I’ve heard so many people describe anxiety has rapid breathing, nausia, flushing, sweating, etc. but mine are so different than most peoples.
Does anyone else have other symptoms like mine? They include "forgetting to breath" or holding breath, pale in color, freezing skin and hands, sometimes fingers turn numb, shakes or shivers, goosebumps, worried and stressed facial expressions, feeling like your body is more of a machine instead of "you", forcing yourself to smile and chat with people, but not actually "feeling" yourself, or trying to "self-talk" to yourself to help you through the day?

I get severe anxiety, but I feel my symptoms are different than most peoples. Anyone else with the same? For me, it’s only in social settings.
Thank you all so much for your answers. I do feel better knowing I’m not alone. I think the more I understand what’s going on, the better I can deal with my issues.
I feel you are good friends, and I thank you for your honesty and understanding.

Tags: facial expressions, fingers, good friends, holding breath, honesty, rapid breathing, severe anxiety, shakes, shivers, social settings

I feel socially anxoius but I don’t get panic attacks. I’ll always act weird because I’m constantly worried about what people think of me and I can never act myself unless I’m with my good friends, and even then I act more myself than I should.
I know that most people with social anxiety should get panic attacks. Sometimes I get shorntess of breath or sweating, or I even tremble. But I never get a panic attack when in social situations. Is there anyone else here who has social anxiety without the extreme physical symptoms? I do have chronic fatigue, and always feel down and tired, even if I get enough sleep. The thing is, this problem is really getting to me and I feel like I can’t function properly anymore as a human being anymore.
Alex, I was the guy that was loose. I was the guy that could talk to people till no end and used to be a very magnetic person. But now, I’m just so lost in my own thoughts I can’t relate to people anymore.
Jelly, thanks for the input… That really relates to me alot and I AM hard on myself… When I know I have so much going for me.
And I do get out. I go to Uni, and I go to parties. It’s just sometimes I’ll totally avoid people because I’m too frightened to talk with them and for them to think things about me…
There’s times where I’m more confident where I can converse, and there’s others where I become a total introvert.

Tags: alex, chronic fatigue, good friends, introvert, panic attack, Panic Attacks, sleep, social anxiety, social situations

Im a Junior high school (gr 11) and I can say, that’s its been quite a ride so far. I’ve had a girlfriend last year a year older than me and well as a pretty good amount of good friends, most of which I’ve known for a while.
I know lots of people, and dont have much trouble finding people to hang with, although the past 2 years haven’t been all that great.

I have an anxiety disorder, which often times gives really bad panic attacks, and occational dissassociative symptons (really unfonfortable). Although as much as I’ve learned to deal with them, they still get in the way of trying new things, with different people, one of which is… the school football team.

Ever since the start of grade 10, I’ve been preparing to try out for grade 11, basically working out a good chuck of most days, and soon enough… I became, pretty damn jacked, (this had greatly helped me with dealing with my anxiety) Nothing wrong here, I got from about 160 to 185 pounds in a matter of months (doing cardio as well). And everybody realized how big i was getting and everybody started assuming that I’m gonna make the football team for sure.

I was quite confident throught grade 10 regarding this, that is untill the days of the tryouts… . I was soo anxoius that day, that my performance was pretty poor. I ended up going home half way through because i though there was something wrong with me, but it was just my anxiety causing physical symptoms (similar to a heart attack). And future tryouts werent much better… the anxiety affected my performance to the point where I had to make up an excuse that i had "poor cardio" instead of telling the truth of my anxiety (no body knows about it) Of course, no coach would want a really muscular guy, who "
"apparantly" has no cardio endurance. And i the end, I ended up not making the team.
This was a massive surprise to EVERYONE, and a Huuugee let down for me, and to some of my friends on the team who i worked out with.

It makes me wonder if I even wanted to play anyways in the first place, as a popularity thing… but as the tryouts progressed… I really started liking the sport.

Its gonna suck going to school in a couple of days, seeing everyone’s dissapointed looks…. and some of the people who are on the team who I arent as big or fast as me, and I dont mean that in a snobby way.

I really want to be on the team btw, if nto this year, then next *crossed fingers*

Please.. Help?

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, cardio, coach, endurance, excuse, finding people, girlfriend, going home, good friends, heart attack, junior high school, muscular guy, occational, Panic Attacks, school football team, school gr, surprise, telling the truth

Im a Junior high school (gr 11) and I can say, that’s its been quite a ride so far. I’ve had a girlfriend last year a year older than me and well as a pretty good amount of good friends, most of which I’ve known for a while.
I know lots of people, and dont have much trouble finding people to hang with, although the past 2 years haven’t been all that great.

I have an anxiety disorder, which often times gives really bad panic attacks, and occational dissassociative symptons (really unfonfortable). Although as much as I’ve learned to deal with them, they still get in the way of trying new things, with different people, one of which is… the school football team.

Ever since the start of grade 10, I’ve been preparing to try out for grade 11, basically working out a good chuck of most days, and soon enough… I became, pretty damn jacked, (this had greatly helped me with dealing with my anxiety) Nothing wrong here, I got from about 160 to 185 pounds in a matter of months (doing cardio as well). And everybody realized how big i was getting and everybody started assuming that I’m gonna make the football team for sure.

I was quite confident throught grade 10 regarding this, that is untill the days of the tryouts… . I was soo anxoius that day, that my performance was pretty poor. I ended up going home half way through because i though there was something wrong with me, but it was just my anxiety causing physical symptoms (similar to a heart attack). And future tryouts werent much better… the anxiety affected my performance to the point where I had to make up an excuse that i had "poor cardio" instead of telling the truth of my anxiety (no body knows about it) Of course, no coach would want a really muscular guy, who "
"apparantly" has no cardio endurance. And i the end, I ended up not making the team.
This was a massive surprise to EVERYONE, and a Huuugee let down for me, and to some of my friends on the team who i worked out with.

It makes me wonder if I even wanted to play anyways in the first place, as a popularity thing… but as the tryouts progressed… I really started liking the sport.

Its gonna suck going to school in a couple of days, seeing everyone’s dissapointed looks…. and some of the people who are on the team who I arent as big or fast as me, and I dont mean that in a snobby way.

Please.. Help?
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Thank you!

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, cardio, coach, endurance, excuse, finding people, girlfriend, going home, good friends, heart attack, junior high school, muscular guy, occational, Panic Attacks, school football team, school gr, surprise, telling the truth

One of my good friends says she has been having anxiety attacks, and she’s worried. She said that she has been taking medication prescribed by her doctor, but she thinks it might be wearing off. I’m wondering, is this an anxiety attack, or something else? Her symptoms, that I know of, are:
Nausea
Inability to breathe ( she feels like shes choking)
Twitches, jerks

The thing is, I looked it up, and I didn’t see anything about twitching or jerking in the lists of symptoms for anxiety attacks.
Please help! I’m worried…

I know that this is not just a once in a while thing. She used to have them almost every day when she was younger, and then she started taking medicine that helped them wear off. Now they’re coming back, after three years.

Tags: anxiety attack, Anxiety Attacks, good friends, jerks, medication, medicine, taking medicine, twitches