I’ll try to be quick, but I’m not good at that. Anyways, I’ve had depression for years and some type of social anxiety or maybe general anxiety, but the anxiety never really produced physiological symptoms. It was just obsessive negative thoughts and intense fear.

But now I’ve recently had a couple symptoms that could be related to anxiety, and I’ve definitely been getting worse at least with regards to social anxiety. I’d like to know if they’re linked, or if I just have some other thing happening.

The main one is a couple nights ago my chest towards the upper left hurt, kinda like a muscle aching when it’s sore from overwork. Then it was bad enough that couldn’t really stretch my torso without wincing. The only anxiety inducing thing at the time aside from constant existential dread was I knew I fucked up some homework assignments (a lot of my identity is being a good student, so it was a heavy blow, made me consider if I wasn’t gonna be able to finish college) . Today after a math class I didn’t understand (again, I se myself as a person good at math) , my walk home was accented by the same pain but to a smaller degree.

Idrk what it is. I mean I’m sure it could be a million things, humans are frail little nothings and there’s no end to the things that can cause us pain. But I’d appreciate it if you could explain what the “chest pain” and “difficulty breathing” that they have on those lists of symptoms of anxiety are like, so maybe I can see if they sound similar to whatever I’m feeling. Maybe it’s finally starting to show physiological symptoms.