Anxiety when unwell

Hello lovely people.

I think I just need some reassurance, since right now I'm incapable of managing it myself.

I have a rotten chest infection at the moment, I can barely breathe and I'm dizzy and hot and overall having a bad time. I don't know whether it's the fever, the breathlessness, or the antibiotics but I've woken up so horribly anxious today. It keeps coming in waves, I can't face food, and I keep wanting to throw up.

Normally I would do some nice deep breathing but when I try, it sets me off coughing and wheezing which doesn't stop until I can barely breathe.

I've managed my anxiety incredibly well this past couple of years and I'm out of practice with feeling like this. I keep telling myself it will pass but then I start catastrophising that it won't or that I've lost the ability to cope.