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10, 2013  Could I have anxiety?  Dear Ask The Doctor: Recently
(over the past two years or so), I've been quite nervous or
scared to do certain things like, shower when no one's home,
leave my room when it's dark. I'm fourteen and I've had four
episodes that seem like panic attacks - all lasting around 20-30
minutes. Sometimes, I'll get very nervous or scared, I'll have
symptoms of these episodes, but it doesn't get as bad as the
four times I had those episodes. It usually starts with getting
dizzy and shaky, then a racing heartbeat and from that it just
turns into a full blown episode. I looked online as to why I
salivate so much and one of the reasons were anxiety - I know
not to fully trust that, but it's been concerning me since the
first episode I had a month after I was thirteen. I'm terribly
sorry if this is all hard to understand, I'm not best at
describing something like this to someone. Could this be anxiety
or am I just making it up i