Dear Ashes, When I read your post I thought to myself..."she needs to face whatever it is thats tormenting her, You only have one life...and it's relativly "short" much too short to let some B.S. ruin everything for you! As far as the physical symptoms go I think you could perhaps benifit from some strenuous exercise, (it helped my sciatic nerve problem tremendously) This "thing" thats causing you all of this anxiety is stealing your life from you! you can stop it...but first you have to decide that you're no longer willing to to allow it. no more pity partys,no more excuses, no more hiding and or running from anything! here I am! take your best shot at me...but I refuse to live one more day like THIS! I strongly believe that our fears are greatly exzagerated in our minds to the point of terrifying us,but once we face them with courage and get past them then we see the mouse behind the sheet standing in front of a flashlight casting the scary shadow that kept us paralyzed...GO!