kel32,
I get the physical symptoms also. Add "lump in the throat".
The first time I saw my psychiatrist, she asked me about how I slept. I told her that I constantly woke up in the night thinking about work, and then unable to get back to sleep.
She told me then about sleep hygiene. Dumb term. Her words, not mine. But they actually worked. The big thing for me was not drinking coffee after 4pm. Additionally, I have empty my brain before sleep via a guided meditation or similar. So rather than going to sleep with thoughts about work in my head, I can go to sleep with, say, the sounds of birds in the forest.
Next trick.... do you have any distraction and coping tools? Do you meditate? If you think back to when you were last anxious, what happened immediately before that? Can you identify a trigger? Could write an entire post on this but will stop here.
You said that you think your doctor is missing something. Have you had your iron/ferritin levels checked? I am being treated as if I have haemochromatosis because my ferritin level were high. It has symptoms of depression, anxiety, mood swings, irritability, etc.
So I sort of know what you are going through, and the hard part is working out the cause to it all. Of course, all of the above is based on my experiences with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist, and other specialists and the doctor who takes blood out of me (for haemochromatosis).
I hope you get something from my post,
Tim
