I've been dealing with it for 6 months now really bad. I've always been a worrier in the past and high-strung and had a bout of bad anxiety in 95, but I seemed to get over it with some self-help books and had been fine til now. I can see a total change in my life, and I think I'm starting to have agoraphobic tendencies. I'm stressing about everything because I can't get the "what-if"s out of my head and scary scenarios. Panic attacks, chest pains, just pretty miserable all the time. When things are fine on the outside, I'm still jittery inside. For example, my dad wants me to be with my mom this afternoon while he goes to an appointment because she just got out of the hospital, and I'm on the verge of panic right now afraid I'm going to be locked out - even though he said he'd leave a door unlocked - and mom will be back in the bedroom knocked out on a pain pill so she wouldn't hear me knocking or the doorbell. I've changed plans and am going to call in a little while to tell him I'll be there when they (he and my sister) leave instead of an hour later hoping I won't annoy them, just so I can assure myself I'll get in okay, but I can't tell them that in case they think I'm nuts. I'm going through stuff like this all the time anymore... It's no fun.