u/StarfallSin

Habe eine Angststörung mit der ich mit Therapie alleine nicht mehr klarkomme, deswegen suche ich einen netten Psychiater, der/die sich gut um seine Patienten kümmert.

Falls jemand auch Probleme damit hatte, meine Ängste lösen primär krasse somatische Beschwerden, die mich ziemlich fertig machen. Ein Psychiater, der/die da gut bewandert ist, wäre toll.

Am liebsten linksrheinisch nähe Nippes/Innenstadt. Bin aber nicht wählerisch

I‘m 29F. I‘ve had muscle weakness like I‘m carrying extra weights and fatigue for 3 weeks now

- first it started symmetrically in the legs, primarily my ankle and shins, and is travelling to and from my thighs
- 1.5 weeks ago my arms feel heavy too
- since yesterday, my right buttock fell asleep like a pinched nerve and I can still feel it today
- my jaw felt tense and numb after eating for a couple days last week, mostly gone now
- my head felt heavy on my body, idk how to describe it. Like it took effort keeping my head up. it was preceded by another anxiety attack

I have severe panic and anxiety disorder with agoraphobia and am definitely a hypochondriac.

In the last 3 weeks I‘ve had panic about my acid reflux and thinking I got Barrett‘s or even Esophagus Cancer. I don‘t because I‘ve had an upper endoscopy. Only mild gastritis.

Then I thought I poisoned myself with homemade garlic oil that I left out in a bowl for 5 days. I even called poison control. Spoiler: I didn‘t. You still should be careful ablut food safety btw, it wasn‘t a 0% risk lol.

I‘ve also had panic and anxiety attacks which feel extremely physical to me. I tense a lot too. I don‘t move around much, which probably doesn‘t make it better.

I went to my Dr. today and he took blood for some blood test (probably vitamins or sth? forgot to ask) and they booked me an appointment for an MRI in 4 days.

Now I‘m crying and freaking out about potentially having MS. Please help.

Did SSRI / SNRI help your HA and therefore your Agoraphobia and physical symptoms?

I‘m genuinely just so so so tired. I have had GAD for 8 years and Agoraphobia with Panic Disorder vor 6 months. I‘ve always had some kind of Health Anxiety when my GAD started, but not to this degree.

Everyday I wake up with a additional and/or different symptoms

I cannot do this any longer. I want my life and my healthy body back. This all started because I had the worst flu of my life 7 months ago over NYE. I was making good progress with my agoraphobia and HA through CBT and exposure afterwards, then recently had a major setback.

I‘m TIRED of being fatigued and not being able to sleep and exist alone properly. I‘m tired of being a burden to my family and friends. I actually love life and travelling and experiences so much. Fuck I just hate feeling held hostage by my body. I want to live

So yeah I‘m contemplating begging a psychiatrist for an SSRI even though I‘n terrified of them. I just need the baseline to lower so I can actually work on exposure therapy.

Anxiety is giving me new symptoms right when I get over the old ones.

Today when I was walking with my safety person, I experienced uncomfortable anxiety when walking that got worse with missed heartbeats (PVCs). It‘s like anxiety triggers PVCs and PVCs in turn trigger anxiety even more.
This results in a suuuper uncomfortable pit in my stomach and anxiety adrenaline dumps in my chest. It got better at the end on the way home but I reaaaallly hate these adrenaline dumps.
It‘s what I only used to feel during airplane turbulences and roller coasters, or standing at the edge of a cliff when I was normal before my anxiety disorder.

What can I dooooo

Does anxiety cause legs to feel weak/fatigued faster?

I have had high anxiety the last 2 weeks with multiple health anxiety scares, anxiety attacks and 1 major panic attack and my legs have been feeling heavy since. Directly at the beginning of 2 weeks.

I habe calmed down a lot since yesterday, but my legs just feel like lead all the time. I thought I was doing better today morning, had a small exposure (I have agoraphobia) nothing major just going into a supermarket, and my legs, especially my thighs and glutes feel like I did 30 squats. I woke up with tired arms today too.

I googled and I read sth about muscle fatigue can get worse when adrenaline is cleared from your system, but could this really be it?
I‘ll ask my Dr. soon to test me for Ferritin, Vit D and B12 etc, my blood test for my organs was all clear.

Everything except Vitamin D was in the normal range last January and I‘m taking vitamin D but intermittently only

I have had high anxiety the last 2 weeks with multiple health anxiety scares, anxiety attacks and 1 major panic attack and my legs have been feeling heavy since. Directly at the beginning of 2 weeks.

I habe calmed down a lot since yesterday, but my legs just feel like lead all the time. I thought I was doing better today morning, had a small exposure (I have agoraphobia) nothing major just going into a supermarket, and my legs, especially my thighs and glutes feel like I did 30 squats.

