Vixen5
28-09-14, 00:25
For about the past 2 weeks I've been doing really well with my health anxiety. There's been the odd moment when I've let thoughts and worries slip in, but for the most part I've been doing good.
Tonight however, I feel like I've taken 2 steps backwards. I've been lay awake for an hour, concentrating on every twinge, every time my chest tightens I'm worried that it's a heart attack, I can hear my heart beat thudding on the pillow. Then my arm starts to ache and I worry it might not be anxiety at all but my bodies way of telling me something is really wrong.
So I've fallen back in to the habit of self checking my pulse rate every 5 minutes.
Does anyone else find its much worse at night? I know logically it's because it's a time when we try to "relax" and there's nothing to take my mind off my anxiety, but I sometimes don't have any symptoms at all during the day, and that tends to be when I'm most stressed (although I don't feel particularly stressed over anything other than my health)
I guess I just want reassurance (even though I'm trying not to ask people for it!), that this can all be put down to health anxiety?!
Tonight however, I feel like I've taken 2 steps backwards. I've been lay awake for an hour, concentrating on every twinge, every time my chest tightens I'm worried that it's a heart attack, I can hear my heart beat thudding on the pillow. Then my arm starts to ache and I worry it might not be anxiety at all but my bodies way of telling me something is really wrong.
So I've fallen back in to the habit of self checking my pulse rate every 5 minutes.
Does anyone else find its much worse at night? I know logically it's because it's a time when we try to "relax" and there's nothing to take my mind off my anxiety, but I sometimes don't have any symptoms at all during the day, and that tends to be when I'm most stressed (although I don't feel particularly stressed over anything other than my health)
I guess I just want reassurance (even though I'm trying not to ask people for it!), that this can all be put down to health anxiety?!