general anxiety

When someone has GAD (for me is about my health) can you get a sort of heavy head feeling, off balance feeling, shortness of breath, and head pressure, and feeling faint without ever actually passing out, without having an actual panic attack? My heart has been cleared by three cardiologist but I still always worry about my heart and that I'll suddenly just stop breathing. It's pretty much ruining my life. I still do everything normally I just don't enjoy it like I think a normal person should. its so awful

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

yes yes you can have all you have plus more , anxiety is a bad thing and it does strange things to your mind and makes you have lots of scarey things.

[thinkerg]

Thank u. I apreciate it. It's really hard when you seem normal but no one knows how u really feel inside.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

yes i have been there so many times and you sit back and look at others and wish you was normal, but we really dont know what they are going throught or even if at times they feel just like us.

there will be days you will feel normal and i hope years that way. i have been pretty normal for 4-5 years a few times i have felt light headed or not myself. and we all know anxiety can show its ugly head at anytime . hang in there it does get better .

[thinkerg]

Have you felt all those symptoms I described?

[lindahand]

I've had feelings like that when my anxiety is bad. The good news is if you wait long enough the feeling passes. That for me was key in learning how to cope. It was calming myself down. Saying to myself that this too shall pass, nothing bad is going to happen, breath, breath, you are okay. A lot of this battle is self talk.

The more I learned self talk the shorter my episodes got. I still have free range anxiety, but the peaks have leveled out. I haven't gotten a panic attack in ages because I can talk myself down before it gets to that level. Before I used to get panic attacks in stores which was the worst. The world is spinning and there is no place to sit down. Holding onto a rack for dear life until the worst past. Glad that doesn't happen anymore. I get a little lightheaded but nothing I can't handle.