Ever since the pandemic started I have had a significant increase in my anxiety and depression and it’s even started to show as physical symptoms (heart palpitations, headaches, trouble breathing, muscle twitches, dizziness, brain fog). When this began happening back in March I went to several doctors (PCP, Cardiologist, neurologist) and they all said there didn’t appear to be anything wrong and it was likely just caused by anxiety.

In August I started my first semester of college and luckily I was able to go in person and during that time my anxiety subsided a lot, I had much less symptoms then I was previously having. But every since I got home in November, my anxiety has been slowly coming back but twice as bad this time. I am constantly convincing myself that I am dying and telling myself I have cancer or some incurable disease every time something feels slightly off with my body. I have also been getting panic attacks 1-2 times a week which is interfering with my life significantly. My sleep schedule is absolutely awful, I can barely sleep at all, and I have a constant feeling that something bad is going to happen or I am going to die at any given moment.

I am really unsure what I should do to help cope with this, it just seems to be getting worse and worse and now all of a sudden I am becoming really depressed as well to the point that I can barely get out of bed. Does anyone have any advice as to what may help me cope with this?