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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by moose1[/i] [br]Hello All, Sorry for the length here. I have not posted in a very long time but I do lurk often and with interest as this board has been a source of great help for me in the past. I am a classic TMS-er; highly/overly sensitive, worrier, catastrophizer, glass is half empty-er. I’ve had: chronic low back pain, various gastro things, weird arm and hand pain, and now (again) intense anxiety/panic attacks. I’ve had anxiety attacks on and off for 17 years, and while I know it's my mind just doing its distraction scheme, I often forget this and need to be re-assured. It’s also a very difficult thing to deal with because the symptoms are so terrifying and troubling. Add the fact that they almost *always* hit early in the morning when I’m asleep, and it's a truly awful experience. I don't get the "I’m dying of a heart attack" thing, I get the "intense waves of fear and insanity" thing...and it can last for hours. I had another one this morning and have been a wreck all day. Here's something that should've clued me in. I play a lot of racquetball. For the last 5 months or so, I’ve had really bad "tennis elbow" during and after I play. This is actually a very intense arm pain that hurts like hell during a game and pretty much lingers between r'ball sessions (usually a couple of days). And even though it hurt, I just totally ignored it. Well, as soon as I started having the anxiety again, guess what. The arm pain, even during really hard play, completely disappeared. So I know I should just rest assured that as long as I do the mental work the symptoms will subside, but it’s always great to hear from you all about your stories of anxiety as a TMS equivalent. I appreciate any feedback/support. Cheers, Moose [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.