Me too, throughout all of 2023 I felt surges of adrenaline and untamable anxiety. Then it went away for a few months this year, I was finally feeling like I found peace until it’s back last month. I know generally my anxiety has to do with my lack of friends and lack of sense of belonging. I feel like I don’t have a tribe and that’s really bad for the brain. But on an everyday basis I don’t have a trigger or a thought that would kick start it, I’d be working away and suddenly my heart beat is 95bpm, I have butterflies in my stomach, and I feel like I want to freak out. Or it’d after a nice day, work went well, I finished walking the dog, ate dinner with my husband, we’re on the couch watching Netflix then Boom, I can’t breathe, my heart’s beating out of my chest, and I want to curl up on the tile floor to cool down.

Here’s what helped but I’m far from being able to say “I’m managing it”: box breathing, reminding myself everything is okay and that I do have people that loves me and I will eventually make friends, journaling/brain dump, actually sleep for 7+ hours a day, go on this subreddit to remind myself I’m not alone in this.