When your anxiety triggers the most.

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The first one includes any episode of agoraphobia and the second one, claustrophobia.


I've had many episodes of anxiety through my short life. And they are days which I tend to forget. But they sure weren't enjoyable.

Where it hits me the most is when I am returning home from another town. It makes me feel tense bodywise, which triggers a near coming of mild hypochondria as I think something is wrong with my head, stomach, or breathing.

Eventually it winds down as I get closer to home but it really makes me cringe with a thought of "why did I have to think about those worries?"

I would say health matters would be a second place decision for me. I have had several incidents which have altered me for at least a few months per episode. With the last one occuring a few winters ago. Thinking I may get asthma because of sore chest muscles, a heart attack because of a sore left arm which I think would get numb. A case of appendicitis because of a cramp near the vicinity.
I know the symptoms which offset the unwated worries but my mind keeps maintaining them. I can't even throw up without a fear of something bad.

Any other stories?

Does walking through a GIANT black widow web earlier tonight and barely missing the sider count?
The web was a triangle that stretched from the ground to the eves 8'up and 7' from the house complely across the walkway to the porch. When I felt it but couldn't see it, and it was tough and sticky, I knew instantly what kind of spider made it, that it had to be big, and it was probably out in the middle of it somewhere since it was night (they're nocturnal, and sometimes deadly). I was right on all points. Four hours later and I'm still picking pieces of web off of me. I had a massive adrenaline rush and had I don't remember breathing until I after I rushed to the full length mirror in the entry way to look for the spider and found that it wasn't on me. I found the spider that made it on the ground outside. She was probably 6" to my right at about knee level when I walked through the web. I stomped on it and killed four other black widows (two of them in the eves with an airsoft rifle). So does worrying about a potentially deadly spider bite count as a anic attack?

When I rushed inside to grab my airsoft gun, that was definitely a panic attack. I grabed the gun and there was a wolf spider bigger than any I've ever heard of before on the wall behind it (which explains the closet full of cobwebs all over the shirts I had just washed). This thing is the size of a small tarantula and it's still about a foot away from my bed because I haven't been able to catch it yet (they're harmless) it'd body is 1" long from fangs to spinnerettes and 3" in diameter with legs.
I should have gone to bed already, so I'll catch it and throw it outside in the morning.

Yeah okay. It looks pretty scary. And a life threatening situation. I would have a panic myself if I had one of those arachnids face-to-face with me and trying to get rid of it.

Health matters hands down. I believe they are what led me to my AS diagnosis when I was 12.

If I didn't have anxiety over that I wouldn't have 3/4 of my problems.

Health paranoia would make up 9/10 of my worries.

Communication would be the next one - up with thinking about what people are thinking when you're around them.

Being around anyone I do not know well.

For me, talking with people I don't know and/or don't like.

I went with communication, the fairly coomon answer for people like us.

A while ago, I would've said communication, but I don't have too many problems with that anymore. Now I think when I have to do something unexpected. That causes the most anxiety for me.

sudden changes in the established order of things, totally unexpected things, etc. make me horribly anxious

Being stuck in a large crowd, with very loud people, in a small room. I had an incident Monday night at a bible study when everyone got too loud.

Having to say so much as "Hello" to anyone makes me cringe. I'm scared I'll do or say something stupid that'll humiliate me. But if I don't speak (this is the South, you have to), I'll offend the other person, coming off as being rude.

It's not surprising to see Communication in the lead. Which is not uncommon for anyone. I probably should of either...

Erased that option, or

Included something like, communication when I have to speak up, or take charge.

But then I see that there are some that selected something different so therefore communication is not the predominant choice... yet.

Oh yeah, me too. And then when I get anxious about that and my heart rate goes up and I have a bit of trouble breathing, I worry that I have heart disease, and then it gets a bit worse. Whenever I read about something causing a disease, I get paranoid about it-which I guess isn't too bad a thing when you think about it I actually worry about other people's health as well. I guess a second would be small spaces, especially where there are a lot of people. I know that if I have a panic attack or something, everyone will notice, and that alone makes me a bit panicky

For me it is a small room or other area with a lot of people making noise. It doesn't really have to be an actual crowd. 6-7 people in a kitchen making lots of noise can do it quite easily.

It isn't that I'm actually *afraid* of people, but that sensation of being surrounded by them in a close area, surrounded by their noise and smells and unable to get away without touching one of them....

And of course snakes will give me an instant panic attack....

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I feel quite tense when I meet someone new, or someone I havent spoken to for a very long time.

Whenever I meet people, or when I become tired, anxious, exausted, or when something drastically changes my mind starts to concoct things that arn't supposed to happen, or meant to happen. I mean, I start to get terrible obcessions. Things in my mind get confusing.

For example, I've had random thoughts come and go that denote unwanted sexual conotations. I am, and have always been a heterosexual, but but my mind sometimes gets screwed up into thinking thoughts - usually flashes of images in my head - that are "outside my range", often males, but also children, the elderly, animals and even inanimate objects.

This is extremely frustrating and terifying. Whenever these thoughts occur, I can't think very well, my head hurts, my heart is racing, and I get cold sweats. I feel as though I'm being raped.

Sometimes, girls that I had a crush with for a very long time occasionally turn into obcessions, with sexual conotations even more horrifying than the others.

I had other irrational thoughts too (especially when I was young), for example, obcessions that I was adopted (when I'm not), that I'm pregnant (at the moment that is an impossibility for males), that I'm fat (when I'm not), that I'm a violent child that abuses his parents , wife and children, that I'm an alcoholic and a stoner and a heavy smoker (a couple of times I've even had nicotine cravings, yet I've never smoked), that I'm a heroin addict, that i'm a masacreist, a terrorist, and a piromaniac.

I've had serious thoughts of murdering people or commiting suicide.

I know I shouldn't be thinking this way, and it cuts me deep that I actually am.

All of these irrational thoughts that I've stated are probably half the reason I have bouts of anxiety and panic attacks.

I think what I said should have been posted on the "Members Only" forum, but since this post came up, I might as well vomit out some of my private concerns. And since I have done so now, I'm starting to feel much better