Symptoms

Well first off Happy Halloween everyone!

I just had a question about anxiety symptoms. I was diagnosed with GAD and Panic Disorder. I do not have frequent panic attacks, the GAD is more prominent. I have some symptoms that are almost constant: bad feeling in pit of my stomach, like the feeling something bad is going to happen, and a tight neck and sometimes rapid heartbeat. The stomach things happens whenever I am thinking negative thoughts and it usually is accompanied by rapid heartbeat and needing to calm myself down. It just seems too mild to be panic attacks, almost like mini attacks more frequently?

I have the same diagnoses, and everything you've experienced. You can have that, what's called "Free Floating Anxiety" where it never escalates to a full-on attack; you just have this ongong anxiety that's obnoxious. I have had the bad feeling/ache in my stomach off and on since I was a teenager. I used to think soemthing legitimately was wrong. Now I know it was anxiety, even back then. Oh how our bodies know things we can't even conceive.

Just wanted you to know I am right there with you. I've posted a few threads in this forum about anxiety...maybe some will help.

Yes, thank you for posting this. It is so obnoxious. It feels like a mixture of paranoia/guilt/embarrassment/fear its either mild to severe sometimes. It is the kind of thing that makes you feel like something is wrong when it isn't. It is always nice to know we are not alone in the struggle. Thanks.