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I woke up with an oppressive amount of anxiety yesterday. The kind where it was hard to breathe and my chest felt tight all day. Doom felt around the corner for most of the day.
No clue what caused it. I'm not usually an anxious person. If I'm stressed, nervous, or excited, I can usually pinpoint the cause and take some steps to alleviate whatever is causing the emotion. I make no attempt to suppress those emotions, which seems to be effective at eliminating anxiety (procrastinators not working, getting stressed, still refusing to work, then getting anxious about it instead of just sitting down and doing some work is the kind of avoidance/suppression that seems to me to be a prime cause of anxiety).
Seems to be gone today. Weird.
This could be any of a million medical or psychiatric things or nothing at all. Good reminder to keep up with your routine health maintenance with your primary care doctor.
You probably didn't mean it this way but a true feeling of imminent doom is an actual thing and requires urgent medical attention (can signal things like a heart attack, and one specific medicine causes it as a side effect).
You may have dodged a bullet with something, or you just might have had some excess anxiety and not been super familiar with it.
For the purposes of this being a comment on the internet I can't really ethically recommend anything other than urgent presentation to the ED, especially if it reoccurs or if anything else seems to be going wrong with your body.
That said spontaneous anxiety happens - people get sleep apnea, or panic attacks start (they have to start sometime).
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