Bertie123
04-08-2013, 08:56 AM
So I'm dealing with anxiety problems for some three weeks now and would like to ask if my symptoms are regular as I constantly think if it's not something worse (though I have no history of mental illness in my family).
Namely, for most of my days I feel weird. Earlier it was some derealization, later it passed and became what I'm experiencing now - a weird feeling of confusion. For a large part of my day, even though I consciously know where I am and what is going on, I feel as if I didn't and get anxious about it. I also check the way I see and feel and try to compare it to "normal". That's why for most of my days feel as if everything was weird, though I don't know how to explain it better - I just sometimes feel as if I was copied and pasted from somewhere though I do not doubt everything is real. Sometimes everything just feels so distant and different, even when I think I'm not anxious. Today I had a while when I basically felt as I was watching my life rather than living it and even though I had full control, I felt as if I was inside my body rather than that I actually am my body. Often, when I'm busy doing something, everything is fine but as soon as I turn around to talk to somebody, I feel anxious about most of my gestures ("Have I always felt that way? Have I always thought what I am now? Was my speaking always so automatic, maybe it was more conscious?") and constantly ask myself if that's how I always perceived life.
As for physical symptoms, I sometimes get squeezing headaches, of course shortness of breath when I feel anxious and chills. The main problem of mine is that everything seems so strange and I constantly concentrate on myself and my feelings. Sometimes I just feel as if rest of my day was who-knows-when even though I consciously know it was just an hour or so ago. I'm not anti-social, I'm still very outgoing, don't have problems with feeling emotions, with coordinance or anything like that.
Is it just anxiety?
Namely, for most of my days I feel weird. Earlier it was some derealization, later it passed and became what I'm experiencing now - a weird feeling of confusion. For a large part of my day, even though I consciously know where I am and what is going on, I feel as if I didn't and get anxious about it. I also check the way I see and feel and try to compare it to "normal". That's why for most of my days feel as if everything was weird, though I don't know how to explain it better - I just sometimes feel as if I was copied and pasted from somewhere though I do not doubt everything is real. Sometimes everything just feels so distant and different, even when I think I'm not anxious. Today I had a while when I basically felt as I was watching my life rather than living it and even though I had full control, I felt as if I was inside my body rather than that I actually am my body. Often, when I'm busy doing something, everything is fine but as soon as I turn around to talk to somebody, I feel anxious about most of my gestures ("Have I always felt that way? Have I always thought what I am now? Was my speaking always so automatic, maybe it was more conscious?") and constantly ask myself if that's how I always perceived life.
As for physical symptoms, I sometimes get squeezing headaches, of course shortness of breath when I feel anxious and chills. The main problem of mine is that everything seems so strange and I constantly concentrate on myself and my feelings. Sometimes I just feel as if rest of my day was who-knows-when even though I consciously know it was just an hour or so ago. I'm not anti-social, I'm still very outgoing, don't have problems with feeling emotions, with coordinance or anything like that.
Is it just anxiety?