Short answer: it's anxiety. Just the fact that you acknowledge that you suffer from "health anxiety" pretty much confirms that. Maybe that is oversimplifying, but just the fact that you are...

You should be proud of yourself! It is easy to give in and give up. I agree that you just have to take things one step at a time. The minute I start worrying about the future, tomorrow, 5 minutes...

I have definitely experienced the indigestion, acid reflux for me caused my esophageal sphincter to spasm which kinda felt like my heart skipped a beat or was stopping. Was really scary the first...

Thanks for the replies. This isn't anything new for me, my sleep cycles are horrible. It gets better and worse depending on my anxiety level. My anxiety is on an uptick these past few weeks so I'm...

Thanks gypsy I'll check that out. The underlying low self worth is really what drives my anxiety. Otherwise it would be just like any medical condition that I would need to deal with.

Had some vivid weird dreams all night long and woke up with some crazy bad morning anxiety. The last part of my dream I can remember was I was in a park and there was a man with a knife in his belt,...

Sounds good! Hope the new meds help. There is no such thing as a weird anxiety symptom, it can cause so many things. I've been dealing with anxiety going on 20 years and every so often I'll get a...

It is not stupid. The problem with being anxious about an event that hasn't happened yet is you can tend to set yourself up to ruin a perfectly good trip because you've set your mind up to...

I am a bad sleeper period, I wake up in the middle of the night all the time, so anxiety per se doesn't always wake me up. However, if I had been anxious during the day, or stressing about any...

I've never experienced this per se, but I definitely am more jumpy overall when I am anxious. Your body is being flooded with adrenaline and cortisol when you are anxious/panicky, same as it would...

Could be mania, or just surges of different hormones. At first I thought it sounded kind of like depersonalization or derealization, and it might be, google it if you've never heard of it. I...

I like this idea, there is societal pressure to keep your feelings to yourself and not feel too sorry for ourselves, but that doesn't stop the feelings from occurring. Better to let them out among...

I have been experiencing this too, for me my chest feels really tight when I am exercising. It is an odd feeling, but hasn't really caused me to panic too much. I have found it decreases as I keep...

I have not had amnesia in the sense I actually forget anything that happened to me but I do find sometimes my anxious periods seem to be a bit of a blur. Like Salvator says, you do go into sort of...

Thanks, Josh! I do hate the weekend anxiety. It becomes a vicious cycle because even if you are not too anxious during the week, you start anticipating that you will be anxious, and so you...

I will say this, I can understand feeling disconnected from everyone else in my life. I can understand the feeling that my relationships are insubstantial, not having any deep connection with...

I put Lola to sleep yesterday morning. It was distressing but just in time, as she was starting to get fluid in her lungs and having a hard time breathing. As with her illness and decline, I was...

Synner, that is a great idea! I don't suffer from health anxiety per se, but I have had some health/anxiety scares in my time. The best policy is just to stay off Google completely, but if you just...

I haven't posted in a while because my anxiety has been very low to nonexistent the past 2 months or so. I've been eating a lot healthier and exercising a lot more which is helping a lot. However,...

While I agree that avoidance is a horrible coping technique (been there, done that, still doing it) - after 20 years it is easier said than done. That's why we're all still posting here on this site.

That is great Dizzy! Thanks for coming back and saying that "hey, the fear passed and I'm ok now". A lot of us come on here when we are in the midst of anxiety to vent, but don't always come back to...

It is important to keep breathing even in the midst of a panic attack. Easier said than done I know, but it is just a matter of purposefully taking slower, deeper breaths as best you can. It's also...

Look I understand, I hate change too! However, your boss isn't really more of an asshole than anybody else. Usually bosses do get to set your schedule as they see fit. You can't expect your job...

Well if you are taking prilosec it is for acid reflux, which occurs when the sphincter between your esophagus and stomach lets stomach acid out which is the cause of the burning. Like the others...

Huan, I am of the opinion that we are never really "cured" of anxiety, some of us will always be prone to it biologically or psychologically. However, that doesn't mean you are doomed to suffer from...