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Posted 5/11/2013 6:14 PM (GMT 0)
I have made a few posts and those who don't know my story I have health anxiety that manifests itself in my chest and makes me constantly worry about my heart. Now I have had pretty much every single test in the book including the echo and that have me some short lived relief and I still believe in a problem with my heart. I even ran a whole fricken mile straight through in 8:58 ( which I was really scared of doing) and I still don't believe it's anxiety. So my
Doctor thinks it's anxiety my mom and dad and my friends( who know) so why is it so hard for me to accept??? What always brings me down are all of the symptoms that I have in my chest some are scary to me and I'm always hypersensitive about my body. I just don't get why I can't accept anxiety.
Posted 5/11/2013 8:36 PM (GMT 0)
Jocipher, your sub-conscious mind knows all your fears! This is not your "thinking mind"
so don't expect it to be rational. You can't reason with the sub-conscious, but
you can learn to control the power it has and limit it's ability to make you miserable.

Stop being afraid to die, this is the club the sub-conscious uses to beat our brains out.
"I have not even implied that this is easy, but it can be done", you wont be totally unaffected
just in control. Acceptance seems to be effective accept that one day it will be over, so deal
with it then and only then, once is enough for anyone, refuse to let the monster in the room,
it gets easier over time, once you start to lose this fear the others will seem to fade also.
"Live"

Larry ***
Posted 5/11/2013 9:02 PM (GMT 0)
Mine settles in my stomach and it's terrible. I can't stand that feeling of unease. My stomach even trembles.

Are you afraid of being diagnosed with anxiety because it is a mental illness?
Posted 5/11/2013 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
No I'm not afraid of it because it's much better that having a heart problem to be honest. But my heart got checked out left and right and seems to be fine and that's what everybody tells me. And people do say that keeping busy helps but sometimes I don't physically feel like I can do much because the random symptoms and sensations keep me down.
Posted 5/11/2013 11:48 PM (GMT 0)
It is really hard to believe that something in our minds can affect our body so much!

What other disorder does this after all? If we were to have an organic disease of the physical type...our minds could wrap around that and deal with it. Would it be difficult? Of course...but it would at least be definitive.

This disorder causes us to keep guessing...and until we can accept it...it keeps us in the dark and wondering what might possibly be wrong with us.

It is a tough gig, this limbo!!!

Acceptance takes time. It will happen. The more times that you prove to yourself that you can do things in spite of your fears...like running the mile, it will get better. This time it did not completely take away your doubt and worries...but it has chipped away a bit at the stonghold that the anxiety has on you!

Keep thinking postively and using your coping skills. Things will improve, I promise.:)

S.C.
Posted 5/12/2013 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you so much SC I know it's really hard and sometimes the fears won I admit but I trust in your judgement that I will accept this eventually I just need some encouragement and strength
Posted 5/12/2013 5:42 PM (GMT 0)
So I had a pretty bad scare today. In church I was walking up to receive communion and all of a sudden I had a big palpitation and I got scared and started to sweat on my hands then I felt like I had a smaller one and felt like my jaw was locking up when I was chewing and my legs felt wobbly. And I thought I was going to die right there. That's what I think when I get scares like this but it was very scary and am still a little shooken up by it. When I get back to the pew my heart was racing like mad and my hands were like soaked. That was a pretty scary moment.
Posted 5/12/2013 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
Ill tell you it was not a pretty moment I stood up straight because I didn't want to make a scene but that scared me a lot. I haven't had palpitations much lately but sometimes when I do they are minor and other times they are pretty big and that one was big. I was trying to take some breaths because I had a little bit of a hard time breathing after and I was just scared after that.
Posted 5/12/2013 6:10 PM (GMT 0)
I feel the same way I always feel like its my heart I get light headed back pain chest pain and I can't stop feeling like it is my heart I don't know what to do either
Posted 5/12/2013 6:16 PM (GMT 0)
I'm sorry to hear that! Have you been tested? I got tested left and right and everything came out normal but this palpitation scared me. It was a pretty big one and made me worry immediately.
Posted 5/12/2013 6:16 PM (GMT 0)
I'm sorry to hear that! Have you been tested? I got tested left and right and everything came out normal but this palpitation scared me. It was a pretty big one and made me worry immediately.
Posted 5/12/2013 10:08 PM (GMT 0)
Jocipher, Please understand this, the big shot of Panic is caused by addrenlin, "you do not have to be thinking
of anything", it's initiated by your sub-conscious, They seem like they come from no where, also remember
your sub-conscious knows your every fear. I still feel like it taking over but I have learned to resist,
and they go away .

