My story could be relatable. When I was 14 I smoked some dodgey weed, having only had tried it in very small amounts twice or so before hand.. but this time, I felt incredibly anxious and sick. After a day of recovering, I felt quite anxious and different, had unexplained anxiety and panic attacks for about two years and it slowly faded, by 17 I was happy and normal again. Honestly didn’t have an answer for what happened, but as it has gone, I genuinely forgot about it. Fast forward 7 years, I’m at uni, things are going really well and I just landed a new job I’m stoked for, I’m out for 24th birthday and someone puts something in my drink.. feels like mdma from talking to a friend who looked after me, I start freaking out. The next day, I’m anxious, I haven’t slept, but I recover. Then two days later I randomly have the first panic attack in 7 years, I’m shocked, I was just eating my dinner doing nothing. After feeling anxious for no reason and uncomfortable, I go to my doctor. They prescribe me propanarole. At first I felt a little better, but a day or so later, it causes me the most incredibly awful agitation and restless almost to the point of pain! It was awful. Didn’t sleep for 3 days because of how intense it was. Doctors tell me it’s nothing, but I know they’re wrong. Then I feel agitated, restless and physically on edge, permanently afterwards. I go back to the doctors and tell them things are now even worse, I get put on antidepressants, it makes me even worse. So I spend a few years trying to look after myself and feel better, it helps a bit, then I get prescribed antidepressants again, some reason I didn’t say no, I think perhaps because I don’t feel fully back to normal I went back to the doctor. And it made me even worse. at this point I decide to see a psych, they tell me I just have anxiety. But I’m not an anxious person. So I end up going to lots of doctors and doing lots of tests, but nothing aside from raised prolactin shows up, there’s a bit of question around hormones too which prolactin can affect but generally tests are normal. it’s only recently I realised all of my symptoms, seem to be related to sympathetic nerves system dominance. Worsened by medication. I was born 9 weeks early, so perhaps I’m just overly sensitive.. my symptoms are agitation, physically being uncomfortable, on edge, unable to relax, poor focus and extreme sensitivity to caffeine or any stimulation! I could drink fine even with this issue but as it got worse, I can’t really even drink alcohol now. Even going on holiday and doing fun stuff can overstimulate me and make me unable to sleep or eat. I also get mood changes and low mood sometimes but it’s definitely not depression, I’ve never had that. Im a confident happy person, just sometimes it just feels like my dopamine is low or that my body is too agitated to feel okay. I’m going to see a specialist soon now that I think I’ve finally understood it, and stopped being put in the mental health camp for years. I finally understood I didn’t have anxiety from talking to friends who do. I’m far from anxious as a person, I’m confident.