I often don't know how to name feelings

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For a while now, every evening, I have this horrible feeling I don't know how to name. I think it's emotional but I don't know for sure. It's a raw, sharp, vaguely placed, intense feeling inside of me, somewhere between my stomach and my chest. It's a sort of dread but not for anything in particular except maybe existing; it "hurts" in an abstract but overwhelming sort of way. It makes it hard to take in a deep breath. It makes me feel incapable. It makes it hard to focus on anything else and impossible to feel at ease with anything.

I don't know what to call it -- I don't know if it's normal to feel every day and little I do seems to affect it. It seems to mostly come on in the evening for whatever reason but lasts for hours then. The only way I know to deal is hiding from and shutting everything out and waiting. I don't know if it's anxiety or unhappiness or heartbreak without reason or something that everyone feels so often but don't talk about. I don't know whether to tell my doctor who prescribes me meds, or how I would say it anyway.

Mostly I'm just looking for a name for the feelings. If anyone knows of the right words to call them, please tell me -- and thank you in advance

Emotions manifest in different ways for everyone, so in the end I can only give you suggestions on what you might be feeling. The way you're describing it makes me feel like you've got anxiety. It's not the anxiety people imagine, such as the anxiety you get before a deadline. It's more an underlying feeling that you can't quite pinpoint. It's comparable to the feeling that something is wrong, and you're not certain what it is or what you can do about it. I imagine the pain comes from feeling like you can't do anything about it. Does that sort of describe what you're feeling?

~Wave