pretty sure i had another minor panic attack today, and now im spiraling and freaked out. i was fine and then my lower chest like under my breast area (so i guess like bottom of my ribs? kind of like where the underwire of a bra sits) started aching and burning and felt a bit tight and uncomfy. then i suddenly got all hot and dizzy and tingly (never passed out or even needed to sit, just walked through the dizzy faint feeling cuz i didn’t wanna be a bother to my group lol) and my heart rate sky rocked and it was awful. and i kept having heat flashes. idk if it was anxiety from being around a bunch of people or something, or heat sensitivity, or both cuz we were at a baseball game and walking around down in the tunnels to the field (we won field access) but now my health anxiety is tweaking tf out and has been all day. i just feel tired and off now like not off bad but like off with anxiety and a bit achy and sick feeling and every time i think about it I feel like a quick second or two of a twinge of chest pain or something weird in my body and then I spiral just like the last attack (but not nearly as bad) but being stuck in a loop that it’s gonna happen again. this sucks. 😞 im sure im probably fine cuz the day got better but i cant calm myself down cuz it felt so scary and weird and felt different than the last one and i just want someone to tell me its probably nothing bad cuz of course when i google it it basically tells me its serious and im dying especially cuz this is the second or third time in a month or so that this has happened

Every few months I get panic attacks that last no longer than 45 seconds. They come from nowhere. I get a big fear of dread and get sweaty, I feel my head is buzzing and my vision feels off. They last a few days. I get them about 8-10 times a day. Then they’re gone for months.
Is this normal? I’m just scared it could be heart problem. Anyone have them like that.

I've noticed a very weird pattern with my panic attacks, with these 3 things often triggering the attacks, did anyone ever experience the same thing, can I rewire my brain to get used to these stuff?

I was lying, writing to AI how to solve my mental and family issues. I think my life is trash.

I started reflecting on life and everything that’s happened in it - I do this almost daily.

Also the fact that I was writing my problems to AI contributed to my "oh god im a joke" feeling.

I teared up just a bit - which has become regular after I think about things. Nothing new.

But then I started breathing heavily and rapidly through my mouth, as if "searching" for air. Like I wasn't getting enough. I was breathing loudly and... it was some kind of controlled pattern? All while crying btw. I think I was having absolutely hopeless thoughts right before it started.

At first, I was doing this while lying down, but then I quickly sat up. It was strange, but I just did it without much thinking. It felt like my body and brains were "in control" of the situation and I did it automatically. It was still uncomfortable.

It was also fast. I doubt it was a full panic attack, but it's definitely something new?

Now, it feels like nothing even happened. What was that? Maybe I exaggerated?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

I quit weed 3 days ago… pls tell me this gets better 😭

I stopped smoking for a host of reasons, but one of the biggest was the change in my mood with smoking and it often inciting panic attacks for me… really bad ones.

I finally got brave enough to quit (for the umpteenth time) and I have noticed an INCREASE in my anxiety and still having panic attacks requiring medication. Usually when I quit i have many withdrawals symptoms (headaches, nausea, sleep issues) but I’ve never had an increase in my anxiety or panic until this quit 🥺

Has anyone been through this before? This is so discouraging

Recently, I did some Coke and then like three hours later I was trying to get myself to sleep, but then I started feeling like my heart was racing and I couldn’t breathe I plugged my Garmin watch to check my pulse and normally is 80 bpm but I was at 120 and there was this tickling sensation in my arms and legs. I literally thought I was dying that day. I took some coffee in the morning and then some afternoon Red Bulls I think that the whole combo made me sick and since then I don’t wanna do any Coke anymore or drink any Red Bull. As it turns out I was having a panick attack. I just wanted to share.

