I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this or can explain. 

I am 26 years old and just passed the bar exam to be a licensed attorney for some reference. 

When I was younger (5 or 6) I would sometimes get sick and throw up at places like the dentist when I was nervous. Or when I was the flower girl at my aunts wedding. I didn’t like change and would cry when my mom got a new car or if I had to spend the night at someone’s house. 

When I was in 5th grade my parents put the house for sale and we were only moving 5 miles away. I had panic attacks daily. Got nervous around my mom got no reason. Heart rate was super high. Everything was very physical almost 24/7 and I had no idea what was going on. Always felt like I was going to throw up and didn’t have appetite.  

When I started undergrad I would have symptoms of IBS and had a lot of stomach issues. 

During my first year of law school I would wake up and throw up because my heart rate would be so high all the time. It got to the point where I had to reach out and started taking Zoloft and Xanax until the Zoloft started to work. 

I am still taking the Zoloft and it has helped tremendously with the physical symptoms. Occasionally I will randomly be sitting down somewhere and have the physical symptoms but it is way less frequent. 

anyway. I say this to ask what is up? I will just be sitting somewhere and have a panic attack out of no where at multiple stages throughout my life even when I was so young and didn’t know what was going on. Now looking back I realize it was panic attacks. All my symptoms are physical. I’ve always been a social person and involved in sports, my career etc so I don’t think I have social anxiety. I would literally just wake up with a high heart rate and it would be so bad I would throw up because my body couldn’t handle it. 

Is this just a panic disorder? Only physical symptoms? Like honestly if I were to go to a therapist I don’t even think I could give any hint as to what triggers it. It’s so bizarre to me that my heart rate was constantly that high and I was nauseous immediately after waking up in the morning. 

My mom takes Zoloft and has history of low grade depression. Pretty sure my dad has some form of undiagnosed OCD. 

I’m just reaching out on this thread to see if anyone has experienced almost just physical symptoms or unable to pinpoint their mental thoughts that trigger it. I think I have only met one person in my life that is similar to me in that regard.