The easily overwhelmed anixous feeling

so what is up with this easily overwhelmed anxious feeling that lyme can give people? I have read others talking of it on this board.
For me, I got lyme almost 1 year ago, mostly untreated for 7 months and been treating for 4 months. At the peak of it I was homebound with massive anxiety. I have moved past that and feel a lot better than I did.
But still, I feel a lot better when I am home and calm. But when I go out into a busy town it can be anything. Sometimes- much of the time- I feel just fine. then other times the noises and movement and patterns etcetera just overwhelm me, I get either dizzy or anxious or some other unpleasant feeling.

What I am trying to figure out is, how much of this is a symptom, and how much of it is just a response to having had the panic and anxiety previously?

I can't quite asses how much of this is "in my mind" at this point, and how much is physiological. I know 100% that the panic and anxiety and overwhelmed feelings were caused by the tick bite and aftermath of it. But I don't know now, how much of the remnants of it are a post traumatic fear based thing, and how much is the lyme.
I don't even know if I have an active infection anymore. At the peak of my lyme I tested for a low level infection, and I haven't been tested since then.
Sometimes I can go days upon days feeling just fine. Then randomly I will have a bout of dizziness and anxiety.
I didn't have any of that pre lyme.

What I want is for the remnant feelings to be a post traumatic thing and not some permanent malfunction that the bacteria did to my brain. I really can't decipher, when the episodes happen, how much of it is active symptom and how much is just fear based feeling weak.
I got to a phase in treatment where I was feeling much better and confident- doing things with ease that had been much too difficult before in terms of going out, socializing, etcetera.
so I was hopeful to be feeling better.
I just don't know if the lyme and other things caused some permanent damage to my brain and my mind- because I am still so easily overwhelmed, especially by busy movement noise and visual things.
But then if I stay home all day, even with family around, I can feel just fine.
I just hope so much that I can fully heal my mind and get to a place of strength again where I can easily go out, be around movement and people etcetera, and live a normal life again.

what do you all think about this easily overwhelmed and anxious feeling. Is it a symptom, I mean I know it is a symptom, but it went away mostly but I am still so fragile.

what supplements help with this ? How do I reset the neurotransmitters in my brain?

Katebirch- I just wanted to say that your post sounds like I wrote it. I totally relate. If I'm home, with just family, I still have other symptoms but the anxiety is not really there. It all changes when I leave the house, or if I'm alone for an extended period of time. I know it isn't as bad as it was before any treatment, but sometimes I worry that something has been permanently altered in my brain chemistry.

And it is extra hard that my family doesn't really understand what I am feeling. My husband in particular has been so helpful to me during this hell. but now I think he thinks I am exaggerating and making things up to get out of doing things, and he gets impatient with me about it. I am like- I can't go do that thing, it is too scary and overwhelming for me, and he is like come on. Like I am just being lazy. he has to pick up my slack.
But really I just want to stay home as much as possible, and if I go out I need to have y valium in my bag with me incase I get a panic attack, and I need to not go too far from home.
It is awful and debilitating.
So there are many of us here experiencing this--- is there anyone on here who has gotten fully over this feeling? And if so how and how long did it take? I need some hope that I can get better.
People tell me I need to have a positive attitude but I just feel like my brain is totally messed up from all this. I seriously don't know if I will ever feel strong again :(

I understand. My worst symptom. The smallest things can seem daunting.

As someone else posted, you need to treat your hormones and neurotransmitters with supplements.

I found this yesterday: http://www.treatlyme.net/lyme-treatment-guidelines/

Sounds like ashwagandha will help us both. It supposively "helps deal with the emotional stress of being sick" among other things.

Have you had your thyroid checked in a blood test? That is also something that can be treated if off

yes, I am much better with the psychiatric stuff than before. I think I had bartonella. I tested negative for it but my doctor thought I had it. I have been on rifampin for a while now and had a brutal initial herx period too, which subsided.
Now I just feel this low level anxiety- like just unsteady and unsure of my balance and brain- but like I said sometimes it is totally gone. I was doing things I could never do in the height of it-- like I took my kid to the pool last month which was a huge step for me as I could not do that before with all my fear. So I had marked improvements. I used to not be able to go to the store. so I know I am doing better ---just lately things are a little shaky.

I know. sigh. Especially because I have a young child and I often cant do thing I want to do and have to have my husband pull the extra burden. My husband is sympathetic and kind, but at a point he gets burned out and tired of me complaining about it--- and I think he thinks I exaggerate it and that I could be stronger about it and push through but he doesn't fully get it.