I googled and I read sth about muscle fatigue can get worse when adrenaline is cleared from your system, but could this really be it?
I‘ll ask my Dr. soon to test me for Ferritin, Vit D and B12 etc, my blood test for my organs was all clear.

Everything except Vitamin D was in the normal range last January and I‘m taking vitamin D but intermittently only

Jeden verdammten Morgen prescht ein Harley Fahrer zwischen 6 und 6.30 Uhr morgens die Merheimerstraße runter und beschleunigt nochmal auf der Geraden. Und im Sommer, wenn jeder die Fenster auf haben muss (wir hatten fast 30C Innentemperatur!), werd ich jeden morgen um die Uhrzeit wach.

Ich will jetzt nicht auf Ultra-Alman machen, aber das dieser hässliche, blubbernde Geräuschpegel tatsächlich zugelassen wird ist ein Unding!! Selbst von der Müllabfuhr werd ich nicht so oft wach!

JA Geräusche gehören in einer Großstadt dazu, das nimmt man in Kauf wenn man hierherzieht. Ich hab schon immer in Großstädten gewohnt und so geräuschempfindlich bin ich auch nicht. Aber diese Harley Geräusche um diese Uhrzeit sind eine absolute Belästigung.

had 2 panic attacks today, both 10/10 panic

- chest pain: my upper chest and back hurts, probably from muscle tension
- very weak legs
- hyperventilation
- breathing makes my chest and throat feel „raw“, i have acid reflux/LPR so I think that exacerbates it
- dizziness
- muscles tension

I‘m hunched over on the couch waiting for 0.25mg xanax to kick in. my whole body especially my upper chest region hurts. walking to the bathroom my legs feel weak and fatigued, like jelly.

My anxiety increases incredibly because of those symptoms. It feels so damn physical, i just want to cry myself to sleep.

Recovering from agoraphobia with panic disorder feels so incredibly difficult. I have GAD and severe health anxiety as well.

Hi guys, due to immense luck I managed to schedule a gastroscopy 1 week after my GP referred me. Unfortunately I suffer from severe health anxiety and am nervous about the sedation! I think they use Midazolam as a sedative injection and not Propofol. You can opt out of sedation and will only get a local anaesthetic at the back of your throat I think.

I‘m not even that scared regarding the procedure itself (I heard that it‘s rather short?), but the sedation trips me out. Maybe because I had to get a tonsillectomy yeaaaaars ago (as an adult so recovery sucked) and the general anaesthesia there was an uncomfortable experience. A couple seconds before I was knocked out I felt the sedative kinda burning in my veins? It wasn‘t an allergic reaction, the procedure itself was fine but I also hated the waking up part. It felt like something was pushing my consciousness down when I was trying to wake up. It was really uncomfortable. And I yapped about stupid relationship drama to the nurses lol.

What was your experience with the sedation? What did you choose and how was the procedure?

Habe ALLE umliegenden Praxen angerufen und keiner hat mehr Termine vor Jahresende, für danach können die noch keine machen. Wozu zahl ich KK Beiträge eig 🥀

Hi all, I developed agoraphobia with panic disorder this year in February with a focus on public transport and am currently in therapy with a therapist specialising in anxiety disorders and CBT.
I have GAD since 8 years but developed a PD after being physically deconditioned through catching colds and the flu consecutively last winter.

I have been doing longer public transport exposures the last week (1.5-2h) and feel low to moderate anxiety during them, but absolutely crash hours after them. I‘m talking barely being able to lift my body to go brush my teeth or get something to eat.

For example, I‘ve done an exposure yesterday and felt fine coming back home. Made dinner and chilled out on the couch playing Pokopia as a reward. But after 3h I felt extreme physical exhaustion which also led to poor sleep. I got over 7h of sleep and my HRV is also in the 70s, but I did not feel rested at all.

I went for a walk to expel some of that cortisol/adrenaline/etc and felt a bit better, but after a short while I felt physically extremely exhausted again. I have a slight headache, feel dizzy when I walk from room to room, and my limps feel heavy.

Is this normal to an extent? This is the first week restarting exposure exercises. Granted I‘ve had a busy weekend and bad sleep a couple nights ago, but I just feel this level of exhaustion is disproportionate

Hi all, I developed agoraphobia with panic disorder this year in February with a focus on public transport and am currently in therapy with a therapist specialising in anxiety disorders and CBT.
I have GAD since 8 years but developed a PD after being physically deconditioned through catching colds and the flu consecutively last winter.

I have been doing longer public transport exposures the last week (1.5-2h) and feel low to moderate anxiety during them, but absolutely crash hours after them. I‘m talking barely being able to lift my body to go brush my teeth or get something to eat.

For example, I‘ve done an exposure yesterday and felt fine coming back home. Made dinner and chilled out on the couch playing Pokopia as a reward. But after 3h I felt extreme physical exhaustion which also led to poor sleep. I got over 7h of sleep and my HRV is also in the 70s, but I did not feel rested at all.

