[30/M]This is the third time it's happened in my life. The first time was in 2018 after a traumatic religious anxiety panic attack in the middle of an airport. The second time was a few months ago after a REALLY REALLY bad trip on some California super weed. The third time is happening right now after a fairly regular week or so of extreme stress including my job, my weight, 2 weeks of the keto diet and a moral panic involving a stray kitten.

The reason I'm here is this: when this happens, it's the same observable symptoms - for around 2 weeks I wake up wracked with generalized anxiety. It takes me hours to come down from it. The longer I sleep into the day, the worse I feel waking up. On a good day I can recognize that this is probably something biological and rest and be good to at least work by around 2pm. On a bad day, I spiral though concept after contrived concept to feed my anxiety, unable to even talk like a normal person until around 7 or 8 in the evening.

Every day I have to find something new to fight it off with and have a big epiphany about so I can function like a person. Without fail, that same solution will not work the next day.

This usually wears off in about 2 weeks.

The first time this happened was years ago. The second time wasn't even a quarter of a year ago. They're getting closer together and if I don't do something about it, I am going to ruin everything good I have in my life.

What the hell is this?! I can't find any situation like it online. I've had anxiety all my life but this seems to be a unique situation.

Please. Someone. Anyone. Help me. I need a solution or at least a lead as to what I'm experiencing. I'll do anything.

Thanks for letting me take up your time with this.