sonneillonv:

jadelyn:

Hey so like has anyone ever had basically an anxiety attack without the anxiety part?

Like I have all the physical stuff – heart beating too hard, chest feels tight, shaking slightly, etc. – but I’m not like…upset about anything? At all? And nothing has happened that would provoke this?

Of course the weirdness of it is now *adding* an emotional anxiety component to things, joy of joys. But that definitely came second.

Yes, husband has this happen.  Sometimes it’s a building thing… little anxieties, things he’s not actively worried about, but that have him on higher alert.  They pile up and he starts having a panic attack over literally nothing, except it’s not really nothing, it’s just that it’s not any one thing in particular.  Sometimes it’s a response to stimuli he doesn’t consciously recognize – for instance, if the door is open, it aggravates his agoraphobia.  But he may not realize it is… he just passes the open door and his body starts responding to it even though he’s not actually thinking about the thing.