I have absolutely no friends or family really that I can turn to when i’m going through it with my anxiety. What I truly need is someone to talk to when i’m having a panic attack that understands what it’s like to live with an anxiety disorder.

I just need a friend that gets it tbh. Or someone who can offer me some new insight. 

I’ve had a very severe GAD/panic disorder for years that constantly disrupts my day to day life. When i’m in the midst of what I think is a panic attack, like what’s happening right now, I start to panic even more because I have no one to talk to to distract me or help me calm down or ground me and reassure me that it’s just anxiety. 

Because my mind jumps straight to, “it’s definitely not anxiety this time. head to the ER ASAP.” And I can’t keep doing this. It’s like, sure, the last 30 times you went to the ER it did end up being just anxiety, but what if this time it isn’t?? 

I can no longer trust my own judgement or my body, I cannot tell which symptoms are just anxiety and which are genuinely a medical emergency. It happens out of nowhere which is what throws me off. Nothing in particular triggers my panic attacks. 

I’m so tired. I just wanna talk to someone who understands me. 

I don’t even have any meds rn. I was laying in bed trying to take relax, take a nap and all of a sudden felt short of breath, and then when I noticed I was having shortness of breath, I started to panic immediately and my heart started racing and pounding and then I had to jump out of my bed and try to “leave.” 

Where am I going?? I don’t know. None of it makes sense. I just wanted to rest. I’m so tired. I can’t even rest now without anxiety. It’s crazy.