damianjmcgrath
24-10-16, 09:44
I'm doing pretty well with my anxieties recently, started another individual session of CBT, and the new counsellor seems pretty cool and has given some good advice.
However, the panic feelings sneak up every now and then, and one of those triggers is reading about other people. I was on Reddit earlier in their anxiety forum and someone posted that they were 39, had anxiety for 22 years, no family history, no pre-existing conditions, no warning signs except anxiety-induced chest pains, loads of previous EKGs that were fine, etc, and then had a heart attack one morning.
Reading things like that freak me out and really put me back 2 steps. I don't even mean to read them, but I read the first few lines thinking it's an anxiety story and maybe I'll get some advice from it, and I'm halfway through before I realise and then I have to read on!
I get the random chest pains, the pounding heart beats, pins and needles very quickly in arms and hands, the slight feeling of dizziness or imbalance, and I'm out of breath while walking and talking very easily. I had put all that down to anxiety and was kind of coping with it, but reading stories makes me think that maybe it is a real problem, and that gets me stuck in the loop again.
How do people cope with stories like that, because it kind of removes all of my internal rationalisations, about "I'm too young", "I've been checked", etc.
However, the panic feelings sneak up every now and then, and one of those triggers is reading about other people. I was on Reddit earlier in their anxiety forum and someone posted that they were 39, had anxiety for 22 years, no family history, no pre-existing conditions, no warning signs except anxiety-induced chest pains, loads of previous EKGs that were fine, etc, and then had a heart attack one morning.
Reading things like that freak me out and really put me back 2 steps. I don't even mean to read them, but I read the first few lines thinking it's an anxiety story and maybe I'll get some advice from it, and I'm halfway through before I realise and then I have to read on!
I get the random chest pains, the pounding heart beats, pins and needles very quickly in arms and hands, the slight feeling of dizziness or imbalance, and I'm out of breath while walking and talking very easily. I had put all that down to anxiety and was kind of coping with it, but reading stories makes me think that maybe it is a real problem, and that gets me stuck in the loop again.
How do people cope with stories like that, because it kind of removes all of my internal rationalisations, about "I'm too young", "I've been checked", etc.