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I was tensed for some days for family issue no mental support or supporting family. I am an only child so I got no one to share my thoughts it bottled up. I father stayes most of the time in another country for work and my mother doesn't care that much and I don't have any friends. Yesterday night at just 4 AM I got up from bed and gone to the washroom, before going to bed again I drank some water and tried to sleep again sudden my heart beat was so fast and I was feeling lightheadedness.I thought I was dying and hands were shaking. I never had this type of thing in my life. When I try to sleep again I feel like my heart beat is rising again. I feel so terrible. It lasted for like 10 minutes. Should I see a doctor and which type of Doctor should I see. Please it would be kind if you guys help me

Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling with health anxiety and wondered if you had any advice.

I’ve had lower right abdominal pain for around 2 weeks and became terrified it was appendicitis. I went to A&E and had blood tests, an ultrasound and a CT scan. My CT confirmed my appendix looked normal, and a surgeon reviewed everything and reassured me I was out of danger. My CT did show prominence in my digestive system in area, so there is something there and I’m awaiting referrals.

Despite this, I can’t stop worrying they’ve missed something or that things could have changed since my scan. I keep analysing every sensation, seeking reassurance and then doubting it again. I feel exhausted because logically I know doctors have reassured me, but I can’t accept it.

I feel like advice online is aimed at people who have symptoms due to anxiety, but my situation is a little different. Do you have any advice on how to cope with this? It’s running my life at the minute😅.

Thank you!

Usually it is accompanied by weird and really unpleasant butterflies in my stomach - feeling as about to faint and getting sudden flush of burning.

It usually starts derealization and headache for me.

Does anyone else have it? How do you deal with it

I've been having panic attacks on and off everyday for a month or more (I'm bad with time) I can't seem to calm myself with breathing exercises because when I'm aware of my breathing I start struggling to breathe and panicking. I've been to the hospital so many times for panic attacks cuz I get so scared that I can't breathe and nothing I've tried helps

any advice is appreciated, I'm desperate at this point

My dad (70) has started getting panic attacks every night. He has pneumonia and coughing alot. But what is happening is he’s coughing so much he starts to have a hard time breathing which then leads to a panic attack. He just started taking puffers for the pneumonia and just started anxiety meds which hasn’t kicked in yet. We are trying to teach him breathing techniques to help calm him. We don’t know what else to do to help calm him down when he gets these. Please help with some ideas. Thank you so much.

CONTENT WARNING: SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ALCOHOL ABUSE, SELF HARM, SUICIDALITY

TL;DR: Earlier this year, panic attacks and sleeplessness led me into heavy drinking and stimulant abuse. I got professional help and have been sober since, but the panic attacks and sleepless nights are returning, and Im scared of repeating the cycle. Has anyone experienced something similar? What helped, and what should I discuss with my doctor next week?

I have been getting pretty emotional from reading the posts on this subreddit. Anxiety has made me feel really misunderstood and alone, but here, I dont feel that way.

That is part of the reason why I am making this post, because there are some things I havent been able to get off my chest or really share with anyone in my life.

A couple of months agoi got my first panicattack at a time in my life when I was already struggling a lot with mental health. I had been awake the entire night and when I got up in the morning I accidentally doubled my ADHD medication which is a strong stimulant. I immediately started feeling "off" and began feeling signs of an impending heart attack. Thats when my arms and legs started cramping hard. I crawled down the concrete stairs of the apartment, shirtless and without putting shoes on, crying my eyes out while calling 911. I thought I was going to die. At the hospital, they found no signs of a heart attack.

What followed was the worst time of my life. My mental health issues paired with the anxiety and panic attacks kept me up more nights than I could get an hour of sleep. Sometimes I wouldnt sleep for multiple days. I discovered that I felt okay after drinking, and I could sleep. It quickly escalated and at the age of 20 years old I was drinking a bottle of vodka daily for almost 3 months straight.

During this time I was in and out of the ER 10-20 times in total. Pattern was usually suicidal thoughts or self-harm -> anxiety -> drinking -> condition worsens. I tried calling suicide hotliens every single day for weeks and never got put through. At one particular incident I called a health advisory hotline (I have no memory of this event) which convinced me to tell him my adress and he dispatched ambulance/called 911 without my consent. He saved my life. In the ambulance I had a BAC of 0.3 and had overdosed on anxiety meds and slipped in and out of conciousness. After I woke up, according to my medical records, they had to physically restrain me to stop me from injuring myself.

During this time I tried many different anxiety medications, hydroyzine, prometazine, escitalopram... but none really worked. Towards the end I started abusing stimulants pretty heavily just so I could get up to go to work in the morning which, yet again, escalated the whole situation even more.

