I feel physically ill quite a lot of the time. My main symptoms are nausea/queasiness, headaches, backaches, tightness in my chest, lightheaded, and that sense of impending doom that most people would feel.

I also suffer from anxiety and stress disorders. But the thing is, it's often the way I'm feeling physically that triggers my anxiety/panic attacks. For example, I may suddenly start to feel nauseated, and that will immediately cause me to become very anxious, and then I shake and shiver, and feel the urge to pace around the room which I have not done in a very long time, but sometimes I text my friends for advice, which sometimes helps, but never seems to be enough in my thoughts.

Often, if I get nauseated, that's when the brewing thoughts kick in. Like "is there a fever?" "Am I becoming sick?" "I have to get this schoolwork done there's no time for this!" And so on, so forth,

I'm wondering whether other people who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks also have physical symptoms, even when they aren't having an actual panic attack (but I could be wrong, it could be mostly imagination going non stop to scare the body into submission).

Can anxiety really make you feel physically ill a lot of the time? Because at this point, I'm willing to believe my overwhelming disorders are just wanting to spiral out of control.

I have gone to the infirmary at the school many times for nausea kicking or sudden bursts of anxiety. The nurse gets tired of me coming because she knows what to easily expect and I feel like such a hassle to everyone when I ask if I look okay but there's a part of me that still worries that there is something physically wrong. And usually it's when I'm on my menstrual cycle that I absolutely CANNOT go to school on the first day. But I'm homeschooled now and it's taken a rather extreme toll on my body. I can no longer eat or sleep properly, not even manage to function for my schoolwork...it's gotten out of hand, and I'm going to be moving out of my parents place soon, but I new this dilemma out of the way. At least so it won't affect me having to pay or so many things later for my health. I'm at the last string, on the edge of my seat, etc.

Thanks for listening at least. I'm hoping someone in this wide world has been through either the same thing, or has had a dilemma similar to it.