[tealBumblebee]

I posted this in general health but google suggests that maybe it's a panic attack? Except, I feel anxious in that I want my soul to be right if its that time but not as in heart palpitations and nausea and light headedness like I usually have if I am anxious. But, I would rather it be anxiety than real but how do you know that difference?

Anyway, here goes.

Has anyone ever felt this way? I just got this sudden feeling that I was going to die soon. The feeling just came out of nowhere and its slightly overwhelming in that it feels very "concrete" and my body is hot and I'm kind of like ... accepting of it in a way. It's weird. I don't know how else to explain it. I feel almost pressure to email T and tell her; I guess because I know no one in my family knows about her and I don't want her to be left out. Is this abnormal? Do people know when they are about to die? Would I be making too much of it to email T just in case, I don't want to scare her - or what if it's not me about to die? What if I feel death but not my own? I don't claim to be psychic or anything so it's not like that - it's just a feeling I got out of nowhere and i'm not really sure what to do about it? Its a peaceful feeling even in its frightening way.

[winter4me]

YES. Many of us have had that feeling. I remember the first time it really felled me (I was 18 then, am almost 62 now...and it occassionally occurs...but meds help, as does exercise, woods, water, and photography...)
It went on for years, and there was no "Panic DO" diagnosis (not to mention the PTSD et al)---I knew intellectually that I was physically healthy but also "knew" I was about to die. There came a time, during nursing school, when I wanted to put a piece of paper in my pocket saying "Don't think I didn't suffer"...in case I went down. I also used humor (I had a rating scale when my kids were young, and the dx did exist, that helped me----)---it is an Awful feeling. I did not have the palpitations with that feeling (or the usual "anxiety" symptoms)---and I was considered a very calm, self-possessed student and worker...
Do tell T. She will be able to help. This really is a biochemical reaction in the body that gets triggered who-knows-why, it turns the flight/fight response up so high...and then it begins to self-trigger, sometimes we connect the triggers with certain events and develop avoidance, and phobias...but it is like a switch that is turned on till it goes off. It is "out of nowhere", at least initially; and we want to explain it---------------------we are human and want to be able to say "see this mark, I got stung..." or the equivalent...
Lots of help out there for this now, and a good time to get it is EARLY ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! best luck, hang in there.

[Disorder7]

It doesn't sound like a panic attack, but it does sound like an anxiety disorder. I would definitely let your therapist or doctor know. You need to get control of it, so hopefully it won't get worse.

[tealBumblebee]

So, quick update. Someone did die. Not someone close enough for me to shed tears or anything but close enough that it would make sense that I went to their funeral (i didn't though my mom did). Weird how that worked out. (and no i still don't claim to be psychic; just commenting on the irony).

[Ozisl]

I've experienced things that I think are generally termed "feelings of impending doom" - it is like a combination of deja vu and a panic attack.

[SillyKitty]

I always thought I'd never make it to 30, but now I'm 33, so I was wrong.