Is Yours Physical?

Hello, first time poster here.

I recently began experiencing severe physical symptoms due to anxiety/panic that have landed me in the ER multiple times this past week, hooked up to a heart monitor. I've had panic attacks/severe anxiety and depression since I was young, but never experienced symptoms this intense. I just went back on Celexa (20mg) and am experiencing more anxiety/physical symptoms, and am wondering if anyone else has had their panic attacks suddenly worsen for no identifiable reason? I am a 21 year old female, and so far all of my medical tests have shown that I have nothing physically wrong with me.

Hi solopsist, Yes - panic attacks can definitely occur for no apparent reason. They are physical...by that I mean neurochemicals are whacked out, and that causes the panic.

If you're experiencing more problems on Celexa, perhaps the dose is too high? Can you check with your p-doc?

Hey there,

Some times I go months with very physical anxiety - heart racing, sweating, butterflies, etc, etc... Other months or weeks it is more worry type stuff. I've been dealing with it my whole life (I'm 34) and it still shifts and changes in its presentation. I still some times find it hard to identify triggers and remedies for it shifting in and out of the very physical space :/

Some times meds help... Some times therapy does... Some times exercise and such does... Some times it's just time, it seems. I hope it settles for you soon!

That's adrenaline. The stress response.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-o...nse_(in_humans)

Too much of it is bad for you body and brain.

- vital

Does anyone get like sick to their stomach??

Usually, it is thoughts in my mind. Once in a blue moon, it is pain deep in the left side of my chest . . . like right over my heart. When the pain comes, it is often quite a bit after whatever had me anxious, but I can always link it to a specific worry.

The first time it happened, in 2005, I had someone drive me to the hospital E.R. I thought there was something wrong with my heart. Now, when I get an episode like that, I just tell myself to relax. An episode lasts from about 5 to 25 minutes.

I'll never understand why some anxiety leads to this and lots of anxiety doesn't. It's totally unpredictable.

I experience this often and leads to a lack of appetite.

I'm still getting these squeezing, thumping, lurching sensations in my heart. I've also noticed that my fingers are stiff and hard to use, and I'm always shaky. These are all new symptoms, so I'm still afraid that something's physically wrong with me. It's looking like it's anxiety at this point.

VERY physical.

Everything from extreme body pain all over, to feelings of passing out, dizziness, feelings of losing control, cold spots on my body, not being able to concentrate etc...

Ive run the gamut of physical symptoms. Yeah, no fun, but normal for this illness

Yes, butterfly feeling sometimes vomiting or gagging.

Problem I have is a feeling that I can't move, which keeps me from doing basic tasks and eventual the problem is that I wasted the whole day.

Is it because of anxiety or depression/fatigue? I have the same but its more from the depression and fatigue. However anxiety worsens my depression.

Anxiety (fear of the future) creates a physical response, when I feel the physical response, I get more tense and anxious...nice cycle. So which do I deal with first, the physical response or the thoughts in my head? Chicken or the egg?

A psychologist told me once that every emotion comes from a thought first. i wonder if that is true, or it is so subconscious that im not aware of those thoughts.