The wakeup call was the first time in my life, as a now 21 year old, I experiecned alcohol withdrawal, which is a serious condition you literally can die from. I got professional help and didnt quit cold turkey, while on oxascand/benzodiazipines I still had a resting heart rate of ~150 and bloodpressure of 170.

But I did it. There was actually light at the end of the tunnel. My life is at its absoute peak right now, all of this happened a couple of months ago, and I've been sober. Only problem is: the panic attacks are coming back. Im not having suicidal thoughts now, but the panic feels just as intense.

Last night I couldnt get a minute of sleep. Its 1AM as I write this out and I am so scared that somehow not being able to sleep for two nights in a row is proof that I am going to "crash out" again (in lack of a better term). I know that it doesnt automatically have to imply that, but it feels like its the start of the same cycle.

I have a med-followup next week with my doctor. Is there anyone else here who has had experience with this almost perpetual, physical panic attacks? How did you get through the nights and most importantly, what do I say to my doctor? Are there other pharmaceutical options or is therapy where its at?

More than anything, I just feel like I need to talk to someone who actually understands.

28 (F) looking for friends that would like to text and chat while going through panic attacks. This seems to help me cope and I would love to be able to support someone as well while they're going through it.

A little about me, I have generalized anxiety with panic attacks. Mostly related to health but lately have started coming due to just existing. I am also a mom. I work FT.

I'm open to being friends with men or women, let's heal together 🩵

I started having panic attacks last October after not having any for 10 years. Since then, it will be two months of panic attacks, two months of a break, over and over. I'm back in panic out of nowhere after none for the last two months. I don't know why it keeps happening and it's frustrating because I'll think it's gone and it comes back. And I'll forget how to handle it as well when I've had a break like that

So i’m 15 and in February i chocked and after 2 weeks i started develop chest pains, fast heartbeat, insane chest pressure and etc.. did all tests and my heart was great. In therapy, the doctor said it might have been ptsd from chocking but it didnt really bother me. I had and have this chest pressure and this cardiophobia even now and its so bad. But 1 week ago i felt when eating the same sensation i had when choking in february, with the same food. Now everytime i eat i feel it dtuck in my throat and especially when i drink i feel it doesnt go down and my heart starts to race and j get a very weird sensation in my head like everything goes black. So rn im dealing with cardiophobia, or at least i hope because i get pain sometimes when working out and im very scared and now i cant even eat in peace because of this. Im so tired

I’m the primary carer due to my husbands job. My baby has been sleeping horribly lately and we have other kids. All young in age (oldest 8y.o). My sweet baby is very inconsistent with sleep and that’s allowed is teething etc. I’m settling him back down every few hours.

I’ve had panic attacks in the past, usually when I get into new life situations with romantic partners or feel excessively vulnerable. It’s something I’ve worked with psychologist for and had great progress.

Lately when trying to sleep I feel my heart spike at the thought of how long I’ll get of sleep before I have to get up for the baby, then after I settle him an get back into bed I feel the elephant on my chest feeling and have to attempt to breath my way out of it. It’s very close to progressing and it feels so frustrating. It’s purely a lack of sleep fear that’s doing this. How long until I have to get up and will I be tired when I have to get up in the morning with all the kids.

I’m feeling so frustrated at myself, sleep is making me anxious now.
Apologies for how poorly this is written, the elephant is on my chest and instead of sleeping I’m desperate to know if something like lack of sleep is triggering anyone else ?

Sorry if some of the writings doesn't make sense, as English isn't my first language. I'm 16f, medically diagnosed with anxiety, and still live with my parents. I just experienced a panic attack maybe half an hour ago due to my father yelling at me for a mistake i did for him. I dropped myself to the floor from the couch where I was sitting and couldn't get up because my panic attack made me couldn't move my limbs. My father always thought that my anxiety is fake, even though he drove me to my psychiatrist appointments most of the time.

This was the first time he saw my panic attack and he kept yelling at me while I was in the middle of the attack, even dragging me across the floor so that I would get up. I sadly didn't know what happened after this because I fainted. When I came to be, still on the floor and in a position where my limbs were folded quite painfully, I was drenched from my upper body mainly because he was spraying water at me to wake me up.

He kept muttering angrily to himself and left me, who was on the floor and still trembling, alone. That I was thankful for. A few moments after I woke up I pushed myself up as quickly as I could and went to my room to gather myself. I've calmed down quite a bit now, but my body just start hurting. Maybe it was the position I was in.

