Has anyone experienced regular anxiety that vanished when emotions vanished.

I have been having pretty regular shaking anxiousness and when I got in an even more stressful situation the other day, I noticed I just sort off became empty inside put my anxiety left to. Seemed very bizarre of a connection to happen. I would have assumed that if my mind felt it needed to empty my feelings, it would increase my anxiety. Both have remained gone for a couple of days now.

Anyone else ever experience anything similar or am I just special?? LOL

[DePressMe]

Yeah, I've had times when it felt like my anxiety was so bad it was going to break me but then I'd go on auto-pilot and sorta detach from my emotions. I think it helped me survive and make it through life without breaking. Yeah the emotions came back and the anxiety came back but at least then I had the break that I needed be able to deal with them.

But, hey, maybe you had some type of internal change and your anxiety won't come back! Maybe whatever triggered it in the first place has resolved itself....that'd be awesome!

Thanks DePress Me. I wish it was a miraculous breakthrough without the stress of the work.. LOL.. But I got around the only really trusted person in my life today and was ready to become a big bawl bag

Well, hope you have had a lot of those "breaks" from your anxiety lately.

[Hellion]

I notice my anxiety is not as noticeable when I feel numb, which can last quite a while at times...but that doesn't mean I feel better, feeling empty and numb also sucks. I guess I figure my mind/body exhausts itself from being too anxious/stressed/depressed and such I end up feeling numb but I have no idea if that is actually why it happens.

But yes I have had times where I have bad panic attacks, sometimes PTSD related but had them before as I had significant anxiety issues before I ended up with that...and I have had boughts of almost complete numbness in which I just want to feel something, which doesn't always lead to good things.

[glok]

With anxiety disorders, though, the body sends out regular false alarms, driving people into paroxysms of fear and palpitating panic attacks. In other words, the body primes itself to meet a threat when no threat exists. Taking on Anxiety and the Irrational Fears in Your Life | Psych Central

A long article not directly on point with much to digest.

I wish you well.