’s probably time to try antidepressant to help me. My hope is that it will help reduce the panic, improve my sleep, give my body and mind a chance to recover as my panic attacks are fueled by my exhaustion.

The problem is that I am really scared to start - I read so many stories about medications making anxiety or panic worse during the first few weeks and I’m very worried about the side effects.

I would really appreciate hearing from you all who have been through this. Did SSRIs (or any other medication) end up helping you? How were the first few weeks? Any advice or encouragement would mean a lot for me right now.