I need help!

Hello there @exuberantCoconut4457 , feeling overwhelmed for little to no obvious reason and experiencing a pain in your chest can be an incredibly stressful experience. I can understand your worries and want to reach out for help.

As a listener and a sufferer of GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) & social anxiety, physical symptoms of anxiety can be incredibly distressing especially when there's no simple explanation for them. From what you've described it sounds you could also be suffering from GAD or a form of anxiety. There are many treatment routes either through self help, therapy, chatting etc.

Firstly know anxiety is manageable and you can feel better :), how you reach a better state is completely dependent on your preferences. It's advisable to see a doctor if your symptoms are persistent and intervene in your daily life and go through the path of diagnosis and therapeutical treatment. However not all can afford or want to go down that option, help is here for you!

💙Here are a few things you can do to help yourself (text in blue is clickable) :

-Reach out to a listener about your anxiety Browse Listeners Here

-Take an online self help course, we offer one here on 7cups Press Here

-Educate yourself on anxiety and gently integrate techniques to manage it, a good guide is Press Here

-Try journalling, as cliché as it may sound it can really help express your feelings and come to the bottom of them, here is a good site to use for that Press Here

Thankyou so much :)

I will try this.

Please Pray for me.

Thankyou so much.

It means alot :)

I know exactly how you feel. I have panic disorder and bad anxiety and I can be laying in bed calm and all of a sudden for no reason at all feel overwhelmed, chest pain, I feel like I'm dying or having a heart attack. It's always my anxiety. When my father and I speak about it he always asks "How many heart attacks have you had?" And I say "A million" cause that is what a panic attack feels like for me. Stay strong and breathe when you feel this way. When we have anxiety we tend to take shallow breaths which make the chest pain worse. Try to tell yourself you are OK and this WILL pass. Try to get into a psychiatrist if your anxiety is out of control or interfering with your everyday life. Nobody should have to suffer like that. Stay strong, I'm always here if you need someone to talk to. <3