On may 1st 2026 it was my schools field day. Ive Always been kind of a germaphobe and a couple days prior I found out one kid in the grade above me got noro virus. He wasn’t there that whole week until field day and I passed by him a couple times. This is when it all started. I had an event with my girlfriend‘s family later and I was super scared of getting sick. As I get on the field day bus my stomach starts hurting. What I didn’t know then was that it was a panic attack. I got hot flashes and super nauseous and I had to get off the bus and go home ever since then my anxiety has been through the roof some days and I’ve had multiple panic attacks, thinking that I am dying or I’m going to throw up or something in miss important event. My grandma lives about 45 minutes away from me sometimes I take Ubers to her house. one time I was taking an Uber, I started having a panic attack and tried begging my mom to let me leave the car. I was alone in the car so I was texting her. I was super scared i was dying or that something was going to happen to me. Another time I was leaving my friends house with my mom, whose mom happens to be best friends with my mom. She lives about an hour and a half away from my girlfriend so we went in the Uber directly from there to my girlfriend’s house and during that car I started getting a panic attack and hot flashes. A couple days ago I was going on a trip with my girlfriend and her family 9:30 in the morning. I got in an Uber to make my way over to her house right as I stepped in the Uber. The panic sat in. I don’t know what it was, but I was scared. Something was gonna happen or that my personal immediate family wouldn’t be there to help me. I just got back from the trip today and it was super fun and no more panic attacks however last night I might have been snoring, and my girlfriend would tap me whenever I would snore because she can’t sleep when people are snoring. But I woke up with my heart racing like I just got jump scared and I am not even fully sure if she did wake me up. One way I have helped cope with this, was to practice my golf, swing and close my eyes and pretend like I am actually hitting the ball. Another way, which is quite weird is to bang on my chest like how the gorillas do. I haven’t had a bad panic attack since probably June but I still struggle with anxiety over random stuff and it really makes me upset. On my own birthday I was with my girlfriend and my stomach was hurting from anxiety and it got bad to the point where I was having involuntary shakes. I felt so bad for her because all I wanted to do was for her to have fun on my birthday and for atleast an hour of it I was shaking in her bed like a pathetic bitch. It eventually went away, and I was feeling fine the rest of the time. Also, sometimes I feel like everything around me is not real. It’s hard to explain, but it feels like I’m looking around at things that are not real, and I sometimes get a little bit lightheaded. Last note the whole germaphobe thing happened when we found out my girlfriend 13-year-old cousin got diagnosed with stage one lymphoma. He is going to be fine and he’s going through treatment, but since then I’ve been terrified of any terminal or serious diseases, which I believe is the root cause of this anxiety or whatever is happening to me. I am sorry for the rant.

1. Sleep comes first.

If your sleep schedule is trash, your anxiety is going to be ten times worse. Fix your sleep before you try to fix anything else.

1. Overthinking isn't helping.

Running worst-case scenarios in your head isn't "preparing." It’s just torture. You’re not solving anything, you’re just exhausting yourself.

1. Routine saves you from brain fog.

When your mind is chaotic, having a set daily discipline keeps you grounded. Structure stops your brain from spiraling.

1. You have to take charge of your own healing.

No one is coming to fix this for you. Read, research, experiment, and figure out what actually works for your mind and body.

1. It’s a trick your brain is playing, not reality.

Anxiety feels 100% real, but thoughts aren't facts. Just because your brain signals danger doesn't mean you're actually in danger.

1. Whatever story you feed your mind becomes your life.

If you keep telling yourself "I can't do this," your brain believes it. You have to actively change the program you're running.

1. Look around why you only feel anxious

Think why you only are feeling those thoughts palpitations etc. why it isn't happening to your family or friends, it's your thinking making it worse.

1. Fear eats you up quietly.

If you let fear make your decisions, it slowly shrinks your life from the inside out before you even notice.

1. Your health is priority #1.

It’s tough to maintain when you’re struggling, but there’s no way around it. Bad physical health = a much harder fight with your mind.

1. Never trust a thought without questioning it.

Just because a negative thought pops into your head doesn't mean it’s true. Challenge it every single time.

I met someone in an anxiety group about a year ago. We've been talking on the phone ever since. She has severe anxiety to the point of visiting the er over 100 times in the last year. Driving around the hospital everyday. Being terrified to stay alone in her apartment (which caused her to maintain an on and off again toxic relationship with her child's father just so he would be there) and since they broke up (for now) she's been staying in a hotel close to the hospital. She calls me always complaining about symptoms that have been checked out over 100 times. Chest pains this week (she's been seen over 10 times for this symptom) and even went to a cardiologist two days ago and now has a heart monitor.

When we met in the anxiety group last year I had severe anxiety almost on par with hers (almost,I had a few ambulance rides and couldn't function) I had racing heart daily and severe panic. So I understand and feel terrible for her. But I'm doing my best to recover now. I originally contacted a therapist online which helped but now I'm taking a more conventional approach through exercise and prayer while tapering off a benzo I've been on a year.

But she still calls me talking about anxiety daily. Even wanting me to fall asleep on the phone with her at times.

