[-jimi-]

Do you? Are they diagnosed separately? If not, can you still feel there are different types that work differently and feel different?

Anxiety is quite a large area. In a way I am a chill and laid back person, in a way anxiety is one of my biggest issues. I don't even know how to explain that to myself.

I'm not just asking for anxiety disorders that have separate names, but also if you can sense a difference within anxiety that sort of doesn't have a name.

Yes, I do.

Ironically, I enjoy large crowds of people. Yet, I have very bad performance anxiety. I have anxiety related to obsessing over things. And, I have really bad anxiety over financially related disaster.

[Unrigged64072835]

I do. I have quite a few, actually. GAD, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and an obsessive fear of falling.

[*Laurie*]

Yes...GAD and OCD.

[-jimi-]

Does it feel really different? Mine does. All anxieties feels really bad, but they are not only weaker or stronger, they also have different qualities.

Anyone understanding what I'm talking about?

[Deejay14]

Yes, ptsd and panic attacks.

[Monteiralis]

I have several forms of anxiety and they all feel very different. I can't be around large crowds of people (burning sensation all over my skin like its raw), meeting new people that don't have MI (nausea and difficulty breathing), getting lost or things not going the way I planned them (difficulty breathing and I burst into tears and sob) wow I could go on and on. So yeah, my anxiety does different things to me.

[Nike007]

Hello. I have several types of anxiety. GAD and social anxiety for sure. Possible OCD and panic disorder (long story), though I feel I have both of them. I can tell which issue is occurring in my body. They each have their unique panic attacks to them. Never have had a panic attack because of OCD, but have had obsessions to the point of crying because I thought they were true (harm obsessions I think that's what they are called). My anxiety level for each disorder differs depending on what is happening. At times, my symptoms are mild, and at other times, they are severe. It all depends. I also have a major fear of falling. I cry and get panic attacks every time I try to do an activity I can fall in.

[OneInBillions]

I was diagnosed with both Social Anxiety Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder but I don't really feel much of a difference between them. I tend to worry about everything, including what other people think. The only difference I can see is the way they manifest themselves in my life; SAD makes me avoid all social situations and events wherever possible because they're so uncomfortable, while there's really not much I can do to avoid more generalized anxiety so it gives me insomnia.

[Ashley Chan]

I have at least two types of anxiety.

1. Fear of meeting strangers or people of authority
2. Fear of examination

Symptoms for:

1. Tight stomach, fast heart beat
2. Hyperventilation, fast heart beart

[Yours_Truly]

Yes, I experience several different levels in severity of anxiety & different symptoms depending on the cause and so many other factors I can’t even begin to explain it. The easiest to differentiate is the acute full blown panic attack. It occurs usually after a short-term ‘threatening’ event. Doesn’t happen as often, but boy when it does it’s get out of dodge & just kill me now. Then there are the excruciating extended periods of time that can last for weeks, even months, in which the anxiety is extremely heightened, never seems to subside & feels like at any given moment a full blown panic attack could happen & sometimes does. This happens after an event that feels continuously ‘threatening’ or is long-term, such as after my mother died, or problems with a particular sibling. This is what I consider to be almost PTSDish, although it’s never been diagnosed, but it does actually feel like I’m waiting for the next proverbial bomb to drop. I’d rather be dead than go through this again. There are so many other variations after this. What I call ‘baby panic attacks’ feel just like the beginning of a massive panic attack, but either dissipate all on their own for unknown reasons, or I use a couple of techniques I’ve learned & practiced since being here at PC, i.e., slow breathing combined with a little rudimentary CBT self-talk to calm myself down. These occur most often after a sudden bought of feeling ill, especially nausea, or I happen upon Morgan Freeman hosting Mysteries of The Universe & this triggers my phobia of outer space/the universe. There’s also what I call my ‘generalized anxiety,’ which is with me pretty much daily & flares here & there to different degrees, say if I have to leave the house, or I wake up in the middle of the night & can’t fall back asleep, or I’m ruminating.

[venusss]

I used to have social anxiety which I overcame luckily.

I still suffer random bouts of anxiety for "no" reason and some phobias.

[88Butterfly88]

Diagnosis wise I have 3 anxiety disorders (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I also have social anxiety but am told that's just part of the GAD and not its own disorder.