I had a panic attack today before my weekly therapy session. I'm 23, and I feel like my anxiety since I was a child has already taken its toll on my body. My joints hurt, my chest is tight. I'm in that post-anxiety-attack mood right now, feeling completely exhausted and sad that this has become my life.

Any advice on how to deal with health anxiety? I feel my heart begging for my mind to just calm down for a few days. I cannot stop thinking about the way I'm hurting my body without being able to stop myself from having anxiety.

I'm going to tell my therapist I want to consider taking some kind of medication for the first time soon, because I don't think I can keep going like this. Sometimes I feel like I cannot get across to her just how serious my anxiety is.

I want to have fun. I want to feel peaceful, just one day. I'm so young, but I feel so old already :( in the meantime, any advice on how to deal with health anxiety or advice in general is going to be truly appreciated.