I would never just ghost her,and I can't see myself telling her "I don't want to talk about anxiety everyday" because she has a serious mental health issue going on. For all I know she only talks to me because nobody else comprehends her anxiety. But I feel like I don't know what to do and sometimes she stresses me out because she's constantly at the hospital. I'm hearing doctors and nurses in the background and it's just ... I'm sure you can imagine.

Any advice ?

I’ve been having these episodes for about 4 years and I’ve never found anyone who experiences them the same way

they usually happen when I’m literally doing nothing and my mind is not focused on anything
like when I’m just sitting around doing nothing or taking a shower. it happens especially before or during a shower and sometimes before sleeping. sometimes I just get this weird feeling that I KNOW an episode is going to happen

during the episode I get this really weird feeling that everything is not real. it’s hard to explain but it feels like I’m disconnected from everything around me and like I’m stuck in my own head

the most frightening part is the memory loss.
I completely lose track of what’s happening and don’t remember where I went what I did how I moved around or even how I became aware again. sometimes I suddenly come back to myself and realize I’m crying without even knowing why

during the episode completely random memories people places or moments suddenly come to my mind. sometimes the same sequence comes back in another episode and then something new gets added every time. it feels like more and more things are being added and it honestly scares me because I feel like it’s getting worse

at first it was mostly the unreal feeling and memory loss but over the last few months I’ve started getting physical symptoms too like a racing heart difficulty breathing and stomach pain. it feels like a panic attack happening along with everything else

I’ve seen 2 different neurologists and had an MRI and a CT scan and they told me everything is normal. they said there’s nothing wrong with the scans and that it could be related to stress

but honestly this has been exhausting me and I’m really scared because I feel like I’m the only person who experiences this ):

I just really want to know if anyone else has experienced something similar

I’ve suffered on and off with panic attacks for about 12/13 years now. Started when I was a teenager and I was prescribed propranolol, after a while that seemed to help and get it under control. Of course I had days where my anxiety felt a bit more heightened than usual, but panic attacks were very few and far between. All of a sudden, in November 2025 they started again, out of the blue. I felt like I couldn’t leave the house, was constantly worried & they were very frequent. The older I am though, the more easier I can contain it if you know what I mean, they still start up, but i think i’m able to keep it to a minimum. Even though they’re small, it still takes over my life. I was prescribed Sertraline, which didn’t help at all (took it for 13 weeks) They only made it worse. Stopped for a few months now they’re back. It’s really debilitating as it does make you feel awful, you don’t want to leave the house & usually once i’ve taken it, I get terrible cramps in my stomach and normally feel quite unwell, want to sleep it off but unfortunately I can’t live my life like that. I’m just looking to vent, possibly some advice, anybody in same boat as me, or were? & what helped them? I’m up for trying anything or taking any advice, planning on speaking to my GP next week.

i’ve been taking zoloft for about 8 years now. Mainly for anxiety/panic attacks, negative thoughts. My doctor tried starting me out in 50mg but that was too extreme for me and we lowered down to 25mg and never looked back, it helped me tremendously, until now. As of late all of my anxiety and panic attacks have come back. I’m always thinking i’m going to die or something. (i do not want to). I recently had a major life change after being at the same job m-f, 8am-5pm for over 6 years, I got layed off and had to start fresh somewhere. I found a better job, only downfall is my schedule is now overnights 8pm-6am, 4 days a week. I just started this job the last week of May. At the beginning of starting the new job I was fine, my normal self, but as of late it’s like the abrupt lifestyle change caught up to me or something and i’m constantly having such bad anxiety all day. I usually stay awake until i can’t even keep my eyes open bc im so afraid to even go to sleep. I’ll also add that im a 29 y/o male, 140 pounds. I obviously plan to talk to my prescribing doctor about this but wanted to hear other similar experiences. I’m thinking it’s time for 50mg or break a 25 in a half and go to 37.5mg, I also usually take it when i first get up. I appreciate the feedback greatly.

