I feel numb.

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Well the trouble is as soon as the anxiety sets in my body prepares for actual danger, and according to my psychology class it takes at least 2 hours to go back to the more calm normal state, regardless of what you tell yourself. So like if someone drops something loudly on the floor and it startles me chances are I will feel more anxious than usual for quite a while. But there are some ways to decrease it like focusing on breathing, but yeah that only helps a little.

I haven't undergone a specific event most people would call traumatizing but I experience the same PTSD symptoms. People talking, people getting within a few feet of me, a bell ringing, the phone ringing, a dog's nails on the floor all cause me extreme anxiety when I'm a few hours late to take my anti-anxiety medicine (which happens more often than it should). But the medicine decreases these responses significantly and it doesn't have the horrid side effects many antidepressants have in people sensitive to side effects. I recommend seeing about being prescribed anti-anxiety medicine.

Well it is something to think about...though I am a bit concerned that could interfere with my ability to actually sense real danger...both cause me to feel anxious but the times I have felt that way and gotten out of the area I was in only to find out something did take place. Like when I was walking around in town I started getting an anxious feeling and noticed a group of people who seemed to be having some sort of verbal conflict I had my headphones on and could not hear them but still felt I should get out of there as quickly as I could...then about 10 minutes later the cops start heading that way.

I actually am pretty circumspect about actual danger in real life even when on anxiety medicine. (Well as circumspect as ever. I have a tendency to wave money around in public places without realizing it but I've always had that.) I definitely still stay away from shady-looking situations like what you describe. I think it just mutes the excessive and improperly-set-off alarm system that causes anxiety at harmless things.

maybe, but prescriptions are still quite expensive, and thus far I have cannabis for that...but yeah I don't know has horrible as things get I have dealt with it all without taking a pill every morning. I cannot say for sure some sort of anti-anxiety prescription would help or not so it could.