I have felt like I dont live in my own head for months.

That with feeling I will get a heart attack every day
lying in bed thinking "this is it" I am going to die
heart palpitations
sweaty palms
constant weird stomach aches and pains
shaking
feeling of electricity running through my body
jolts and startling easily
dizziness and nausea
chest pains and twitches
feeling of something bad is going to happen

all in a days work! Its getting better though.. But about 6 months ago it was at its worst.. Waking up alone at 5 am in a bangkok guest house in the middle of a panic attack with nowhere to go or noone to talk to! That was hell!

I don`t think anyone can understand how it feels until you have it. My boyfriend gave me so much grief over my anxiety where all I needed was his support and reassurance!

Thankfully I don`t have the panic attacks anymore but if I could just get rid of this horrible spaced out feeling then I might get somewhere. Do you feel teary a lot cos I do all the time I feel like i`m going crazy, damn those hormones!

Debs

Since I am not a woman I dont really get that teary eyed about it all but I get incredibly frustrated at not being able to live a "normal" life and have normal energy levels.

I get freaked out soemtimes even travelling somewhere, feeling like something bad is going to happen.

Just hope the good days come soon and all this crap is over!

Hang in there. And try get your boyfriend to read up on it so he can see what its like. Tell him I am a 28 year old guy who has worked for 5 years in the music industry and I get such bad panic attacks sometimes I am in a cab and 100% convinced its my last day on earth.

I am currently having Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety, and have been suffering with depersonalisation since the anxiety hit me like a ton of bricks last year. My therapist has told me that this feeling IS anxiety and at the moment we are conducting an experiment. Basically i have to stare at my body and try and work myself up. He says if i do it enough times i'll realise that nothing bad will actually happen and the anxiety will go along with the depersonalisation. I dont know i anyones actually ever gotten rid of it. id like to know if im gonna suffer for the rest of my life. Im like...im only 21! noone warned me my life would end there because thats how i feel when i think about having it forever!