The Anxiety

First, your heart speeds up. You can feel it racing as it smashing against your ribs, trying to break free from it's cage.

Then your lungs turn against you. The very air you breathe burns, and you have to take every breath deliberate and slow through your mouth, yet you still end up panting until it becomes full blown hyperventilation.

Next is that horrible ache in your jaw. The only way to satiate it is to clench your teeth together, and that works. For a few seconds. You try everything, biting, chewing, pressing against them. Nothing makes it go away.

After that, you start shaking. Your hands tremble as you focus on them, your feet tap, you absolutely cannot keep your fingers still.

The last part, the worst part, is your mind. It knows why you feel like this and it throws it in your face. It starts with a small thought and spider webs from there. What if this, you could have that. It's your fault. It's going to go wrong. This is going to happen, that's going to happen, they're going to hate you, YOU MESSED UP, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, NOTHING GOES RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU JUST STAYED AWAY.