Detached from oneself-hyperawareness

[Mrmojorisin32]

All, I have posted on here before but let explain what recently happened to me. I was feeling great, better than I ever have. I lost my job a few weeks ago but was offered another one making more money. I have been dealing with a. Pre teenage daughter and it's been extremely stressful to say the least. But I still felt mentally great the past 2 weeks. I was getting physical type symptoms of anxiety/panic attack here and there but chalked it up to a few minutes and then I would feel better. Here we go again with anxiety/panic coming out of nowhere!  I want to add I'm healthy young male in 30's. I have a deep thinking anxious personality to start. I was dealing with feelings of the outside world looking odd and strange. That seemed to feel much better. But...two days ago i was singing in my car listening to music feeling good. Then BOOM...  All the sudden I felt paranoid. Like you feel when you smoked too much pot. My kind started racing. I felt very uncomfortable inside. My mind felt like it was moving a mile a minute and I felt like I split from myself. Not so much an out of body feeling, but a perceived feeling of watching oneself in the act of doing things. A super hyper awareness of oneself. I feel very anxious and off for the past 2 days. Sweaty palms, uncomfortable feeling all around. Mind is racing and I can't seem to think straight. Any tips to help me feel connected again with myself. I was told when the nervous system is shot this can happen. Well maybe starting a new job and dealing with ongoing pre teenage things can cause more stress than I realize. Is this something that will go
Away if you distract yourself?  Do you just let it be there?
Or do I need to get on medication right away?
Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

[Mrmojorisin32]

Appreciate it man

[steamjob]

Hey man I feel for us in the since that panic/anxiety is horrid. The best thing I have found is to understand anxiety  and what I mean is to do research of what happens physically to your body during a panic attack basically it's a shot of adrenaline when it's not called for. If you understand the physical symptoms then I realised that typically my body won't feel any different during panic than 15 min. Into a cardio session at the gym. In other words your body heart etc can handle it, also remind yourself  nobody has ever died went crazy etc from anxiety alone . As far as medicine goes try hard to stay clear of benzodiazepines as they will no doubt become a crutch that most begin to rely on and after the docs wanna take you off oh boy talk about rebound anxiety. I have had the best luck with a medicine called inderal (generic is propranolol) it's a beta blocker it makes your heart rate slow down and it seems to block the effect of adrenaline at least to me. It's a medicine originally prescribed for high b.p. Do research on it it is used for actors for stage fright /public speaking. Has a lot of off label uses for anxiety. Also if u feel one coming on try controlling your breath  deep breaths in through the nose out through the mouth sometimes this can just stop it in its tracks before it even starts . You were the one that brought up pot are you currently smoking cause until you get your sea legs under you (used to it ) I've found that occasional use can cause anxiety at first but then when your used to it it can block anxiety so kinda a catch 22. Best of luck to u and stay rested and hydrated those are just basic preventive measures.  
I'm not a doctor this is just my opinions.