Awful symptoms, can't actually believe it's only anxiety, help

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I know I've posted before but I am really freaked out. I've been to hospital multiple times and they don't find anything wrong with me.

I've been having trouble breathing. If I don't have shortness of breath, it feels like I'm not breathing even if I am. I also have to force myself to breathe at times. I get random sensations like if my heart is stopping, it will be some weird rush feeling in my chest then my head feels weird and it feels like I'm going limp and I have to snap out of it. I'm having trouble swallowing as well. I keep feeling like I'm going limp or going to collapse. It feels like I have no strength. And it'll feel like I'm not moving or something when I am like if all my nerves aren't working properly or my brain isn't processing it all. Then randomly everything will seem like it's getting brighter light wise. It's terrifying me. I feel like I'm dying I feel like my body is shutting down. Please help me and reassure me.

I've gotten everything tested that the hospital can think of and they keep putting it off as anxiety. Also acid reflux was diagnosed along with it, but I've been on medicine for it and it hasn't been helping. I fear so much that it's something else that they're not catching. I don't want to die. Help.

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    Hi Connor I get all this and more. I have the weirdest feelings in my head and body all the time. Some I cant even explain because I just dont know how. I have been obsessed with my heart too and it feels funny to the point that I think its just going to stop beating and it scares the  hell out of me. I feel like I am in a dream or a movie all the time and its like I either live in the past or the future and never in the here and now. I have become so detached from the rest of the outside world that I feel like im in one dimension and everyone else is in another so much that i have to actually force myself to talk to anyone just to prove I can be seen. Its such a hard feeling to describe. Its very scary at times too because i think im going to somewhere in my mind and not come back and that is my biggest fear. I also have acid reflux and it burns from my chest all the way up into my mouth so bad that i have trouble breathing. Its all anxiety and its hard to believe that the mind can do such weird and out there things to the body. My psychologist said that I have these detach feelings because I am shutting my mind out so i dont get hurt. Past trauma is a big issue when it comes to anxiety and also vitamin D and B12 deficiencies. I hope i have helped reassure you a little bit but I know sometimes it doesnt help. If you ever want to talk I am here . I know what you are going through and its good to know  other who are. Take care.
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    I literally feel all of that too... I went to e.r. multiple times and xrays, ekg, and blood work came back normal. I've been to the hospital so much that they think I'm crazy... today I have been getting sharp chest pains that only last for like a second at a time, sometimes my face feels weird, i feel weak at times too. They always say it must be anxiety

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    How often do u feel short of breath breath I feel it all day and all night it's constant I yawn and I gasp to fully expand my lungs do u experience the same feeling? Describe your shortness of breath

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    This reply is to all of you. It really sounds like severe health anxiety because i used to have some of your symptoms as well. Now i go to a cbt and take klonopin and it's gone

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    You are experiencing Anxiety 101.  In fact, most people on here have the same symptoms.  Our bodies are made  to recognize danger and either fight it or flight (run to the hospital).  If you are filling your head with OMG I caan't breath, then your body is going to react to it.  You will breath more shallow, causing tightness in your chest, making your self become dizzy, then eventually extremities will feel week, and on and on. Until your body can't stay tense that long, and then you feel wiped out. 

    You are doing this to yourself by telling yourself it is a heart attack, or  I think I am going to die, I am shaking, I am going to pass out, and on and on.

    None of that is going to happen.  You are not having a heart attack.  You will not just stop breathing.  You have control over this.

    You have to commit to listen to your thoughts and recognize how stupid, or how scary, and mostly how untrue they are.  Once you do that, then you can change your thought pattern.  Practice telling yourself you are heaalthy, you are strong, you are confident.  You can handle anything that comes your way.  When a negative thought comes your way, just say, not today.  For example you wake up and jump out of bed.  Oh no, I feel dizzy, then you start breathing faster, now you started the anxiety ball rolling.  Now you tense up, because yoou are not breathing fully, you get more dizzy, you are telling yourself oh no  it is happening again and boom an anxiety attack.  The good new is they do not last and no one has ever died from an anxiety attack.

    Now lets play the scene over again.  You wake up and jump out of bed, you feel dizzy.  This time you tell yourself yes, I feel dizzy because I got up to fast.  I will sit for a second, then go on with my day.  My body is working fine, I am feeling great.  This is my day and I own it.  I am going to enjoy it.  And go on with your day.  Thoughts may come, but you can choose to stop them, say no, not now.  Not today. 

     

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