:wave: I am a 31 year old female with four young boys all under the age of 11. For the last 3 months i have been getting hot flushes accompanied by a rapid heart beat, dizziness and shaking and feeling as if i am going to feint. Sometimes these attacks are mild and sometimes they can scare the pants off me. Appart from these attacks i also have a feeling of being in a dream as if i am not really here and everything is not real. I have also had tingling sensations on the back of my hands in the past and tiniitis. Some days all the muscles in my body feel really tight and i stretch in all sorts of strange ways (I look like i'm warming up for a marathon) and sometimes my head feels tight. I'm too scared to go to the doctor because i am afraid it is all in my head and there is nothing wrong with me. I have also had what seems like a cold with a stuffy runny nose since these sensations started. Am I suffering from anxiety and if so do i really have to see the doctor for medication or can i get over this by myself??:blob_fire

sounds like it to me, but I would think its best to go to a dr and make sure something else isn't going on and maybe he can help you evaluate whether you need meds, counseling, both. Whether you can get over it yourself depends on how bad, being sure it is anxiety. some of the symptoms like having a cold sounds different to me. You could be on a temporary overload but I would check out all the symptoms, how are you sleeping? What brings them on, go away?

Being winter here in Australia at the moment, i think the cold i have is just a coincidence.