Jeffrey Lewis has an awesome song about anxiety attacks:
I lay down every night but I can’t get no rest
Cause it starts spinning in my brain and then it’s pounding in my chest
What if I wasted all my youth
What if I wasted growing up
What if I wasted my whole life oh man I’d feel like throwing up
It’s an anxiety attack, an anxiety attack
I’ve got a bad case of the horrors and at night it comes back
Cause first I look back at my week and then I look back at my year
And then I’m terrified to speak and then I’m paralysed with fear
And I’m tossing and I’m turning and I’m going round the bend
All I see are all my failings
Downward spirals without end
Then I see horror in the future and I see horror in the past
And its 4 am, 5 am and 6 am at last
Cause what if I never feel grown up
Then die in a car accident
And what if I go crazy and what if this time it’s permanent
And what I go broke and have to move back with my parents
And then what if I get cancer and I ain’t got no insurance
All my days are moving faster and it’s making me feel dizzy
How come I get nothing done but always feel so busy
And I used to feel so smart
You know I used to feel so strong
But this just can’t be how to live
I must be doing something wrong
Because everything I might do feels like something else I can’t
And then another day is gone and I just don’t know where it went
I try not to hang too much
Try not to watch too much television
But still everything I do just seems to be the wrong decision
And I lay down every night but still I can’t get no rest
Cause it starts spinning in my brain and then it’s pounding in my chest
it’s an anxiety attack, an anxiety attack
I’ve got a bad case of the horrors and at night it comes back
