Physical symptoms of anxiety

I don't know if any of you have experienced this but ever since the pandemic started. I have been feeling weird. Extremely unusual. Not myself at all. I feel so unsafe in my own body. I panic every single seconds of everyday.

It's been absolute hell for me. Just being in this constant state of extreme paranoia all the time. My sleep has been absolutely out of control and just all over the place. My mind's been overthinking as usual.

But ever since the pandemic i have been having this weird thing. So basically my body would be convinced that i had one illness and then my mind would basically tell me that i have that sickness and then my body would replicate those symptoms.

Apparently what i have is called "Health Anxiety" which i've done some research on obsessively for quite a while now and yea, it's been ruining my life and i haven't been the same person since the pandemic

It all begin after my panic attack. That just made things a whole lot worse for me. Just having to deal with a panic attack was THE worse day of my life. Most people don't really understand what that's like but for those who do you'll know how absolutely horrendous this thing is. It's terrible!!!

Unfortunately things hasn't improved much for me. I've been in this deep dark hole for so long now that i barely even recognise my own name. It's just been so painful.

Somedays I'll want to relate to someone so badly and i wouldn't even really have anyone to relate to since i just constantly felt so alone and so isolated. I felt like a prisoner in my own skin. I wish i knew how to free myself from the shackles of anxiety but sadly i don't. Somedays I'll have "good days" and then all of a sudden anxiety would creep in and then it'll take over my life all over again. Every time i make some progress somehow anxiety still manages to show its ugly face🙄🙄🙄

So far my symptoms have been chest pains, back pains, shortness of breath, hot flushes, cold flushes, paranoia, tight chest, numbness, shakiness, headaches/head pressures, insomnia...

It's just been a whole lot to cope with to be honest. It's no joke this thing. It's hell on earth.

I hope someone out there can relate to this because it sucks feeling so alone.
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

It comes and goes for me but I suspect my problems are partly related to my thyroid disorder or some other underlying issue. I had an episode in 2020 after I got what I think was tetanic attack on the bus and that triggered a short-term bus phobia. Whenever I was supposed to get on the bus I felt how my body started freaking out, I got lightheaded and as if I was going to faint. When I stood, I felt I have to sit down otherwise I'd faint, when I sat I felt I had to walk otherwise I'd go crazy. I figured out I had to focus hard on something particular to distract myself and it would pass. Eventually it stopped and now I take buses like before. You have to train your mind if you can. If you can't, you probably need meds.

Chest pains, back pains, chronic cough once (autumn 2018) sent me on the trip around the doctors for pretty much nothing because it was probably caused by tightened muscles in my chest area. Once it starts, it's hard to stop and can take months for you to recover. Like TMD - you're in stress, you clench or grind your teeth without realizing it, even in your sleep which might trigger joint inflammation or even trigeminal nerve pain, it can take a long time to calm down, which means a month or two of nasty dull ache or shooting pains in your face.