u/Remarkably_Good394

My office shares a building with a grad school. We usually keep to ourselves as do the students. Today after my staff meeting I was grabbing a snack from the little market and I met a really sweet cool lady. We ended up talking for about half an hour, never met her in my entire life. She is a student at the grad center and is struggling a bit. We talked about everything from our credentials to our minor daily frustrations. She also listened to me as well. It just felt so refreshing and authentic. It’s been tough meeting new people around my age and it really brightened my day. I also feel like nobody talks to each other these days. I always embrace interactions with strangers, I love to chat about nothing. I hope we keep running into each other, I can see us being really good friends.

I haven’t had this feeling in so long. Every morning for the past month I bolt awake physically trembling and shaking with anxiety. My heart feels like it is going to beat out of its chest too. I struggle with sleep a lot and have tried every single pill and settled on clonidine and it has been the only thing that works. This month has been extra stressful for me with my relationship, work, and my family and I’m thinking that my body is trying to tell me something. Is this a conversation for a doctor that is not my psychiatrist? It is absolutely not a good feeling at all. I wake up feeling like I’m about to die every day.