Larry ***

Post Edited (lgm1942) : 5/12/2013 4:19:56 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/13/2013 1:21 AM (GMT 0)
To be completely honest that is just amazing to think that your mind can do that even when your not telling it to! I was feeling anxiety today when I was at my grandmothers. It was on and off but I just generally felt the anxiety symptoms flowing through me. Idk I guess I feel the comfort when I am at my house.
Posted 5/13/2013 2:23 AM (GMT 0)
Church is a big trigger for me. It is weird...you'd think that would be the last place you'd have anxiety right?

Then I feel guilty for feeling anxious in church, and not being able to focus on the sermon...

I am sure that this was just a random, benign anxiety symptom.

I hope that you are feeling better now.;)

S.C.
Posted 5/13/2013 2:56 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah that's been happening to me too lately. But yeah it was only a one time thing thankfully and I ended up having a pretty good day afterwards because I got to seem family.
Posted 5/14/2013 2:32 AM (GMT 0)
Well today was a pretty good day! In gym I didn't feel like crap a d I actually did some hard workout with very little symptoms:) I really enjoy when I have days like these and only hope and pray for these kind of days more often! It felt good to life those weights and act like a teenager should:)
Posted 5/14/2013 3:11 AM (GMT 0)
Now! Your Alive!

Larry ***
Posted 5/14/2013 3:12 AM (GMT 0)
Great news Joc!!! :) :) ;)

Keep up the good work!

S.C.
Posted 5/14/2013 10:47 PM (GMT 0)
I did not have a very good day today. I was having weird palpitations and I was feeling a little weak and when I got home I randomly looked up heart virus and came up with mayocarditis and I freaked myself out once again:( I'm sorry guys but I just got scarred
Posted 5/14/2013 11:44 PM (GMT 0)
And I was weak I know but I remember last weekend I was watching an old cartoon called Dragon Ball Z and it was this episode where the main character died because of a heart virus and that got drilled into my brain and immediately shot into my mind when I was feeling like crap today and it just ate at me until I finally decided to look it up and scared myself. I'm really sorry guys:( and now that's another thing to add to my mental list of heart issues.
Posted 5/15/2013 12:52 AM (GMT 0)
Jocipher read SC's post Encouragement to the bottom. "I remembered her post about listening to her dr's".

Larry ***
Posted 5/15/2013 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
I know I read it to. I'm sorry I was weak but I really did feel bad today I'm not sure why the sudden switch but it brought me down to the point where I went on the Internet.
Posted 5/15/2013 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
Your not weak, your special, just read the return post's people have sent you, such a gift need's to be
used!

Your Friend

Larry ***
Posted 5/15/2013 1:31 AM (GMT 0)
Well right now I feel I need a friend to talk to about this to make me feel better. I just said some prayers and now feel like I just need someone to talk to right now.
Posted 5/15/2013 3:42 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry I had to go to the store again. Jocipher, I have noticed that several people on here respond very
well to you, your posts seem filled with a sincere desire to help and they feel it in your words. I want you to
think about what I am about to say, I try to be careful when posting I don't want to be called down for
sounding like a Preacher. Read between the lines or e-mail me my address is in my profile. You and I know
that if we stay down on ourselves and become non functional their is only one identity in creation that
would benefit from that. We who suffer from this condition have much more potential than the average
person, something is trying to make us fail at life. We owe it to God not to let that happen. I have a long
drive tomorrow and must get to bed, let Peace inter into your Spirit! "Your Friend"
Larry ***
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