"choked up" it is how anxiety grips you, how it makes you feel as if you cannot catch a breath. I would sometimes crawl away and hide. Trying to avoid everything and everyone, how I would feel caught in a web of despair. I sometimes am out in a place and having fun and then I get "choked up". Walls feel to close in on me and all I want to do is get away and be alone. I fight through and take a breath try to relax, calm my mind.