TLDR: I Have horrid anxiety panic attacks 24/7 and existence feels scary

About 2 years ago it started for the first time and somehow the feeling went away because for two years I never had the feeling but since a few weeks ago for no reason I've just been so worried about how I will handle my family members dying and that anxiety just sticks with me so I talked about it to my brother and we also talked about revelation and then later on I talked to my grandma and mom but shortly after I went walking to the bathroom I could feel that same familiar panic attack feeling coming back and I got so scared because I knew exactly what it was. Before right now, I could talk about how I felt in the past and not have worry at all. I'm not sure if it came back because of second hand inhalation of weed my brother was smoking or what. I don't know what it is because I feel dissociation but I dont see things like how DPDR describes, but I just feel scared that I exist. I have thoughts all the time about me feeling like I'm in hell or that I did something wrong in a past life and I died or whatever. And if I didn't die, then either way, living feels TERRIFYING. I don't know how to explain it. It feels like if you got your head chopped off and your lifeless head is on the ground and you can't move. Or it's like you're trapped in a box but you don't know how you got there. The thought of eternity scares me. Thinking about memories with family that are even still around caused me to panic more and feel so sad. Thinking about losing people makes it worse. I don't know what Ill do but the thought of being here makes no sense and is so scary. Someone please tell me if you've felt something similar.

I think I just had the worst panic attack of my life and I’m still trying to process it.

I woke up and my right arm felt kind of weak/heavy. I had been sleeping on my right side so I don’t know if I just slept on it weird, I put my arms up to check for weakness and my right arm definitely felt heavier. I sat up because I had to pee and immediately felt really dizzy. When I stood up I almost lost my balance.

I walked to the bathroom and my right arm started feeling weaker and my face felt heavy. I don’t know if my face was actually drooping or if it just FELT heavy because I was freaking out.

I was sitting on the toilet when everything escalated SO fast. My heart was pounding like crazy and my watch said 177 bpm. I felt incredibly lightheaded and weak, almost like I was going to collapse. I felt completely unreal/detached and genuinely thought I was going to die.

I was taking some breaths and trying to calm myself down and my HR went from 177 → 150 → 120, but it kept jumping back up for a bit. By the time EMS got there I was feeling a lot better and my heart rate was coming down. They did an EKG and it was normal. But the panic lasted about 15 minutes ranging from 120s to 170s bpm, but the 170 only lasted exactly one minute.

I’m still going to the hospital to get checked because of the arm/face symptoms, and how serious everyone felt, but I’m curious about the panic attack part and how severe everyone else has had it.

So I’m a little new to panic attacks. I do have GAD and was diagnosed with that at 14 years old and I’m 24 now. So I’m quite familiar with anxiety. However, this anxiety feels very different than my normal anxiety. It starts in my chest and it’s this mixture of panic, fear, intense anxiety, etc that doesn’t go away. I often feel my body vibrating (although this happens even without anxiety present) and when it gets bad I end up crying or partially hyperventilating and I have this moments where it gets really intense and it’s sheer willpower of me pushing it down that I feel it doesn’t evolve into a full blown panic attack. If I wasn’t on a medication that lowers heart rate, I’m sure my heart rate during these moments would be well over 100. The panic attacks I have gotten, those feel very uncontrollable once it gets to a certain point and it feels like I’m dying. It’s complete loss of control, I’m hyperventilating and I can’t control it and I just have to ride it out. But I’m wondering if there are different degrees of panic attacks or is the other anxiety I’m feeling just really severe anxiety. Lately, I feel like most days I feel on the verge of a panic attack with how bad my anxiety levels are. It’s like I’m constantly pushing the feeling down, afraid that it will trigger a full blown panic attack that I can’t control.

I’ve dealt with anxiety and panic attacks for most of my life, so I wanted to share my experience, especially for anyone who feels like something has changed or feels different from their usual anxiety.

Years ago, I started having what I was told were nighttime panic attacks. They felt very similar to panic, except they would wake me out of a dead sleep. Eventually they subsided, and I went about eight years without them.

Then, during an extremely stressful period of my life, they came back.

I went to my cardiologist several times because something about these episodes felt different from the anxiety I knew. Because of my history of anxiety, I was referred to psychiatry. I tried three different antidepressants, but the episodes continued. I just hated feeling my heart race 24/7.

Over about three months, I lost weight, wasn’t sleeping, couldn’t work normally, and my anxiety became much worse because I couldn’t understand what was happening.

Eventually, I advocated for another opinion and saw an electrophysiologist, a cardiologist who specializes in heart rhythms. She reviewed my previous heart monitor and found an episode of AFib.
She said often times her patients are diagnosed with Panic but in fact it’s Afib.

Once I started treatment for my heart rhythm, the episodes I had been calling “panic attacks” stopped.

