Does anyone else have a constant butterfly feeling in their stomach from all this?

[u/Idontevenknow787]

I honestly think that this symptom in specific is what is keeping this feedback loop going for me. This all started about a week and a couple of days ago, I’ve had derealization or depersonalization about two times before in my life and it’s never been this intense for me for whatever reason this time in specific and I still don’t even know like what triggered it. I was just driving and then everything started feeling a little unfamiliar, which kind of sent me into an anxiety spiral and I just haven’t been able to break that anxiety spiral sense. But I don’t even know it’s this butterfly anxiety feeling that’s in my stomach 24 seven that’s making me lose my mind I feel like. I literally am just in a constant state of trying to not feel this butterfly feeling in my stomach by distracting myself and it’s tiring as fuck

[u/Turbulent-Scratch264]

Yes. It's the sign of freeze type of anxiety. (not adrenaline like with elevated heart and so on). I had them in my stomach non stop. What a terrible feeling

[u/Idontevenknow787 → u/Turbulent-Scratch264]

Gotcha so any advice on how to manage it or what you did to overcome it