Not quite sure I’m wording things correctly or making much sense but I want to know what you could call this phenomenon or if it’s a similar experience for others.

Background: I was diagnosed with Anxiety at 7 years old, 21 years ago, and it’s always been an uphill battle because I’m allergic to way too many medications and have to rely solely on therapy and myself to pull myself through it.

I had a recent experience of a dental visit and I had a very very traumatic experience with a root canal as a kid, and as a result my anxiety absolutely skyrockets at even the thought of a dentists office, but in the couple of weeks waiting for my appointment to come I experienced something I’ve had experiences with before but the older I get the more it starts to feel profound to me, the best way I can describe it is similar to Mania with Bi-polar disorder. For short lived periods of time between bouts of playing out every disaster that could happen at this visit, I would experience bouts of feeling like I could quite literally take on anything, feeling semi invincible and even feeling pretty stupid for the anxiety being on my mind, though I’d eventually regress to being so anxious my stomach would drop and I’d be right back on the verge of throwing up. 

This is something I experience even when faced with far less substantial bouts of anxiety, a tough talk with a loved one for example doesn’t tend to cause a lot of dread for me, but it does get the gears turning, and in those moments I’lol have those small fits of feeling like I can take on the world, and they always come in waves of 10 minutes to an hour at their best.

Part of me wonders if those 10 minutes to an hour are how people who haven’t ever dealt with anxiety feel all of the time.

Anyway, what would you call those almost manic breaks in anxiety?