Is this simply anxiety?

[simonebrazil]

This has been my life for the past 5 weeks:

I wake up felling terribly anxious, usually to a jolt. Throughout the morning and until mid afternoon, I have intense, non-stop symptoms like panic attack:

- heart racing
- trembling
- dizziness
- hyperventilating
- terrible feeling of fear

Around 2, 3 PM, these symptoms subside ON THEIR OWN, without medication. Then I feel like my happy self again. That good "being myself" feeling lasts until I fall asleep. After a few minutes (30 or 40) I wake up to a jolt and from that point on I can only take cat naps until early in the morning when everything starts over again.

On the few days when I don't have the panic attacks, I feel very depressed all day and may not have the "feeling like myself" time at all.

I am doing counseling and have an appointment with a psychiatrist next week. The only medication I take is Ambien CR 6mg and it only keeps me asleep for 4 hours (and then that big jolt again).

Has anyone ever felt or heard of something like that? I honestly would not believe such a thing if it was not happening to me.

Thank you for reading this. :)

[simonebrazil]

Thank you so much for your answers. I am already working with a therapist and a psychiatrist.

I wish best of luck to all of you. :)

[emery_217]

Seems to me it is anxiety. I know my anxiety tends to come and go I can be fine for months or a year at a time them bam it brings me down for weeks to a month!