What is this? Anxiety

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At the moment confused and uncertain is a understatement, the only thing I'm certain of, is that I have anxiety disorder at the very least, the smallest tasks in life, I find difficult, when I walk down the street everyone is looking at me, my mouth goes dry and I can't swallow, my hands start to sweat, that's just the start. I find myself going from 0-100 in a flash, then I crash real hard, recently my moods have no middle ground their like the stock markert, my mind is overwhelmed to the point where I don't even know what I'm feeling anymore, I've also been waking up with the feeling which can only be described as dread, it's the worst thing I've ever felt, like death is right around the corner. I just don't understand how I can feel so much and so little at the same time, I can't get satisfaction from anything, things just seem surreal and vivid, matched with all the physical symptoms, things are getting too much. I've left plenty of details out because obviously I can't write 4 years of stuff in this, I just wanna put a label on what's wrong with me, I don't particularly fancy seeing a gp at the moment, thank you for reading.

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    Flynn, sounds like anxiety..have you been like this for 4 years? I am not a doctor but i am an anxiety sufferer. Why have you not seen a doctor? Fear of them? Fear of what they will tell you? Xx
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      Yes robin, it's always been managable through exercise, a social life and so on but when I took those out of the equation, it seemed 10 times worse. Mood swings of late are arising questions of bipolar
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      You are right.. when you are not exercising or doing the "normal things" you did to keep your thoughts at bay is when it gets bad. That is what happened with mine in a way as well. I had too much down time..   Not good! Hope you do not have bipolar that will just agravate everything else for you! Good luck and keep up posted! 
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    Hi, flynn:  I have had anxiety since I was born.  my parents showed me lots of baby pictures which look like deer in the headlights.  For some reason I was born scared to death, but I don't know what I'm scared of...I'm on antidepressants, antianxiety meds, and so much more because of anxiety.  It is a disease, just like any other disease, and can be treated.  Mine stays pretty much in control unless someone comes to visit or I have to go somewhere that I don't want to go.  The whole time I feel that people are watching me and that somehow they know I'm nervous inside.  When my hands are idle, I have to be picking at something.  My fingernails are chewed down, and I even have bite marks on my hands, which I do without realizing it.  I have had so many panic attacks, and I am now 67 yrs. old, living in the USA....I pray each day for a cure, but so far, it is just being stableized from day to day...Don't ever be ashamed or afraid that people are looking at you and thinking bad things...most of the time, they haven't a clue what we go through inside our bodies.  I hope you will take one day at a time, and you will have many good days, along with the bad ones...Hope this helps, sweetie....HUGS.

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