Do you ever have unexplained fear?
I understand anxiety. But then the emotion of fear and without a seeable cause. I don’t really understand.
I don’t know how to deal with it other than ignore or breathing exercises.
What would you do? or what do you do?
This overwhelming feeling that something bad is going to happen but you don’t know what … except your body and your heart keeping racing and it feels like a feeling of doom … I get that sometimes I don’t know how to stop it but reducing caffeine helped significantly.
Yeah! I think it’s caffeine as well. I’m just trying to breathe and watch the forum right now to escape it. It helps a little. It’s horrible
It’s slowly turning into normal anxiety. Slight palpitations. So I guess I am okay.
Advice is still welcome. It could help me or anybody for that matter.
All I’m doing is distracting myself as much as I can.
Let it be, don’t fight it or get to obsessed trying to figure out why. That’s the way i deal with anxiety and fear. Trying to be detached and observe it instead of reacting or try to get rid of it.
Distraction or trying to ignore it, like you said, is also a good strategy. Benzo is a bad strategy against anxiety. I have tried that and in the long run it worsened my anxiety.
Thank you. I have always stayed away from benzos so I’m glad you bought that up.
And youre right. It’s uncomfortable but sometimes it’s quite quickly gone as long as you trust there’s non problems. It’s very annoying when it happens though. Usually I do wonder why
I have the same problem now and It’s difficult to ignore what I think because I’m sure it could happen and this makes me really anxious all the time. I feel trapped.
Could your situation be a case of paranoia?
For me, it isn’t being caused by anything specifically. It is only a feeling.
I definitely think this is not paranoia. I have my reason to feel anxious , it’s rather realistic then something irrational.
I see. Could you speak to someone about it? Because it might help you
Well, I don’t have anybody to speak to in reality. I feel anxious because I often argue with my parents and they tell me what to do. I want to move out but I wonder if i will succeed or they will stop me. I work as a freelancer and i often can’t work because I feel depressed and scared that when I’m ready to move out there will be a big arguement.
Sounds like a constant and bad case of anxiety. I feel bad for you because that is relatable.
You are welcome to message me if you need to talk to someone, I’d be more than happy to try to help you make sense of anything if you need that.
You are welcome
I once suffered from anxiety. My Pdoc treated it with huge amounts of benzoes in high dose. I ended up at psych ward / rehab and was tormented by anxiety and abstinences, but once i got rid of the benzoes i learned step by step and with the help of mindfulness how to deal with the anxiety and now i have almost no anxiety.
I randomly got nervous riding in cars. It was irrational I’d been with drivers I road with for years.
It resolved itself on its own with exposure.
Doesn’t seem to want to disappear. It’s weird. It’s a heart ache as well. Really annoying. There’s absolutely nothing going wrong either. Breathing doesn’t seem to help bc I get distracted 
I do breathing exercises, yeah. 10 deep, slow breaths.
Trying to. Seems to heighten the fact that it’s there if anything.
You get this often?
I get anxiety but rarely fear Like this. It’s actually really surreal, it’s been hours.
I’ve had that happen a few times, yeah. Just that crushing feeling of fear, without any real cause. I’m sorry that the breathing isn’t helping. I do have some other ways of dealing with it, but they’re not healthy so I won’t post them here
No worries, that’s cool. The only thing I can think of is cigs. But it doesn’t seem to sort anything.
Toughing it out is the only option really. Could be a reaction to a chemical in the vape I’m trying to switch to. Can’t really think of anything else that’s different in actions or surroundings 
Weirded out lol
Yeah, definitely one of my weirder symptoms too hahah Yeah, toughing it out might be the only thing you can do. Hopefully it passes soon