Re: Why do I give in? Why do I believe Dr Google will ever help me?
Originally Posted by
ScaredCaz
Still stuck in their nightmare so me being a idiot earlier thought I would google and hope to see anxiety or health anxiety as a cause for a symptom
I had googled feeling of impending doom and got an article about how a feeling something bad is going to happen is sometimes a sign of an impending heart stroke or blood clot
Problem is in the wording...
I just typed in 'Feeling of impending doom AND ANXIETY' and the first few returns were anxiety disorder - which is what you need to be reading.
Google can be very helpful in this way, but your negative bias (and raging HA) will have you homing in on anything that feeds it - so you will inevitably see something like 'feeling of impending doom - heart attack'. BOOM. HA is nommining away like a good un!
For me, I know that I get a profound sense of doom prior to a panic attack (mostly nocturnal with me) and it is a horrible sensation which I have had more times than I can remember...
The first time it happened, I woke up in the early hours with this awful feeling that something terrible was going to happen, then my heart started racing and all sorts of horrid symptoms. I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack and I crawled into my son's bedroom so that I could see him before I carked it. In hindsight, that probably wouldn't have happened had I been having an actual heart attack...
Google must be used responsibly (lol) or not at all.
Let me explain this sensation to you and why it happens...
It's caused by stress because being stressed releases stress hormones into the body and they target specific parts in order to assist fight or flight - E.G the digestive system gets a BIG hit because it needs to purge urine, poo etc in order to be as unhindered as possible to run like buggery or to stay and fight. Problem is that the brain doesn't know the difference between an axe murderer coming at you or you lying in bed fretting about work or whatever - it will respond the same way. Stress hormones also target the amygdala - which is the area in the brain where fear originates from. The amygdala basically goes on high alert - which is what it is meant to do in order to keep us alive.
Panic attacks that happen 'out of the blue' like with my nocturnal ones - are where this sensation is the most overwhelming because there appears to be no reason for it..
Dealing with this symptom is the same as any other panic attack symptom - you have to calm the body down by deep breathing and then burning off the stress hormones by moving about - and once the body has calmed down - this sensation will subside.
Last edited by NoraB; 03-12-20 at 08:54.
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