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Is this anxiety?

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Amberkitten7654321 · 14/02/2025 12:19

I am extremely lucky that I rarely struggle with anxiety in day to day life. By that I mean my life is stressful (two teenagers, stressful job) and I often feel very stressed but I can cope and find ways to deal with it. The past few days I physically feel very weird - my limbs feel tingley like filled with adrenaline, I am extremely jittery and feel nervous / butterflies constantly even though I can’t work out what would cause this. I’m sleeping well, have thought through everything coming up but nothing jumps out as being particularly stressful. I feel a bit like I’m going crazy in my head and a bit dizzy thinking about it.
is this physical anxiety, and what could’ve brought it on? It feels like I’ve overdosed on caffeine but I haven’t changed anything.
i can’t focus on anything at work and want to cancel all my plans as I just want to curl up in bed and hide.

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Orangesandlemons77 · 14/02/2025 17:53

You have teenagers, what age are you? I had anxiety like this around the perimenopause (mid 40s for me) which was like this. Could be hormonal.

crankytoes · 14/02/2025 18:03

Sounds like anxiety. If it's new and unexplained and you are in your 40s it could ge perimenopause. HRT was a Lifesaver

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