Hi guys, I’m a 21 year old in the UK, and around 2 weeks and a half ago I had the bright idea to drink like 800mg of caffeine after barely drinking any for a month before that.

I go to the library with some friends and then decide to have a double shot espresso, 1 hr later I get my second ever panic attack and it’s the worst thing I’d ever experienced, i immediately leave my friends and take an Uber ride home, the whole time just having a huge panic attack and everything just looking strange.

That whole night was basically a long panic attack and feeling like I was going to die, and feeling like everything looked unreal/weird, like when you smoke too much weed. I managed to sleep eventually and woke up, everything still looked weird so I thought I’ll give myself 1 week of basically hibernation to see if it goes away… it didn’t, I’m now 2 and a half weeks in doing much much better but I keep obsessing over details which makes me anxious and gives me mini panic attacks, I thought I’d have forgotten about it by now but I can’t stop checking to see if things look normal or looking at my hands or obsessing over it in my head, it feels like sometimes I’ll unfocus my eyes just to trick myself into thinking it looks weird and then panic about that.

It’s so exhausting at this point, and it’s making it really hard for me to do work or do relatively small things like go shopping, I still manage to do everything like before but it’s so so so hard and I feel like just locking myself in my room until I completely forget about this whole thing.

I’m thinking I should go see a therapist, but I’m not sure if that will make it into a bigger problem than it is and make it harder to forget (which I think will solve the problem), does anyone have advice for me?