I’m a 29yo male who has had his fair share of anxiety throughout my 20’s. my first panic attacks were all social related. I couldn’t bring myself to go out in to public. But these bouts only lasted about a week or so. 

Most recently I had some panic attacks at work. But what was different this time is I latched on to the idea that I was psychotic or developing schizophrenia. This started to scare me (not to sound insensitive). I started googling everything I could think of to reassure myself that my mind is intact even tho it felt like it was spiralling out of control. 

Everything since then has just made me feel uncomfortable and slightly paranoid. Even tho I know how irrational a lot of my thoughts and fears are right now. 

Does anyone else get these paranoid feelings when in a heightened state of anxiety or the fear of going crazy!?