I have severe anxiety and sometimes I get very anxious for no particular reason and it gets so overwhelming that I can’t even focus for an hour. I am a university student so I need to focus on studying for long hours and same goes for my job. Whenever I get these episodes it’s very hard for me to manage because it always starts very slowly and slowly creeps and expands over my whole body. Its like a knot in my stomach that turns into my heart pounding abnormally fast and my body shaking slightly. It’s hard to navigate when I can’t even tell the source of it. It feels like I’m underwater and can’t find which way is up…

Has anyone else felt like this? How do you manage and get over this long enough to do what you need to do? I used to have people I could rely on sort of like a support system but I’ve lost them recently so I want to learn to navigate this when I’m on my own. Any advice is welcome !