Is this situation familiar to you? After a period of extreme anxiety or physical torment, you end up surviving and feel like you can take on the entire damn world? I know I sure as hell do right now.

For the past two weeks, I had been developing extremely bad anxiety based off logical conclusions my mind had come to. I couldn't sleep at night. My dreams were beginning to become constant nightmares. There would be moments where I had trouble breathing. Hell, I couldn't even eat yesterday. It had gotten to the point where I was bolting to the shower and desperately turning on the water, just so I could get rid of that choking cold feeling that was spreading throughout my body.

And then I wake up after passing out. All that anxiety begins to slip away. I'm able to eat once again, and now the only pain I have is in my back from lying down to much. I think part of the reason why is because I opened the dish-washer and had a giant ass cockroach sitting in there, startling the hell out of me and pumping in some adrenaline.

Whatever the reason, I know one thing: I'm not back to my old self. I'm better then before, and I intend to prove it. [censored] does it feel good to have that confidence back.


So has this ever happened to anyone? If so, tell us your story. Maybe you can inspire some of the shlocks that like to preach "There exist no hope for the human race!" in the process.

I used to feel invincible, then at a point got really depressed for a few years. I read something recently that people that commonly feel invincible/untouchable/God-like have a tendancy to get depression at some point in life.

Know the feeling,Anxiety svcks.

usually after using the bathroom.

No, but sometimes I go through bursts of extreme confidence.

Like 2 days ago, I nearly almost sorta talked to the girl I like...

Invincibility, especially in combination with invisibility is a phenomenon known to almost every asymmetric couple, where at least one of the two or is married already. The 'deadly' risks lead to an adrenaline boost unfelt before then, the great euphoria, the ultimate kick... but not for very, very long *ouch*

What goes up must come down, remember? And the higher we fly the deeper we fall. Normally we learn our lessons, but the maniac-depressive can't, he repeats the ups and downs over and over again in short intervals. He's a medical case, one of several millions in the West, nowadays.

I have not. I don't think anyone should feel invincible, as we are the farthest thing from it.

I get that feeling usually after beating a hard level or boss in a game.... if it's a good game though it will quickly remind me that I am just another peon mortal.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I have no idea what you're on about

There is a difference between survivability and invincibility. You are now confident that you can survive, and grow stronger with it, and that's a good thing.

I thought I'd finished off my bag of doughnuts. But before I threw the bag away, I noticed one more left. I've never felt more alive.

And you didn't start a thread about it? I'm proud. But yeah, that sounds like me at the peak of self-confidence.

It's good to get rid of anxiety, isn't it? You can breathe again. Cherish it while it lasts. I don't really have moments like this, my recovery tends to be gradual; the only thing I can say about feeling invincible is that it's extremely short-lived. You can't take on the world with feelings alone... Baby steps are better, I think. May take me towards being strong instead of only feeling like I am. That would be preferable.

I thought it was one of her least cryptic posts. Deciphering them is half the fun.

One time when I was about 19-20 at night time I was walking through the city and 3 guys tried to mug me. Well I currently had 600 dollars in cash on me, and I wasnt prepared to give it away. So I ran from them, as they chased me down. Eventually I started cutting through people's lawns and hopping fences to get away from. After a few fences jumped, I decided to turn around and wait for them as they hopped the fence.

They came one at a time over the fence, as each one of them hopped into the random dark backyard I was in, I pummeled them one at a time (I also used my Steel Toe work boots to my advantage). After about 2 minutes, there was 3 guys on lying on the ground at my feet, all beat up. So I decided to take their wallets and helped myself to all of their cash, which was only like around 15 dollars or so.

But after leaving those guys in that backyard, I felt like the most badass mofugga around. I myself felt invincible. I was actually so adrenaline filled and pumped, that I ran the whole way home and walked around my house for like an hour not able to sit still, just so damn excited I guess.

good story hope you win the next time as well

Ah, don't worry about it. Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain

Being invinsible is something i have beenfora longtime But i guess its a choice... I never been that guy that people notice or the one that gets attention,Kinda like i am not there.

But well,Kinda a choice. and at the moment i am fine as it is.

Be nice to feel that way every once in a while. I just remind myself that i'm garbage, stupid, ignorant, dumb, uneducated, etc..., by the standards of others and the world. My highest point was when I was in college. The material that was presented in front of me, I understood it with little problem. Now, I just look at the material I used to know, giving it a lazy gaze as I think to myself "I was a smart little SoB" during that time.

Whatever, I just move on and deal with everything. The saying goes that [censored] rolls down hill. Well, i'm the bottom of that hill and have to clean it all up.