Hello fellow sufferers,

So I suffered some overwhelming anxiety and panic attacks when I was in my late teens (34M now). Got on lexapro for maybe six months at that time. I felt much better so I quit it cold turkey. Since then, I've been in pretty good shape mentally, aside from a couple episodes of moderate anxiety in my early twenties. Like really, I've dealt with relationships and life stresses  and all that and have been doing just fine.

Fast forward to now. I dated this woman for a couple months and really started to fall for her. She just wasn't feeling it I guess so she ended it. About a week before she broke it off I could tell something was wrong. It was around that time that I started to feel really anxious. I even had some mild panic attacks that week. The first one I was just laying on the couch playing on my phone and I felt this uneasiness creep up on me and overwhelm me. It lasted about and hour. That happened one or two more times that week. I started having trouble sleeping too. After she ended things, it all got worse. 

I started to just feel so anxious all the time and was really obsessing over the relationship, like wondering what went wrong and hoping she would call me, ya know. My apatite was shot and I could only get 3-5 hours of sleep a night. I lost interest in doing anything. After about a month and a half of feeling this way I started to eat normally and the anxiety quieted down a bit. I was thinking about her much less but I still wasn't sleeping well at all but I was just left with some slight depression. I started a new job three weeks ago and then the anxiety hit hard again. It has been really intense and I've been having some panic attacks every couple days. Most days I feel on edge and hopeless at the same time. I nearly quit my job the second day because I just couldn't handle this feeling. 

Like I said, I'm been doing just fine mentally for the past 15 or so years but I've been wrecked these past few months. 

Please help me with any advice you might have for me. I'm afraid I'll have to live like this forever and I can't stand it. It's so overwhelming at times. I tell myself that I was fine before this relationship and that is what triggered it so I should be able to recover from this.