So I have GAD and deal with anxiety attacks rather frequently which is fine! I’m slowly learning to handle them! However, there’s something else I experience and I’m unsure of how to feel about it...

Basically what happens is I’ll feel my heart start beating quick, and a pulsing goes through my body(strange enough similar to an orgasm), and I’ll feel a coolness in my upper back and suddenly I’m feeling fearful and will often back myself up to a wall or wrap my arms around myself.

And while this happens, in my head I get a flurry of different voices and images of memories and thoughts that I have deciding to all cluster together. It takes up my entire thinking area so bad that if someone tries to talk to me while this is happening, I’ll basically say garbled nonsense to them in return as if I were having a stroke.

However, I usually handle it pretty well. It seems to be caused by overstimulation or repetition. It only lasts maybe 30 seconds to a minute and I usually just ride it out, but I guess I’m worried because I don’t know if anyone else experiences this. My Mammaw has schizophrenia and I’m wondering if this is the beginning of the symptoms and that I might have it too? Idk. I’m relatively fine afterward, just a bit off. But my brain is fine and I can answer questions fine afterward and it’s just during the period that I’m messed up.