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Old Sep 22, 2004, 02:25 PM
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<font color="purple">A Classic anxiety symptom is a racing mind. It's a weird uncomfortable feeling isn't it? Like everything is going fast, but it's not? I get that from time to time, don't worry though it's nothing really to worry about, as it's only a symptom. Increse heart rate is also a common anxiety symptom, as for loss of attention and so forth can also be anxiety, but also sometimes a sign of depression. That's how it is with me at times and I suffer from both anxiety, depression/SAD and reminants of PTSD. You aren't going insane, I can promise you that, you are having classic anxiety, it can last a couple of minutes, to 20mins or to an hour or more. What you need to do to calm yourself down and what works for me is to do abdominal breathing, relaxation tecniques, writting stuff down on paper, calling up someone, do something to keep yourself busy. IF it is something that you are avoiding because of anxiety then that needs to be acknowledged right away.

What happened to you is classic Anxiety or even Panic symptoms, i've been there so many times, and it's a terrible feeling, but that's all it is. Now you have to find answers as to the why, and that can be tough sometimes. </font>
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