((wolfie25)),

PTSD is an anxiety disorder and it sounds like you are having a lot of anxiety attacks and you feel very uncomfortable around other people. I have experienced that myself, yes I thought I was going "crazy" too. You can slowly learn how to gain more control over these attacks and learn "not to feed into them".

You are reacting to these attacks by being "more fearful" so therefore you are continuing to flood your brain with "cortisol" which is what our brains do to prepare us for "flight or fight". You can learn to "distract" your thoughts to "things that have no signals of need to prepare for flight, which will signal your brain to stop producing cortisol and you will slowly "calm down again".

I hope you are still seeing a therapist who can teach you "self soothing" techniques so you can learn how to "self calm instead of feeding into the anxiety".

(((Hugs)))
OE