Many people experience strong feelings and sensations associated with fear and anxiety. They are especially powerful when they occur for seemingly no reason. Consequently, many people react to these "out of the blue" feelings with fear, which only serves to inflame them. To better understand these strong impending doom feelings, the anxiety symptom “fear of impending doom” is often described as one or many of the following:
- Feeling like something awful is about to occur
- A sense that something very dangerous is about to happen
- An overwhelming feeling you are about to die
- A strong feeling that something terrible is about to happen and there isn’t anything you can do about it
- A strong feeling of death and destruction that suddenly comes over you
- An overwhelming fear of impending doom, destruction, despair, and gloom
- A horrible feeling of doom and gloom that washes over you
- Fear of impending doom that begins or accompanies a panic attack or anxiety attack
- Such a strong feeling of impending doom that you feel you have to escape immediately or something terrible will happen
This strong feeling of impending doom can occur suddenly and wash over you at anytime and anywhere.
This strong feeling of impending doom can come and go rarely, occur frequently, or persist indefinitely. For example, you may feel a strong fear of impending doom once in a while and not that often, feel it off and on, or feel it all the time.
This strong feeling of impending doom may precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety sensations and symptoms, or occur by itself.
This strong feeling of impending doom can precede, accompany, or follow an episode of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and elevated stress, panic attack or anxiety attack, or occur “out of the blue” and “for no apparent reason.”
This strong feeling of impending doom can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. It can also come in waves, where it’s strong one moment and eases off the next.
This strong feeling of impending doom can change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment.
All of the above combinations and variations are common.
This strong feeling can be more disconcerting when undistracted, when trying to rest or go to sleep, or when woken up with it during the night, or when waking up first thing in the morning.
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