I went for a walk to expel some of that cortisol/adrenaline/etc and felt a bit better, but after a short while I felt physically extremely exhausted again. I have a slight headache, feel dizzy when I walk from room to room, and my limps feel heavy.

Is this normal to an extent? This is the first week restarting exposure exercises. Granted I‘ve had a busy weekend and bad sleep a couple nights ago, but I just feel this level of exhaustion is disproportionate

Does Rayhaan Aquatica really get better with maceration?

Just tried my bottle of Aquatica that came in the mail. Right off the bat it‘s a lime bomb with additional lime and some lime. It‘s giving car freshener

After 30min I can faintly make out coconut, but it‘s nowhere close to the piña colada people make it out to be. I tested Creed VIW in the store and it‘s much better blended, smoother/airier and less lime heavy. I just can‘t justify the price though.

Aquatica isn‘t bad per se, I really like freshies, but it‘s also not what it‘s made out to be. Does it get better with time?

Edit: Batch was made in 04/2026, it‘s 06/2026 currently (for future reference)

I ordered decants of dupes of Bianco Latte and all of them smell HORRIBLE on me:

- Riiffs Noor: No. Just no. It smells like vanilla baking concentrate mixed with rancid milk??

- Khadlaj Cream Velvet: I see everyone raving about it, but on my skin it smells similar to Riiffs Noor. As if I poured the moldy heavy cream in the back of my fridge on me omg.

- Lattafa Eclair: This does not smell too similar to the other two, but it‘s also not pleasant to me. Something just smells OFF, it‘s very sweet but still kind of smells like BO??

I also ordered Riiffs Zenith (dupe to Queening) and Panache Angel Dust (dupe to YSL Libre Vanille Couture) and especially Panache smells HEAVENLY. I don’t think vanilla scents don’t work on me, it’s the bakery vanilla scents that don’t agree with me. I‘m def. going to order Panache.

I don‘t think that they‘re bad perfumes - I‘ll have vanilla perfume friends try them and maybe the scents will smell better on them. I‘m just super bamboozled that ALL of the BL dupes smell terrible on me lol. Shows that you really shouldn‘t blind buy perfumes. I unfortunately can‘t try out the original BL

Has anyone had similar experiences? Maybe my nose just isn‘t used to it, because I usually go for freshies, floral, fruity, or spicy sweet (like Khamrah) perfumes.

Hi guys. I‘m half arab and growing up my mom mostly spoke German to me, I didn‘t grow up learning arab well because I was also a very stubborn and rebellious child and I regret that. I‘m sad I‘m missing out on connecting with family and being unable to speak arabic and consume arab media, especially because I‘m often in arab countries. But I‘m very lost in how to approach learning Arabic because I feel pulled in different directions:

I‘m half Moroccan + half German and grew up in UAE basically just speaking German and English. We speak German in my household and English when we‘re outside. Most of my friends were German or spoke it and in UAE virtually everyone speaks English.

- I could speak a bit Moroccan growing up because of summer vacations there, but I mostly lost it and I understand things in passing. Plus moroccan is such a different dialect, I don‘t think it makes much sense learning it as a first dialect, most likely as a second though.

- in UAE I grew up mostly around Gulf dialects

- I can read and write the entire alphabet

- I can speak basic conversational sentences

Friends told me most people will understand me if I learn MSA and a levantine dialect, but that would be the 3rd main dialect that I‘d be exposed to, idk if that makes things harder.

I also have no idea what resources to use. I have a good friend from Egypt who grew up with me in UAE and who could practice speaking with me. But what other guided resources are there? And also should I just start with MSA??

I‘m pretty confused on where and how to start given my background. Also realistically, how well could I speak arabic if I studied 1-2h per day?

I just feel so hopeless right now. Woke up at 7am with a full blown panic attack, my HR climbed to 160bpm+ and I legit had the worst feeling of impending doom. I thought I was going to die. I was also all alone.

I called a friend who’s coming over now, but I kept getting worse and called an ambulance (europe) thinking ‚this is it, my heart is going to explode‘. They took my vitals(ECG, blood pressure, spo2 all fine) and I started to feel a bit better.

I can‘t do this anymore. I have been battling anxiety for years, now nocturnal panic attacks have appeared since last year. I don‘t know what to do. I‘m in therapy. I have virtually no stress in life. My family, partner, and friends are all loving and supportive.

The panic attacks ripping me out of dead sleep are the worst too, so disorienting and I still feel so anxious afterwards too. I hate this. I feel like this is going to be my life forever. Just fearing the next big one and resetting the progress I have made.

It feels like a never ending battle that I know I can‘t win, only manage. I‘m young, how will I cope when I get older and start having actual emergencies? It feels like a rigged coin flip of panic attack vs heart failure