My anxiety symptoms are palpitations, shallow breathing and sweating, when they first started it was very brief, about a couple of minute and no rapid breathing, it felt like a tightness in my diaphragm and a feeling of dread but nothing specific was on my mind. Today it has grown in duration lasting hours and on a really bad day it will go all day, it feels similar to the feeling one gets before a stressful event. I don’t have any control over this and aside from taking Ativan to ease the intensity I have to ride it out. I know it’s depression and anxiety but until I can find a medication that works for me I will have to endure.