How Anxiety Creates Feelings of Impending Doom

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. The feeling that something truly awful will happen or a sense so strong that you believe you must escape immediately.⁣
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Often, it's the emotion itself that scares anxiety sufferers. They know they are safe, so why do they experience this. ⁣
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The truth about this emotion (and all other emotions) is that you are experiencing them because of the fight-or-flight response. And a sustained fight-or-flight response leads to nervous system sensitization or hyperstimulation. Because you are sensitized, you are experiencing these symptoms even when there is no obvious, direct threat.⁣
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The key is not to panic when this emotion comes in but to learn how to respond and let it pass. ⁣
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The long-term effect will be that the symptom goes away once and for all.⁣

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[Leilafart]

I get this, when things are going well. I start to drive or do something where I have to sit with myself and it comes up. It’s like “oh everything is going well there must be SOMETHING that will come and ruin it all in a moment” it’s really stealing my joy.

[cbaca]

To anyone who is having this feeling right now, don't worry cause it'll get better! Give it a few days or weeks and it'll go away. For now, keep yourself calm, keep yourself distracted, and remember that you're perfectly fine and healthy and nothing bad is gonna happen. Let's all go through this together okay?! I'm rooting for you, you got this❤✨

[gigima]

Feelings of impending doom, dread, and sadness first thing in the morning. Like a dark cloud. You described what I experience perfectly.

[psyrapmafia]

Finally a video that talks about anxiety without "obvious" triggers. Anytime i realize im currently not experiencing anxiety... will trigger severe anxiety. My mind out of nowhere demands i start panicking like a trapped animal and i have to fight so hard to keep it from spiralling! Its such an awful existential feeling i wish on no one, am trying so hard not to resort to meds. I want to learn how to just let it come and go and not feel like a battle to keep it from becoming a full blown attack.😢

[chiselcheswick]

I describe it as it feels like you are walking to the gallows or waiting to charge out of a trench in WW1... One of the worst symptoms in my opinion.

[LPS-yply]

You are so right! Thanks for this video, really needed it today! I woke up this morning feeling like I was dying, it's a nice reminder that I'm not!

[BUGG]

Mine comes up when I feel something may be wrong with my body, I see tunnel vision and I HAVE to go to the hospital, when I try to put it to the back of my mind I say to myself “what if I don’t go to the hospital and this is the time something happens”
Edit: I’m at the end of the video and thank you heaps bro makes so much sense 🙏🏽

[Darlive]

Veteran and law enforcement history. PTSD diagnosis 1.5 years ago was possible because I had a four year hiatus from alcohol. I’ve undergone treatments, including ECT. It’s been a messy recovery but it’s happening…slowly. Why bother trying to get well when it’s so exhausted? Once I made the very important, conscious decision to ‘live’ recovery is the only choice. Good fortune to you all.

[donnaclarke]

I find that its possible to decrease the anxiety after putting the information into practice, but the programmed addictive negative thinking from childhood is harder to get rid of, and shows up daily in my life, trying to overcome this is a task.

[fernandogaldamez]

Just happened as I was watching this video.. Thank you. Going through a rough time right now and my episodes today have been a lil scary.

[doyrayburn]

I have been fighting this my whole life. Every day, every hour, every minute. Im exhausted.

[christinasira]

I'm terrified of the allowing ..but I'm soo tired of feeling like this when the panic comes on. I hope this really helps! & thank you for the video!

[slv]

i have this again right now. i was recovering but then my anxiety gets worse again and it feels like i lost control. i used to have energy but now im feeling paralyzed and exhausted and feel scared to do anything. everything feels too scary. it feels almost like paranoia, its just floating around and i cant know why. i try to do my day to day life things but i havent been able to work properly because i keep feeling really dizzy and like im losing it. i try to think im letting the feeling to be there and tell myself im in no real danger. but it is SO hard.

[ky.alexia]

This was really helpful and allowed me to calm down and trust that it’s temporary. Thank you 🙏

[macflod]

I feel this impending doom a lot! Especially before i travel. I work on ships so every time i get this before travel but mostly before i travel away from home. I get that feeling extremely strong in the morning when i wake so if i wake its almost impossible to sleep again

[syedwajidali]

I was very well last day, i tried my best to control my anxiety and get myself busy into stuff that i like to do. I had a quality of time in college, laughing with my friends, making videos which were so crazy. But at the end of the day i just stressed up once again. I lost it all in a go, last night when i was having convo. with my papa, he said me "why you look so sad? " That was the moment when i became nervous and started thinking about myself that if something bad is gonna happen with me, i was very horrified that i tried not to sleep despite i was having a very good sleep. And now in the morning when i woke up, my body is completely fatigued, im shivering, my head is just telling me something bad is gonna happen, i am all anxious having palpitations, panic and out of energy and watching your video if everything is fine or not!

[Abbas-jybu]

I've been feeling like this as well. There's a connection between the gut and brain which might be causing it. Which is basically a diet issue. For me a starting drinking A2 milk lactose free because I thought it wouldn't cause acne (it didnt) but then had huge anxiety/ panic attack a day or so later which I haven't had since end of 2019. I still have it, but i think it might be a week or two until it goes back to normal. It can be made worse depending on your situation as well though.

[vinylg]

This is my worst worst symptom and totally throws me off, puts me back to zero. Wish I knew how to not react to it with panic and fear. It just never goes away. It stays for so long, I end up taking medication.

[rreese]

I relate to your experience. Thanks for sharing this is tough