Hello. I will try to keep this short. I’m 25 years old. I’ve dealt with anxiety for about 10+ years. I’m definitely a person that deals with hypochondria. 

To begin with, since the start October of last year I dealt with a mild tension headache along with vertigo that would occur whenever I would lay down and would make the whole room spin insanely. Obviously this made me worried and I ended up dealing with one of the worst panic attacks (not like any panic attack is good) I’ve ever dealt with. It got to the point where I couldn’t sleep because I would panic that I would worsen my vision by laying down or the fact of seeing my room spin again would trigger another panic attack. After about 2-3 weeks, it was the first week of November and it went away. I was still startled by the panic attack but was not getting the vertigo spinning vision sensation anymore and the headaches went away. Fast forward to early December, I woke up a Sunday morning, right when I got out of bed I got this horrific chest pain that cause me to think I had some sort of heart issue. After a few minutes it obviously caused for me to be in a panic mode and after calming down, I couldn’t relax for another 2 weeks. I would get constant heart palpitations, sweaty hands/feet, trembling. To make things worse I started to get my headaches again, it felt tight all over my head. Forehead, scalp, back of the head. This resulted for me to think I was having a stroke, but with an anxious mind you obviously make yourself think even more things so I felt like I had a brain tumor as well. Feeling all of those things at once, while I had that all in mind I tried to sneeze and it went away, a minute later the feeling of sneezing came and it went away again. Which made me believe this is another sign of a stroke/brain tumor. Mind you though, 4 years ago I dealt with the sensation of wanting to sneeze but not being able to, it lasted about a month or two until I could again. So a part of me knows it’s my anxiety causing this but at the same time I’m not even sure what to believe. By late December the palpitations have gone away, but the rest has still stayed. Lastly, whenever I lay down or sit down, the back of my calves start to shake/tremble, which freaks me out, and whenever I try to sleep I get these jerks that wake me up whenever I’m about to fall asleep. 

So basically as of right now I’m dealing with tension headaches that are felt all over my head, which make me feel like I’m going to lose control or get a seizure, not being able to sneeze for almost a month, trembling calves, and jerk motion whenever I’m about to sleep. I can say I’ve been super stress over this and I do clench my teeth a lot. I’m not an active person, and I do feel quite dehydrated. Writing all of this does make me feel a bit ridiculous because I’m either immortal or the logical thinking of all of this being anxiety. But whenever I get these feelings it’s just hard to brush away. I’m also quite depressed, mainly because I waste my time thinking about these things instead of actually living life. I must add that whenever I do entertain myself with something or I get active I do not get any of these sensations, but mainly when I’m stressed or feel lonely these symptoms come to me hard.

TL;DR: 25 year old that has had 10+ years of anxiety experience and is a hypochondriac dealing with tension headache all over head, have not been able to sneeze over a month, tremble calves/legs, jerk motions whenever I’m about to sleep.

Has anyone ever felt, or dealt with issues like this where they know it’s anxiety but they cannot shake it off?