Overthinking everything and spiraling

[BeBlueAnt]

Most of my life my mental health has been really poor. In the most recent years I've tried all the different medications offered by drs but never found they worked for me.
Recently I've just started spiraling, letting every little thing get to me, mood swings constantly, overthinking every interaction and since I passed my driving test 3 months ago I've been so hard on myself with every small mistake I make when driving.

Work stress and pressure has also made me feel like I'm constantly just above the water and slowly drowning. My partner doesn't understand as he has never had anxiety like this and just passes everything off when it happens.

How do I get over this impending doom? I wake up every single day with my heart racing and thinking about doing things sends me into a panick.

Are you under a good Psychiatrist rather than a GP. They’re the experts in psych drugs and can prescribe combinations that GPs cannot. Some drugs are very good at this king of thought sprialing. X

We often get locked in states of high anxiety due to a build-up of circumstances and/or past experiences and learnings. Whilst the circumstances or situations that caused us to feel anxious might eventually pass, if we have now come to regard feelings of anxiety (overthinking, work stress, your feeling of impending doom) as an indicator of illness.

As soon as we feel ANY anxiety - as we do from day to day as a natural and normal part of life - this causes us to get anxious about the feeling of the anxiety disorder flaring up, or our illness becoming worse. Even when we are on the other side of our anxiety issue, if we continue to regard any feelings of anxiety as an indicator of illness, we will remain vulnerable to relapse should life throw us any difficult or challenging situations in the future.

The reality is that anxiety is a natural feeling that tells us that important things are approaching and enables us to prioritise the important from the trivial. We need to feel it. As soon as we stop fearing the feeling, we stop amplifying it and can get used to the low levels of normal functional anxiety that enhance rather than destroy our lives.

Could you try something like EMDR counselling to help get your "resting rate" anxiety down to something manageable? I use it when I'm feeling overwhelmed, as for me that's when the overthinking and spiralling starts, and I find it really helpful.