Does anyone have a extremely, overly exaggerated sense of impending doom, while feeling like you will get sick and possibly even cry or are going to all at the same time? I tend to have this anxiety problem and it makes me wonder if I have an anxiety disorder or if I just simply don't deal with anxiety well. If it is a case where I feel like I will get in trouble whether I did something or not or if something else negative is happening that provokes anxiety, it gets bad enough to where I will feel like I am about to get sick and feel like crying at the same time, while not being able to concentrate on anything else and feel like a sense of doom, like everyone will hate me or something else will happen.
It is especially common when it is an experience I've had in the past and I am worried it will happen again. For example, a while back when I got my job, I was called into the conference room upon arriving to work. I was unaware that they were planning on meeting with me and this was a few months after I had been let go from a previous school district due to one teacher from one school making a complaint. I felt sort of concerned, and when I walked in the conference room, the principal and the HR manager was sitting there with some papers. Now I know that in a lot of cases, this is the kind of scenario that means someone is about to be fired. And that's what I thought.
I kept it together, I didn't break down or anything but all of the memories from what happened at my previous school district came back, especially since I was let go without notice and not even in person. I had to call them. So when I saw the principal and HR manager, I thought I was being let go again. One of them said sorry but they needed to talk to me and to shut the door and sit down. They didn't sound very happy which really worried me. I did that, but inside, I felt like I was about to throw up. I felt very shaky, sort of cold, and was just full of dread, thinking it was happening all over again. All of that went away when the principal told me it was actually good stuff and that they just needed to ask me some last minute interview questions even though I had already started working there.
I felt a tremendous sense of relief. I tried to make it like I was happy but I'm sure they noticed something since the principal was quick to tell me, as soon as I sat down, that it was nothing bad. Not sure if it just seemed like they were mad or if something else had happened just before I got there and I just happened to notice. There are many other instances where I feel like something bad is about to happen, and I get so anxious that I feel nauseated, emotional, and just overall miserable. That was just one of the many scenarios there are. Sometimes it will turn out that nothing is actually wrong and I will feel relieved and other times I'll find out there is something wrong and it makes matters even worse. That's why Same if I find out someone is angry or seems angry. I will get extremely anxious and experience those symptoms. I am not sure if I have some sort of anxiety disorder or just simply don't cope well. What situations trigger these kinds of experiences for you? Just wondered.