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[Sheri]

What does your anxiety feel like?
Mine is intertwined with intrusive negative thoughts & mild OCD. I say mild as its not a ritual type of OCD but a more an internal one. Its known as pure O.
The pure O OCD is a mental OCD that makes you check things over & over & over in your head rather than doing the typical cleaning or switching lights on/off that so many people associate with OCD.
My anxiety makes me catastrophise everything.  And it lies to me, telling me I'm a horrible, lazy person, amongst other things that i don't want to share.
I've always wondered if everyone's anxiety was similar or different to mine.

[Dee]

Hi my anxiety makes me focus on my not being here its all consuming all l can think of hope changing to new ads mitrazapine will help and hopefully hrt makes me so scared lm 63 and wish none of us were suffering dont know if anybody else suffering same Dee x

[CLKD]

Hi.  Many years ago a therapist told me that I must think about what worries me B4 anxiety would start. Nope >bangs head on wall<.  4 me it's intense nausea followed by anxiety which with in moments has me on the floor  .  I have an emergency medication to take, fortunately it hasn't happened in 3 years 

It settles below my belly button and I cannot reduce the amount of anxiety.   . I never have negative thoughts prior to an attack.  I can go into situations feeling fine, looking over my L shoulder for panic to begin: but it doesn't.  Try to book a holiday however 

As for the lies: tell it "Yep, right now that is true.  Give me 10 mins to relax and I'll be a different person".  Anxiety is fight/flight: however, knowing that doesn't help when it sets in.  Physicality over rides logic. 

[Sheri]

When my anxiety flares up, i go into overdrive. Checking & checking mentally & then the tingling sensation in my hands & feet start with the racing heartbeat, light-headedness & this all consuming fear.
Its the fear that really gets to me. One of my fears...which has no rhyme or reason to it...is I'm going to prison. Goodness know why i have that thought but my psychol said its because, i have no control over my ill health & know that my life hangs in the balance daily. And the feeling of being imprisoned, takes the control away, which is my biggest fear. So instead of thinking if my health aa its too traumatising, i think of something that would probably...almost certainly never happen.
Control is a huge thing for me. I don't want to control other people but i would like to control my life & not be terminally ill.