Hi all,

Yesterday, I experienced my first ever sudden onset anxiety attack. Anxiety is something that many members of my family deal with but I've never had any direct experience with myself.

Yesterday morning while at work I was talking to a coworker and during the conversation around the middle of the conversation, I felt like I was above my body watching myself talk to my coworker. By the end of the conversation, I was having noticable speech issues. From there, I started to taking to a different coworker and was slurring, mixing up my words, and generally just couldn't speak and was getting frustrated with myself but couldn't express it verbally. I sat down in a quiet room, worried that maybe I was suffering from a TIA (stroke risk run in my family). The second coworker checked on me and I was showing no typical signs of a TIA incident. 5 minutes later, I was completely normal. I called my doctor and was asked to come in immediately. We went through a battery of tests and ultimately both my doctor and another in the practice said it was a anxiety attack. I was confused because I had never experienced anxiety nor have I been overly stressed lately but in taking with them, I realized that what they were saying was making sense

In hindsight, I have been slightly on edge with my family over the last week or so for no real reason. I still don't know how or what brought this incident on yesterday but it happened.

I'd love to hear from others that experienced similar and how they've coped.

Thanks for reading.