Thanks for the advice Leon and it’s really good to hear you overcame your anxiety. It gives me hope!
Thanks for your advice anxietyjoe! How did you overcome your anxiety? I’m interested to hear what helped you as it sounds like you have the same trigger. I know that exercise is good for anx but now I feel I can’t even exercise because as soon as my heart starts racing I get triggered and start having a panic attack on top of my heart racing from exercise! It’s ridiculous! It’s so true the self-sustaining loop of adrenaline spikes.
There was a point I kept checking my pulse too but I’ve tried to stop doing that because it just seemed to trigger me every time.
Then I always have the thought what if I don’t check and it’s worryingly high and I should be going to the hospital... I feel like a lot of my anxiety is just maintained by terrible catastrophic thoughts.