Hi gossamer,

It sounds like your describing classic anxiety symptoms, and they seem to be coming right out of the blue.

Cognitive therapy can help us to reframe the experience from feeling terrified to feeling uncomfortable but coping. That is the key to the illness in my view, and I've had it for most of my life.

The reframing involves reducing your fear of anxiety down to a managable level. I have found it to be quite effective.

Also, anxiety disorders can go away, or go into remission for a time, but we still live in fear of the return, which is another reason for giving therapy a try.

There is life after anxiety, and it can be quite a good one.

Good thoughts, M