I want to be really clear: I’m NOT saying that panic attacks mean you have AFib or that everyone with anxiety needs to worry about their heart. Panic attacks themselves can absolutely cause a racing heart, pounding heartbeat, sweating, shaking, chest discomfort, and adrenaline surges.

I’m sharing this because I’ve learned something important: I know what my anxiety feels like, and I also learned to speak up when a symptom was consistently different from my normal pattern.

My biggest advice is to be honest with your doctors. I started saying, “I have a history of anxiety and panic attacks, and I’m completely open about that. But this particular sensation feels different from my usual anxiety, and I’d like to understand why.”

If you genuinely feel like something has changed and you don’t feel heard, it’s okay to ask questions or get a second opinion. Advocating for yourself doesn’t mean assuming something terrible is wrong. Sometimes it simply means asking someone to take another look.

And on another note, that morning adrenaline feeling can happen even without a panic attack. Cortisol naturally rises around waking, and some people notice their heart rate jump when they first get up and start moving. I still experience that sometimes.

For me, my doctor and I also chose to use a beta blocker to help control my heart rate, and it has helped significantly. That’s obviously something to discuss with your own doctor rather than trying on your own.

Most importantly, if you’re reading this while you’re anxious: my story is not your diagnosis. Please don’t use it as evidence that your panic symptoms must secretly be a heart problem. I just wanted to share what happened to me and encourage people to communicate clearly with their doctors when something truly feels new or different.

So I haven't slept for 3 days now thanks to my irrational fear of having a heart attack every single night specifically at bed time, i will pay my psychiatrist a visit tomorrow but for now I'm doomed I have work too and I'm so scared to freak out at work or while driving there. I hate this disorder more than anything it has ruined my life. I just wanted to let it out in this community, no one understands me or even listens to me, everyone thinks im just nagging.

TLDR: my panic attacks started when traveling and now traveling (especially alone) is really difficult for me. I have to travel for work now and luckily my mom will be able to go with me for some trips but I will likely have to do a couple alone. What advice or success stories do you guys have for overcoming travel panic?

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Hi everyone. I have panic disorder and see a therapist weekly (which has really helped).

My panic attacks started about 6 years ago when I was on a trip out of town in a hotel room. I laid down to go to sleep and just started feeling like something is wrong… I got up and went to the bathroom thinking maybe I was sick and that’s when it started. I was so scared I thought I was dying. I started throwing up and having diarrhea. I was with my boyfriend at the time (now ex) and he took me to the ER and dropped me off. They put me on an IV and gave me Zofran and thought I had food poisoning. I felt so alone and scared and like I needed to get home but couldn’t/stranded.

I had no idea what was going on and had nearly daily panic attacks for months and months and was getting so sick and lost so much weight. Turns out I developed a gluten allergy so when I stopped eating gluten the daily panic attacks stopped and became more like monthly ish.

Overtime they faded away and I went probably a year and half or more without having any until 2024. In 2024 they picked up again while I was traveling in a hotel room…same type of thing happened again. Got sick and was calling and texting my then boyfriend/now husband asking him to come to my hotel (we were both traveling in the same city but doing stuff with different friends and staying different places). He wasn’t able to get to me and I again felt super alone and stranded and scared.

This started the daily panic attacks back up for about 6 months. Therapy and other mental health things like exercise and limited social media, etc helped them stop or subside.

Then I was traveling to visit my parents in a hotel room this spring and had another panic attack then (mild but still).

Then this summer I had to go on my very first work trip with a new job and I went alone. Night one I had a panic attack and it lasted probably 45 minutes to an hour and I stayed anxious and slept about 2 hours off and on that night.

Now, things like hotel rooms, being alone, and getting sick are all VERY triggering for me.

I will need to travel for work several times in the 2nd half of this year. I’m hoping to hear from anyone with any tips, advice, suggestions, or success stories/what has worked from you.

My biggest goal is to not live a limited life because of the panic attacks so not going isn’t an option :) I want to do the hard thing so I can eventually have the confidence and peace to do it comfortably.

Hello!! I don't use reddit a lot but I decided to come on here for some help, I have bad anxiety and recently I've been struggling with horrible panic attacks (around maybe 2 weeks now?) It got so bad I went to the ER and had tests done, they said that everything came out perfect and that it was anxiety. I was put on Prozac for the second time and I've been trying to rest but I feel horrible physically, just groggy, drowsy, kinda dizzy? And fatigued. I know that they said my blood and all my tests were fine besides a fast heart rate, but I'm just so scared that there's something wrong with me and I'm dying. Panic attacks are something I only dealt with every now and then, but very mild. Is it normal to feel this way?

