Anyone else holding down a full time job while having severe anxiety/panic attack symptoms? This has probably been the hardest thing I’ve inquired in walking around feeling short of breath with extreme fog and mind racing. Heart beating not to mention Chest followed with this  more feeling of fogginess and sometimes dizzy. The shortness of breath is what really gets to me. I’m just exhausted with this illness. I’ve been battling for 8 years. I can still vividly recall my first ever panic attack I definitely thought That day was my
Last at 21 years old now I’m here going on 28. It started with panic attacks and has led to severe constant health anxiety with physical symptoms and the occasional panic attacks depending on the severity of anxiety. I do not want it to control me like it has in the past. I had to quit my job back in  2015 and again in 2019 due to severe symptoms and anxiety I lost my position I lost my relationship. I lost control and today I fought I haven’t felt this bad in months. I sipped  on my water bottle the whole day I did my best to stay grounded and not let it consume me. I’m thinking this will make me stronger in the end,the more uncomfortable I am the more I force myself the more I become mentally stronger. That is what I believe that is what I repeat to myself. This will not kill you it will pass your pains will pass this shortness of breath will pass nothing lasts.  I work retail and man today was extreme but I made it out alive!  I felt like I was gonna pass out or worse but I made it I pushed myself to a whole new level. 

Who else is in my shoes? What coping mechanism do you guys use? The feeling of dropping dead in the break room after a small lunch is new to me because usually I would just give up run home but I didn’t. The shortness of breath is what definitely breaks me but thank god it hasn’t been as severe. Any help would be appreciated