You're not alone, I feel as if I am suffering from severe panic disorder/severe anxiety and have experienced this exact same feeling. Often I question if I am even inside of my own body? I know that sounds weird or off, but it makes me feel crazy, bipolar, or as if I have a mental illness. For example: I will do something in real life such as go to work and waitress all night, and then on my home from work begin to even question if I was even ever at work, or if I was off doing something destructive. It sounds insane and crazy, but I have let my level of anxiety travel so far, it turned into crazy intense thoughts that are completely over whelming. I've felt body aches and feel them every single day, mainly in the inside area of my arms and it radiates from there, we well as chest pains and neck pain. It is almost as if I cannot get my body to relax or even calm down. My anxieties have led me to think and believe that I have many different things wrong with my body. So far, I've convinced myself that I have a brain tumor, sepsis, MS, many different forms of cancer, mental illnesses (bipolar, schizophrenia, ect.) and tons of deceases. These horrible anxieties have led me develop body twitches and so forth. You're not alone! There are other people out there dealing with the same thing, and no one outside of the anxiety world can quite understand what we're going through.View Thread
Posted byZomkee(FromAnxiety and Panic Disorders: Patricia A. Farrell, PhD)