Question--When did you first notice the difference?

[kka264]

My Question is how did your panic disorder begin?  Did you notice certain changes in your mood?  Did you experience light headedness?  Did you begin to notice that you felt strange after getting up from a seated position?  What were your initial symptoms?  Did your disorder develop over a few months?  

I ask this because I became more in tune with my body's responses after my gran's death and after losing almost 100 pounds.  I began to notice how light headed I would become--from lack of drinking water or if I was lying on my bed for a long period of time and then quickly got up.  I had my first panic attack (at that time I did not realise I was having a panic attack) in June.  These feelings only began again this year...I was normal up until then!  I had that funny feeling again in January--and was diagnosed that same month with the disorder.  Do you remember your first symptom?

[kka264]

very exhausting!! I hate the head rushes! especially when moving from seated to standing ugh! but I have to remind myself daily--it's just the anxiety--my friend just was diagnosed with anxiety--God help her sigh

[fnbm]

My anxiety and panic disorder started a long time ago.... 6 years ago is when i had my first big breakdown but i remember having weird thoughts and anxiety attacks long before that....but what i can remember was the dizziness an noticing weird things you wouldnt of ever noticed before.... i can typically cope with my anxiety an panic but i notice i have this breakdowns when things go astray in my life. i can have the same kind of panic attack as always but i allow myself to freak out about it an Then next thing u know i am scared all the time an having a lot more severe anxiety an frequent attacks... im relearning now to remember its anxiety and panic and to jus to redirect my thoughts an tell myself im ok... its crazy to me how u can go from managing it to not managing it over night.... ugh its exhausting.

[kka264]

trust me i understand...i come here to get some sort of reprieve and reassurance that i am not going crazy--that feeling of dread is soooo heavy and ominous it hangs over you and takes you out of reality..

[dontunderstand213]

My anxiety started only about a month ago and i remember exactly when it began. I was getting a lot of morose thoughts but not really paying any attention to them and wasnt until one day in bed after work that i thought about what i would do if my wife died and instantly i got a cold rush and started to sweat, my heart began pounding and my stomach just felt hollow. Now since that morning ive been getting those feelings on a daily basis and now for the last 2 days ive cried for like an hour each morning for no real reason. I'm not even really getting these morose thoughts anymore but the feeling of dread that hangs over me is sometimes unbearable. like you i was ' normal ' before all this and just dont understand it at all. This might not be much help but i find reading other posts helps me a great deal.