I can only speak for myself of course but for me panic comes and goes, anxiety is always there. When my general anxiety get more severe, panic attacks become more frequent and that feeds into my anxiety and I have more panic and so on and so on. When I'm in a bad anxiety period (as I am now) it can go on for months but inevitably I somehow break the cycle and go back to just being my generally anxious self (still not fun but better).

I also suffer from depression but I won't confuse the issue with how that is fueled by my anxiety too.

For what it's worth, I have the same fear, that I'll always feel this way (even though I just told you I always break the cycle and things get milder). That's just the way anxiety effects my thinking, all sorts of worried and irrational.

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