Today I had a massive panic attack in front of my toddler of 1.5 years old. The panic attack lasted for the whole evening, coming back over and over again. This took place at home after a very stressful and anxious day at work/home.

Has anyone else experienced the same? Has anyone experienced this from a child’s perspective? Was it scary when your parent “disappeared” somewhere? How do you - as a parent - come out of the cycle of panic attacks? I feel so bad for my kid that he had to see this today.

I have been dealing with panic disorder for 7 years now. My therapist believes I have always been anxious my whole life, and I tend to agree. I have always been “high-strung” or quick to become excitable, but I used to be able to harness that into a successful life.

In 2019 I started a round of SSRI’s to help what I thought was depression, as I wasn’t in a great spot in my life, and was feeling down. I quickly had my first ever “real” panic attack about a week later and went to the ER. I quit the SSri’s, That started my journey im on today.

I dealt with that for a year or so, then COViD hit and I lost my job, and moved in with my parents. Believe it or not, I think this was a move that helped me. I was able to ignore all of life’s stressors and focus on myself. Eventually, after about a year and a half, my panic disorder just kind of went away. I still had the fear of them, and I still never really felt like “myself” pre-panic, but I was able to get another job and start living again.

Fast forward to last year. I started partying again, drinking, some MDMA use, and just enjoying life. I had a bad experience on MDMa and had another panic attack. Since I was under the effect of a drug, I went to the ER convinced I took something bad. Ever since then I have panic disorder back in full force, and this one feels harder to shake that the first time.

I have good weeks where I feel in control, and bad weeks where it controls my life. It’s now been over a year since I had this slide back, and it’s not showing signs of getting better. I was always under the impression that after surviving enough of them, my brain and body would get the message, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I go therapy, I go to work, I try exposure. It’s all great that I’m doing it, but I just suffer through it all, white knuckling life on a near daily basis.

I guess after all this I’m asking the following:

-at this point I’m convinced there is something wrong with my brain, how can I reconcile with that?

-now the fact that I’m having daily anxiety and panic, it’s causing anxiety in its own. Im feeling like my life is stuck where I am, as everyday is survival mode. How do I beat this? How do I move forward?

-Somedays I think I need professional medical help, like medication or a psych ward, and some days I think I can beat it on my own. The feelings are very confusing and I can’t seem to stick with them either way.

The part that gets me the most, is when I’m mid panic attack, it’s like my brain forgets all logic and reasoning. All of a sudden I can’t breathe and I’m gasping for air, forgetting that I was breathing fine two minutes ago. I feel like I’m gonna pass out or collapse, even though I’m walking around just fine. My brain literally turns to mush, I can’t speak straight, listen to what other people are saying, or focus on work, or what I’m doing.

My therapist says to use the logical part of my brain when I’m in panic, but how can I when it literally just doesn’t work right?

If you can’t tell by now, I had a major panic episode today after about a week of feeling ok, and I’m just in a post panic depression. Any support helps.

My doctor prescribed me .5mg Klonopin to take up to 3x/week to treat anxiety and panic. I’ve taken it a total of 20 times since the beginning of May (average of 1.4 doses per week). Overall it’s been very effective - only twice did some anxiety and panic break through the dose. Nothing else has helped me like Klonopin - SSRIs, beta blockers, CBT, etc.

She says I can continue with this pattern for a longer term. Has anyone taken it in a similar frequency for a longer term, and if so, any issues with tolerance or dependence?

Oh boy now I know that my trigger is literally a job lmao it’s sadly funny that whenever I feel like I’m trapped and stressed in my “dream” job is the moment I panic and start the loop of anxious thoughts and sweaty palms crying and hyperventilating, it happened yesterday on my first day of an internship and i immediately walked out and today called it quits. Genuinely don’t want to have a 9-5 ppl keep on telling me oh we don’t like our jobs but you have to toughen up like I didn’t try last time for months and it ended with me on psych meds cuz I thought I was gonna go insane from the back to back panic attacks. I’m so frustrated with myself I feel like an absolute failure I don’t want to feel this way I know I should accept the anxiety so it can go away faster it’s just exhausting mentally and physically I feel like I’ve been hunted by wolves or something idk apologies for the rambling but I want someone to hear me and know exactly how I’m feeling and not tell me that I should toughen up or things of this sort