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I am a 53 year old female, surgical menopause and have anxiety and panic attacks daily. I am also in fear of something being wrong with my heart. I've have all kinds of test, blood work, ekgs, echocardiogram and recently I had a cardiolite stress test and all was normal. Why can't I accept this? So stressed
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jan34534 tamih2
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Why do you fear something is wrong with your heart? Are you having symptoms? Racing heart? Pounding? If so, these are very common symptoms of anxiety. They cannot hurt you when they're related to anxiety.
i'm actually older than you LOL and I've been anxiety since grade school but it wasn't until my 20s that I had about 10 symptoms all at once and I was terrified! What happens is when we have overwhelming anxiety there's a point where our body lets us know that it's just too much. That's what happen with me. So we need to listen to what our body is trying to tell us. It's not about having some horrible condition, it's about being the one in control
and managing the anxiety so you don't get these negative thoughts and then fear and panic.
for instance, if somebody is having chest pain they might think they're having a heart attack. Sure it's possible but there are other things that can cause chest pain such as indigestion, gas, anxiety, and even back issues. We jump to the worst case scenario thinking because that's what anxiety does.
you need to except the fact that your test came out normal. Something would've shown up if you had a problem.
you have made a choice that you are going to believe something is wrong with your heart. This will actually create more sometimes because you're convincing yourself something is wrong. You need to turn this around or believe me the rest of your life will be anxiety, fear, panic controlling you! And all along most likely you will be a very healthy person.
don't do what I did which was a waste 20 years of my life worrying about every little thing. I can't get back any of those days and I could've been enjoying myself.
fear is worry about the future which doesn't even exist yet, it's just a concept. So what if thinking it's just a waste of time and it's not based on fact or reality.
people get all kinds of aches and pains but the vast majority of them are not serious .
if you want to read a really good book that shows you how to get out of this mindset, pick up Mindfulness. This is a concept that is taught all around the world and it works! It'll help you regain your peace of mind and shows you how to eliminate negative thinking . It's a white book with a ball of string on the cover
relax, don't take life too seriously, don't forget to smile and laugh, treat yourself well and be a fighter for yourself! Most things have a way of working out very well. And most of the things that we worry about never happen. 🌸🌸🌸
moira43918 jan34534
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From reading this forum u have suffered for a long time. It is so easy to say to someone ur fine, tests are fine, but the reality is, for me, my mind and body have been in conflict for years. It's not just as easy as to say these physical symptoms won't hurt. The brain is telling u they will there is something wrong. Today i was sitting in the hosp waiting for an ecg. I'm 46 and i was the youngest one there. I'm thinking to myself what the f**k r u doing here there is nothing physically wrong with u. The guy next to me was gasping for breath but that didn't help me. The mind is such a powerful thing and convinces u that u r suffering ur worst fears whether it's ur heart, cancer, whatever. After I got the ecg and the guy said it looks ok i felt better for a while, the tight chest has gone, back to work within an hour it raised it's head again. No matter how many test u get the brain has to be reprogammed
jen48700 tamih2
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It sounds like a little bit of OCD. I too have a little bit of obsessive thoughts. Mine is more Pure-O intrusive thoughts about human existence. I'm a spiritual person but for some reason the past month I haven't been able to stop thinking about how the world works that I give myself panic attacks and eventually had to be put on sertraline(16days now).
I once heard a story about woman that was convinced she was pregnant and all the tests came back negative and the doctors kept telling her she wasn't pregnant but because she was so focused on it, her body started acting like it was and she went into labor and nothing came out. It's kind of scary how powerful our minds are. I kept hearing that we need to constantly replace our negative thoughts with positive thoughts. You'll continue to go back and forth thinking "I'm depressed" " that's not true, I feel great" " I'm depressed" " that's not true, I feel great"... and so on, but eventually it will help. Always follow a negative thought with a positive.
carole66077 tamih2
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