Re: Anxiety triggered by Footballer colapse!!
Originally Posted by
Rossi_h
So watching Erikson collapse on live TV and be given CPR and De fib has got me so shaken and brought all my anxiety straight back! I have a fear of Sudden death whilst playing football etc. But the last 4 years I’ve conquered the fear and played football, what worries me is he will have heart tests probably yearly and it still managed to happen to him. A fit athlete just dropping down like that is very scary and without the quick intervention of the medical team he might not still be with us! I’m going crazy thinking about it and haven’t slept properly for 2/3 days now
Totally understand the spiralling. This would have been me a few years ago..
So, two things..
One - Eriksen went down like a sack of King Edwards, for sure, and it was unnerving to see, but he was brought round very quickly with the aid of a defib machine. Thanks to being alive in 2021 - most sports clubs will have one - along with people who are trained how to use it but there are usually defib machines close by for most people. Ours is a few hundred yards away..
Two - Eriksen, himself, wouldn't have know much about what was happening. As soon as he lost consciousness, it was away with the fairies time. No pain. No comprehension of what everybody else could see..
My point is that the two scenarios are not without their 'positives'. You have a cardiac arrest, you get defibbed and come back to live another day. Or you just go as quickly as turning off a light, and if you have to go (and we all do eventually) there's something to be said for not suffering? It's those around us who experience the trauma - not the one who is on the floor. The perspectives of the observer and the experiencer are completely different..
I suffer from skipped beats all the time and always checking my pulse on my Apple Watch
Not sure what I can do! Any help appreciated x
Ectopic beats is nothing to worry about. I have them a lot - more so when anxiety ramps up - and I know my heart is healthy.
You might want to stop constantly monitoring your heart because that causes anxiety from the moment you think about checking your heart rate and anxiety will release stress hormones which will make your heart race. It's a normal functioning of your body (fight or flight) but it's not nice to have these symptoms all the time, right? So try and help yourself and ditch the monitoring. Your heart is magnificent, and is looking after you..
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