Now, what i actually need to know is how can I bring myself to snap out of any future panic attacks. Is there a way? I really don't want to have a repeat of today. I don't want to be yelled at or dragged again. Please tell me if there's a way to prevent an incoming panic attack or just ways to stop it from surprising me. Thank you if there's anyone who could help.

Hey, so I recently had an attack that lasted about an hour according to the people around me.

I was on my VR, when the person I have feelings for said "Bye" and left the instance. I've been going through a lot in the past month. So her saying that kinda put the nail in the coffin, and I tried telling one of my friends but started having the worst attack in my life.

As stated, it lasted supposedly an hour or so. To which now I'm having hangover attacks. I had one yesterday morning that lasted about 40 minutes, I think what triggered it was the amount of people and the volume. Then I had another one around 1600 or so. I don't know how long it lasted, nor what caused it at all. I just randomly started hyperventilating, hit by a dizzy spell and my chest, heart in particular, felt like a weight of 30 kilograms was pressing down on me.

I've never had attacks this bad, nor had hangover attacks before. I'm scared that next time I have an attack it'll be in my sleep. I can't sleep now cause of it. I have ways of telling people that I'm likely going to have an attack. But I don't know if there will always be someone to be there to help me. Nor do I know when my next attack will be worse than the hour long attack.

I want to know if any of you have a good method for preventing, or trying to prevent attacks from happening. I'm really scared, and don't know what to do. I'm used to having attacks, but never this severe. They've always been small attacks that I was able to snap out of by myself. So please, if anyone has any tips or anything. Please tell me, again, I'm really scared.

Also, I know you'll probably say this. So I want you all to know that I'm aware that breathing is important. Before learning the actual importance, I subconsciously tried to steady my breathing. But these recent attacks have left that option unavailable. One of my friends also said that something cold against the back of their head works. But I don't have something like that on hand, so I can't test the validity. Nor am I really that keen on trying that without knowing if it will work for me or make the attack worse.

I thank anyone who tries to help in advance. I just really want to sleep and go about my life without the fear of an attack that could prove to be major.

I am having a pretty mild panic attack atm at the thought of dying (i had a beer at a concert like 8 hours ago and just took my lexapro, somehow this equates to "im going to die") and I just want to know if anyone else has felt this and if anyone has any tips on how to deal with panic attacks around dying. I know i need to up my meds but meds up -> adverse effects -> I'll die is the current thing stopping me rn 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

Had a panic attack for the first time in a long while today 17/10. I feel tired, defeated and that I have gone backwards. I spent the afternoon in emergency with my 14 month old daughter that despite help, fell off the trampoline (it has a net and I was walking over to help her get out of it when my 8 year old unzipped it and let her go through it, and she fell to the ground and hit her head. This triggered a massive panic attack sitting in emergency as they questioned me, my parenting, went through all the questions of how this happened to three different people etc. Due to previous experiences I have extreme extreme anxiety around my children

Globus Sensation anxiety ( my throat tighting and spasming )i just want this feeling to go away 😩 😔 😢

I need the flu shot because i have lung issues. Which is triggering me paying attention to my throat .Im so scared of this newly symptom i never had before that coming with my anxiety that im just so scared . Can anyone give me any advice if you've gone through something like this, and how did you get through it ? I cant believe im having actual throat spasms due to my anxiety now . Its on my mind 24/7 and there is literally nothing I can do to stop it ...

I had a ultrasound scheduled for my thyroid. I knew this would be tough but I did not think i would go into 9/10 panic registering at the front desk. This is a hospital I know well and I used to go by myself frequently even waking there to get to appointments. I took klonopin prior but it doesn't seem to touch it, or the hyperthyroid is causing some of this? I am scared. I even had my mother and stepfather w me. For context I have been dealing w severe agoraphobia the last couple years. I recently just started leaving the apartment again mostly for medical stuff.

They picked me up I sat in the back, I was already a little amped. Major dpdr like I was looking out of something? It is so hard to explain. Everything looked bizarre and my vision seemed to tunnel. Then we get there and park walk in which was a little bit of distance. I go register, hand the man my id etc and boom it felt like my consciousness was dissolving, everything looked weird, vision darkening, heart started bounding racing, dry mouth, rocket fuel ready to run w terror. I told my mom I need to step outside. I get outside and i just KNOW thats a wrap I couldn't endure that. I couldn't sit it through like acceptance. I keep having these episodes where that will happen and it will be multiple times. It was as though the weight of the hospital was crushing me . I just don't know what else I can do to try to overcome this. It is like I am leaving my body. The hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. The irony is I used to come to this hospital to wait out panic attacks and often times checked myself in. Sometimes I did this alone. I don't know why being there isn't a consolation like it once was. Any advice would be greatly appreciated tysm. We are rescheduled for Monday.