My experience with anxiety
I had my first anxiety attack during covid when I was ten. One of my classmates had tested positive so we were in quarantine. I went to make my first covid test that day, and well, felt terrible. But after that everything was alright for the rest of the day. Until after dinner I started feeling anxious. I didn't know what it was and it appeared out of nowhere. I started thinking I had covid and that maybe just fueled the anxiety. I've seen on the web that anxiety attacks can last up to an hour but in my case, it lasted way more than that. I don't exactly remember how it ended but I think my mom got the results of the test during late night and I tested negative. That didn't really calm me down, the anxiety still persisted. Maybe I just laid down and fell asleep.
Then when I woke up in the morning, everything was fine. I remember the dinner that day was pizza, my parents were trying to cheer me up. But after dinner, it returned. At that time, they took me to the hospital. There was something that genuinely still angers me today. The fact that they made me wait for an eternity in the waiting room. It's not like I had any health risks but I was suffering. It was torture sitting there waiting for someone to call me. Then they gave me some tranquilizers but nothing seemed to work. Still eventually after hours of suffering, it stopped. I don't think the tranquilizers had any effect on me, it just stopped for some reason. Then I returned home, it was already late at night so I went to sleep.
In the following days the same thing repeated itself frequently. Maybe daily, but I'm not really sure. Eventually it stopped after some months. I still had some incidents but they were way more rare.
I haven't really shared the full story with no one until now, I just wanna know if there's someone out there who has a similar story or can understand a bit of what was going on. Please reply, I don't wanna feel like I'm talking to a wall.