Sudden feeling of impending doom

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For no apparent reason. I have nothing major going on that merits that sinking feeling. A couple of bills to pay — but I have the money to pay them. No back to school or college or work blues. No health concerns, apart from getting older and stiffer. I had a nice weekend away with friends topped off by a particularly good Sunday lunch in a beautiful old town yesterday. My DP and I went for a walk after saying goodbye to the friends and had one of those lovely, close hours, just happy to be with each other.

Today I've been fine, got things done. And now, just now, out of nowhere, that horrible sinking feeling of impending doom.

Anyone else ever get this? Any ideas why?

Is it viral?

This reminds me of the worst feeling of doom experience I ever had. I went to a major industry bash at a posh London hotel: dinner, drinks, the lot. Came home and put the terrible feeling of doom down to too much booze. Discovered 12 hours later that it was salmonella poisoning. 50% of the guests had gone down with it.

Yikes so how do you know if you're NOT having a heart attack??

I get this with reflux.. which comes with chest pains... ('ve been to the gp etc)

Thanks for this. I think it's extremely likely that the change in my HRT prescription has had something — maybe not everything — to do with his. I'll live with it for a day or two but if it doesn't shift I'll need to go back to the GP and see if there's something else I can try.

I would have said PMT. It's always PMT. But if your on HRT it's definitely hormone related.

Might you have covid? In our family it gave us all dark thoughts and impending doom feeling. It n raft its why I tested last time.

I get this in the mornings, it slowly goes away as I get up and about and get moving, but I do make sure I have quite a slow morning so I'm feeling ok by the time I leave for work.
I'm putting it down to peri menopause.

I had no idea this was a thing. Fascinating.

Yep I get this, for me it’s hormonal…it lasts a day or two. Crazy how the mind and body works.

sounds like anxiety to me. I always think something awful is going to happen.

Me too- mornings when I wake up. I can't lie in bed. Have to get up and get on.

I hope not. I've had it four times already, last time in June, and it seems to get a bit worse each time.

Also have low blood pressure and get this. I’d not known that low blood pressure could do that (I thought was anxiety)

Well that’s terrifying! What else happens ?

This is what I want to know! Apparently you also get it with sepsis.
argh.

I used to get this a lot, we called it the Sudden Despair. Turned out I was anemic and had low blood pressure.

It got worse when I lost lots of blood in childbirth (over 3pt). I kept obsessing about death. GP referred me for talking therapy which was less than useless and tried to make out I'm psychotic. I withdrew from therapy because she made judgemental comments about my relationship history (!)

But then I got given high dose ferrous sulphate in my second pregnancy and it turned me into a new woman after a few months on it. A miracle cure. So many things got better, I stopped getting so many mouth ulcers for example

I'm 35 and have had this a lot too. I always say go DH "something's bothering me but I don't know what it is".

Sometimes I can work out what's triggered it, sometimes I can't.

I get this sometimes. I do suffer from anxiety though. And the feeling of doom is usually triggered when I'm in the second half of my cycle. I hate it.

I'll add, I'm pretty sure mine is anxiety related

I've had sepsis and it's a much stronger feeling than op is describing. Literally feels like you're dying. You clutch your nearest love one and tell them you're dying. A couple of friends of mine have had it (all of us, childbirth related) and they did the same.

I'm pretty sure you don't have sepsis op, you'd know

I very occasionally get a run of nights where I sort of half wake up in the middle of the night feeling doomy. I remember first having this in my late twenties.
Last time it happened I researched a bit online, and kept seeing magnesium mentioned. I try to take it daily now and can't remember when I last had a doom episode - maybe there could be a link?
Mine was always in the middle of the night though, never in the day.

This reminds me of a documentary I watched where doctors were rolling their eyes and laughing at people on the internet looking things up because of how extreme it got so quickly and there was nothing wrong with them.

It was in the US but here it's actually kind of depressing because these are people who read something online and waste GPs' time because someone told them they were having a heart attack/had sepsis.

I get this. I have anxiety anyway, but hate winter. Also surrounded by a few very ill people atm .

I've had this quite a few times.
Nothing weird happened.

I make sure I remember that fact when I start to feel it again!

I think you're having down from the weekend. A kind of that was really good , now what . When's my next happy time .. that kind of thing . I get this quite often !

To be human is to suffer. Existential angst innit.

but also, peri and the nights drawing in.

oh and my mate gets this with a vitamin D deficiency. Just a thought.