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Anxiety Attack and Sense of Time
When I have an anxiety attack sometimes time just speeds up a lot. if there are people speaking they will suddenly be speaking very fast, if I try to speak it will seem like I will be speaking fast, if I try to walk it will seem like I am running. Things become loud, I can hear a pin drop, it seems like anyway... I have shortness of breath. Is this normal or am I the only person that has this issue with time? It is just so scary. I take Trileptal and the episodes have gotten a lot better.
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You appear to be having an anxiety and panic disorder. This can cause you to feel breathless, and disoriented with respect to time and develop increased sensitivity to sound. Alzheimer’s disease, severe anemia, liver and kidney dysfunction causing brain fog, some mental disorders like schizophrenia could be the cause of your feeling disoriented to time.
Apart from anxiety and panic disorder, increased sensitivity to sound is seen in migraine headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, TMJ disorders, Lyme’s disease, post traumatic stress disorder, and ear damage by toxins and medications.
You need to consult your PCP for primary examination followed by proper referral to a psychiatrist, neurologist and ENT. Hope this helps. Take care!
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
You appear to be having an anxiety and panic disorder. This can cause you to feel breathless, and disoriented with respect to time and develop increased sensitivity to sound. Alzheimer’s disease, severe anemia, liver and kidney dysfunction causing brain fog, some mental disorders like schizophrenia could be the cause of your feeling disoriented to time.
Apart from anxiety and panic disorder, increased sensitivity to sound is seen in migraine headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, TMJ disorders, Lyme’s disease, post traumatic stress disorder, and ear damage by toxins and medications.
You need to consult your PCP for primary examination followed by proper referral to a psychiatrist, neurologist and ENT. Hope this helps. Take care!
I have anxiety attacks also and when I have bad attacks I have expereinced the same symptoms. I am glad your medicine is helping, I take a different medicine but it is working, my bad attacks come when I run out. Hope this is a little comforting, Hang in there!
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I track my feelings and try to reduce stressors in life. Then I talk to my therapist of my anxiety and try to find ways to cope with it. Yes there are medicines like Klonapin, Zanax, paxil, vitacan and among other things but they are temporary helpers not permanent. You have to try to find triggers of ur anxiety and find ways to cope with it. Sometimes by taking these antianxiety medicine you become addicted and can be defficult to wean urself off of it. Sometimes I ask myself, "Are my fears rational?"
The answers to this answers are sometimes there not. So, don't worry find something that you enjoy and occupy ur mind with it but never act on your impulse from anxiety. That is the worst thing that you can do. Trust me been there and done that.