Can anyone help me?

I have been told by my GP that I am suffering from extreme anxiety.

I kind if felt relief at first when she first told me, now though I am beginning to doubt it.

Everyday for over a month now, I wake up and feel like I am going to faint. My head feels foggy, my brain feels slow and unresponsive. My left leg is constantly shaking, no matter how hard I concentrate on trying to stop it. I feel out of balance when walking. Almost kind of dream like state. I have constant feelings of dread. I feel like my memory of recent things is poor, yet I remember things from the past instantly. The world feels like it's penis eyed sometimes. My throat feels like it's closing up sometimes, or like there is a lump in my throat, like before you cry. I feel aggressive and irritated. I am getting weird pains all over my body and in my jaw. When it first began it was small palpitations, then I would be constantly checking my heart rate, when I went to see my GP I had a pulse rate of 140 BPM. I also have a constant dry mouth.

Surely this can't still be anxiety? I feel like this all the while!

I keep thinking I have brain damage or something, maybe I am suffering from schizophrenia, because I cannot stop evaluating everything. As soon as I go out I feel light headed and weird. I managed to get a small grip of myself a week or 2 ago, I was only feeling like it about once a day and I was managing to control it. Then on Friday, I was walking to the local shop and out of nowhere bam, everything went weird and strange. Felt like I was too tall for my body... My vision is weird, especially at night, I get floaters and light trails, when I look at anything bright, not even for too long. If I am watching TV and look away from it for a split second I see the image of the TV still.

Nothing makes sense anymore and everything feels unfamiliar, I am confused and scared that I am either going to faint, die and stop breathing and/or that I am going to loose control and start flipping out. I have managed to convince myself that there is some under lying cause that is causing my problems. I want to be me again, but this new over anxious me seems to have taken over. I have no interest in anything and I am suffering from immense boredom. But I am so scared of going out and doing something, because of what could happen to me.

I don't get the numbness people have described from anxiety, and I don't know if I am getting anxious because of these symptoms or if they are causing them, I suspect that I am anxious because of these symptoms.

I have no energy either. I find myself struggling to get through the day, I am scared that if I relax, I'll fall asleep. I'm not really struggling as such to go to sleep, but I can only fall asleep with the radio on low in the background at night. Sometimes I will drift off for a few minutes and then wake up gasping for breath after thinking that I have stopped breathing. I will also switch from being totally lethargic and depressed to being really excited, nervous and anxious all at the same time.

Everything feels really trippy, as if I have done acid or something. I hate being out in the sun, because of all the vision stuff.

My doctor gave me short prescription of diazepam at 2mg. It helped, but it's not the answer. I want to be me again. The me that loved going up mountain tops and looking down on the world. Now I am too frightened to go to the shop in case I pass out! Or I have no energy or interest in anything. I can't even watch a film without my concentration drifting back onto a list of possible diagnosis' for my symptoms. My mind is constantly on the go, for fear that if I relax it might just switch off. No matter how hard I try there's this nagging voice in my head running down these feelings in my head. I thought this morning I had had a stroke, because my face felt a little weird on one side. I must say the physical aspects have now subsided a little, I'm just constantly worrying about the head stuff and the feelings and the visual stuff. Everything feels so alien, I'm talking about emotions, not environment.

I suffered a little with anxiety before, but never to this extent. I just would have the occasional panic attack if I was over tired. This is constant, which makes me think it's something more. I can't even dye my hair without worrying that I am going to suffer an anaphalatic shock. Or take medication for pain relief without worrying about fainting and slipping into a coma.

My blood pressure and urine tests were clear at my last GP appointment.

I am nearly 28 and I am so scared at how fast life is slipping by. I can't beleive I am nearly 30. I never noticed how quick time has passed. I don't want to die and I certainly don't want to continue feeling like this anymore.

This just feels more than anxiety. I am convinced that this is more than just power of the mind stuff.

My GPs' answer was to refer me to a counselor, I got the letter a couple of weeks ago to inform me that I wouldn't be able to see anyone until October.

Anyone relate to this? Anyone reassure me that it is just anxiety? Any advice for getting over it?