u/Evil_Sauron

24M. Over the six months I've been dealing with anxiety disorder, I've experienced every possible symptom, even ones I've never seen in forum. Consequently, I've had tests and visited doctors probably five times more than I ever did before. My symptoms range from the classic ones: high blood pressure, panic attacks, headaches, heart pain. And then there are the unique ones. For example, inverted numbers—that is, I'd look at 6 and 7. It felt like they were upside down, and it took me 1-2 seconds to figure out whether it was 6 or 9. I couldn't focus; after 3 seconds, everything would blur and I'd have to refocus. I felt like I was having a stroke, and half my body would go limp even when I was just lying down. In the mornings, sometimes one arm wouldn't lift for 15 seconds. Weakness in my arms and legs. Several times, I thought I was having a TIA or something similar, although as far as I knew, nothing of the sort had happened. The feeling of a million voices in your head and a desire for silence, despite the fact that at that moment your head was completely silent and there were no thoughts, no voices. Camera flashes in your eyes. Or the sensation of voices in your thoughts, of course. When it seems like there were voices, but in fact, nothing happened. But the feeling is that there was and you missed it. And anxiety overcomes you. And then all the doctors, including psychiatrists, have no idea what it could be. This is what I remembered so quickly. I'm sure if I thought back, the list of symptoms could easily triple. What were the strangest symptoms you've experienced?

Lately, I've been having strange thoughts. I've been hearing unintelligible words, mumbling, and the like. The weirdest thing is that they feel like my thoughts, as if I'm thinking about them and creating them, but they appear partially spontaneously. That is, if I'm not thinking about them, it's as if they're not there, but when I'm partially thinking about what's happening, they seem to appear in an obsessive form. I'll see a psychiatrist in a week to find out more. It's just strange that they feel like my thoughts, but they seem to arise spontaneously and without complete control.

I just wanted to know if anyone else had similar mental health issues. It seems like mine can only be affected by one thing at a time. For example, a couple of years ago I was worried a relative might have dementia (he still hasn't had any), then a bat flew in and for a couple of months I was only worried about rabies. Then I went back to that one. About six months ago, my blood pressure jumped. And then I started worrying about myself. Which is strange for me, because before that, I never cared about myself, whether it was a fever or anything else. Even if my blood pressure was high, I'd just take a pill and that's it. But now, for some reason, I've started worrying about myself a lot. It started with blood pressure, then anxiety about a TIA (I had something similar, but doctors don't diagnose it), a stroke, and then a heart attack. And now I'm afraid of schizophrenia. So, when I worry about something new, I completely stop worrying about the old. And in general, I'm thinking, "Well, how was it before? There was some nonsense, I was worried about things that never happened. I wish I could go back to that time. And now..." Does anyone else have this mental trait where they focus on one thing and discard everything else?

24M. I've been suffering from anxiety for six months. While at first the symptoms were relatively logical—anxiety, blood pressure, panic attacks, heart palpitations, etc.—now they're fewer in number, but each one is now strange individually.

For example, the first unusual, strange sensation I had was not exactly right in my hands when I was at rest, but when I moved, I felt a micro-vibration. Then it went away, then something else came along: three mornings a week, my hand would become paralyzed. For about 20 seconds, it would rise by about 30 degrees, and then it wouldn't go away. Then, after a month, the attacks went away.

Then, for a couple of weeks, the numbers on my blood pressure monitor and some watches would appear upside down, meaning I'd see 7, 6, 9. And I'd feel like I was looking at them upside down. Then it went away completely again. Then, I'd start seeing flashes in my eyes like a camera flash, which also lasted for several weeks. Then I'd wake up at night completely disoriented and feel like I'd forgotten everything, even though I remembered everything, but I felt really bad, like my mind was completely blank.

Now I'm hearing voices or thoughts in my head. It happens a few times a month. Then they last a couple of seconds, and then I notice they disappear, and again I don't have time to even figure out whether they were my thoughts and I was lost in thought, or whether they were voices. And then, after five seconds, I completely forget what the thoughts or voices were saying. So, most of these symptoms can't even be found online. And of course, all the tests are normal. And the doctors have no idea what it could be. Someone else had unique symptoms that no one could understand, and they were literally just you ?