My Most Debilitating and Scary Anxiety Symptoms (Warning: Might be triggering)

All of us with anxiety issues will have to deal with the physical and mental symptoms of the disorder. Some symptoms, are scary, others are annoying and then there are the ones that are absolutely life crushing. They interfere with our day to day lives in such a drastic way that it sucks out every bit of joy in our lives. For me it was so bad I became mostly house bound and always so tired I couldn’t get out of bed for most of the day.
The hypersensitivity to bodily changes or my surroundings was so high that every little unexpected change would get me startled and even panicked. It could have been a little twitch, ache, rash or mole and it would get my head spinning… unable to distract myself from it. It was like I have built up a connection in my mind that any symptom, regardless of its duration and intensity has to be a sign of a serious and probably terminal disease. There wasn’t really any conscious or rational thinking process but I just jumped straight to the conclusion that something terrible is or was going to happen. A tiny pinch or ache in my chest and I would believe I was having a heart attack. Slight numb feeling in my hand and that would have to be a stroke. Twitching in my arm must be a sign of ALS. There was always something terrible as an answer. And if I did have a symptom which I couldn’t sort to anything negative I would rush to my computer and search it up. Of course I would always end up with the worst possible scenarios on hand.
All this negativity presented itself also throughout my body. Uncomfortable und hurtful muscle tension was something I had to deal with on a daily basis. Everything really everything was in pain. I had all these knots in my back that I couldn’t get my mind off of. MY shoulders felt like they were going to explode from all that tension. My legs were cramping and I had shooting and stabbing pains all over my body.
You can imagine that for someone as sensitized as I was this muscle tension is a horror scenario. The tension created plenty of symptoms which created more worry and stress and which led to more tension and round and round it goes.

My life with anxiety also created a lot of new phobias and fears for things I never even thougt about before. Suddenly I was afraid of:
- Flying
- Driving
- Fatty foods ( because I would think about the fat sticking onto my arteries)
- Hot showers ( because I was afraid of raising my bloodpressure)
- Large public events ( Terror attacks)
- Walking alone or in the dark ( someone might follow me)
- Agoraphobia
- Shy and self-conscious
- Many many more

As you can see my life with anxiety wasn’t “just” plagued by the panic attacks but it was many little and small changes both physically and mentally that made it so difficult.
I know that back then I always wondered if all that I was going through is too extreme to be just anxiety. I couldn’t believe that stress can create something so terrible. But now that I have recovered I barely if ever deal with the above anymore.

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