Thank's for the great replies. I found them very reassuring:-).

It amazes me just how many wierd symptoms go along with anxiety but what is really frustrating sometimes is that because anxiety has physical symptoms (in addition to psycological ones), this only serves to reinforce the belief that there really is something seriously wrong with you and so you worry even more which causes more anxiety (and more physical symtoms) and more anxiety on top of that...etc. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight with the physical symptoms feeding the psycological ones and vice versa. Today I took a Celexa so hopefully I can get some relief. Tommorow I'll take another and just do that regularly.

On another note, I spent hours last night reading about GERD (acid reflux disease) on another forum and elsewhere. I've had this condition for years and the symptoms I read about matched a great many symptoms I've had and have always wondered about so it was like finally solving a huge, complex puzzle for me. Everything just matched up perfectly. It was amazing actually.

I also did a LOT of reading about bats and educated myself about them. I won't go into any detail here but my eyes have really been opened and all the fears and phobias I've had about bats all my life have started to melt away. It's amazing how sheer ignorance over something can cause us to panic. People (and animals) always fear what they don't understand (a natural defense mechanism which is actually there to protect us against danger).

Well, gotta run. Thank's again fun and freindly people!!:-)

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