hi
i cant tell if im getting anxiety or panic attacks. when it happens i feel like i cant breath and i get this horrible pain around my chest and the room feels like its closing in on me and i feel very hot and light headed. so is this a panic attack? an anxiety attack or neither? thanks

When I was 12 I got high for the first time and my friend started greening out, which made me totally freak out and have an intense anxiety attack. Could this cause a chemical imbalance?
angeltryin2help;

it did definitely have a lasting effect. I dont feel joy and I have anxiety attacks as a result of it.

I’ve had a heart murmur my whole life, no big deal. But, the last few years my chest where my heart is, is tender and it causes me great discomfort if pressed or touched firmly in any way. When I’m also really stressed out, or when I have a panic/anxiety attack, I get the same feeling, just greatly multiplyed. My doctor said I had cosochondritis, and that it would go away in a few weeks at my last check up 4 months ago, but this has been going on for a long time, whats wrong with me?

PLEASE DON’T REPLY AND JUST SAY "SEE A DOCTOR" AND THAT’S IT, IF YOU HAVE REAL ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCE OR KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT MY PROBLEM, THEN ANSWER, BUT IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE SAYING PLEASE DON’T REPLY, THANKS.

I had an anxiety attack on saturday at 5 pm so I took some xanax. (.5) I’ve been taking two because one doesn’t do anything. Then I had another one at 2 am and again at 6am. Ever since then my upper back by my right lung hurts so bad even when I breathe. Is this connected? What should I do?

I am 24.One night I was driving home from work and started thinking about some things that had been stressing me out. All of a sudden my face got really hot and I felt like I was going to pass out.I pulled over and called my mom.I felt as though someone had knocked the wind out of me and it was hard to breath and my hand tensed up and i couldnt open them.My parents came and got me, and helped me calm down,I felt a little weird for the next couple of days but nothing like I had experienced that night.Could this have been a panic or anxiety attack?What is the difference?
I know I have experienced some anxiety…usually after a night of going out and drinking…it would get so bad that I wouldn’t even want to drive.Its hard to explain how I felt…just anxious and worried with really no apparent reason.That was over a yr and a half ago,I have a completely different lifestyle.no drinking at all.It’s strange but sometimes when I eat my face starts to feel hot and i start worrying!

Basically I’ve been having panic attacks since I was 13, I’m now 16.
I got Panic/Anxiety attacks from smoking weed.

I’ve been on antidepressants, which helped. But have stopped them at the moment because i wanted to try and control my panic attacks without medication.

I worry about my lungs a lot, I’m a smoker which is stupid i know as im only young. i get pains in my lungs, and i always think its my lung collapsing!! I researched that if your tall and thin, there’s more chance of you getting a collapsed lung than anyone else and im tall and kinda thin! so it plays on my mind quite a lot when i get pains in my lung which makes me panic, and then worry and end up having a panic/anxiety attack!

I also get chest pains, but people tell me that the pains in my lungs and chest are from the panic attacks. I just really need to know if you think the pains in my lungs are from the anxiety?
There not really really bad pains, there bare able but there just annoying and make me panic!
I just need someone to confirm that they are to do with the panic attacks and i reckon that it will help with the way i think and should hopefully stop me from panicking!

If you can help thank you soo much!

If your heart is beating really fast and your having an anxiety attack, what do you do?

I’ve been having a lot of pregnancy symptoms and just had an anxiety attack for the first time ever. Could it be a sign of pregnancy?

I had an anxiety attack about two and a half yrs ago and had a strange body change.
My whole lower abdomen exploded like it swelled up with in seconds of it happening.
Does anyone know why this would happen?
Or what I can do about it?
if it’s too late what could I have done about it when I had the chance?

I have severe severe anxiety/panic disorder and I’ve been out of meds for two days. I’ve been having an anxiety attack going in and out of panic attacks for almost two days. I can;t get medicine until monday. Advice? Are there any downers that will help such as Benadryl? I really need some advice on how to curb this suffering until I can get my prescriptions.

Ok i always have a worry. And if i think i forget to do soemthign before i leave the house something even as small as closing a dressser drawrer i cant focus on anything but that for a long time. And i feel like people are always staring at me. And in public reallly crowded places i never know whats going on becuas eim always paying attention to everyone around me.And i always feel liek people are staring or im not good enough. Is this an anxiety attack or something? And last night i was spendin the night at a friends house and all of a sudden got scared over nothing, and i houlousinated and i got so scared i started crying and wouldnt let go of my firneds hand. And i always get scared su[per easy. Is this a panic attack ofr soemthing?Please Please help.

Almost every other day something happens and it causes me to have a panic or anxiety attack. It’s really starting to freak me out. My first one was the last day of school last year. I went the whole summer without one and then I started getting them again about 2 weeks ago. Please help it really scares me. If it helps any I know I have General Anxiety Disorder and Insomnia. Oh and I’m 12.

So Saturday I had to go to the ER because of an anxiety attack ( first time having one thought I was dying). So I had like 4 at Sunday. The numb hands part happened to me again today. When should they stop?

The last nervous breakdown/servere anxiety attack happen on the freeway and got in to a bad wreck now been afriad to drive on freeway! How to get over this fear that feels like a handicap

Sometimes I get an anxiety attack and I start crying really hard and hyperventilating, which often leads to terrible headaches. What can I do in those moments to calm myself down?