Growing up, I frequently got this feeling of absolute dread or terror in my stomach. For so many years I’ve been trying to figure out or pin point why and how it was happening, or even if it was a real thing and I wasn’t just making it up because nobody around me understood me when I tried explaining it. It would sort of come out of nowhere, it didn’t seem to be triggered by anything most of the time but I do remember getting this feeling a lot at sleepovers. Whenever I got this feeling I would wish to hug my parents, I assumed it was an inner child sort of thing. At some point I assumed I was making it up or I was confusing the feeling with extreme hunger until I saw people online talking about. Anyone else get this feeling growing up? Is there a cause for this? I was always told that it was just anxiety but that felt a little vague to me, does this feeling have a proper name? Hopefully someone can answer these questions for me.