Posted by Vincent_QC on August 21, 2012, at 19:53:13
Another thread...
Why my chronic anxiety symptoms always occur at the same places in my body? Is it because my anxiety is related to the fear of having a real cardiovascular disease or a heart attack and because of that most of my anxiety symptoms are from my heart with the chest pain, numbness and tingling on the left arm, left hand turning blue and being painfull, orthostatic hypotension, skipped heart beat, dizziness, extreme physical fatigue with low tolerance to physical effort...
Is it possible to turn off those symptoms? Why being so afraid, can it be because I know that I dont have a healthy lifestyle, not active physically cause I fear to have a heart attack, cause I know that I smoke since more than 14 years and know its very bad for the heart...?
How I can change my bad thoughts to positive thoughts and how to stop being afraid to die, I mean everyone will die so I have to face it since I will die and probably not from anxiety...
What to do when you had almost all the cardiovascular tests done by a good Cardiologist and all the tests are perfect and he cant find a problem with your heart? How I cant stop that bad cycle of negatives thouths about having a real heart problem...
I know that my heart is probably ok, I know that I have bad habits and need to do some action to change my lifestyle and have better health habits, I know that but its like my brain cant stop playing always the same old tapes and the stronger will be my cardiovascular symptoms and stronger will be my anxiety and will have more and more symptoms...I look at my left hand and it turn blue and start hurting and then my heart start racing and my left arm feel numb and hurt and then chest pain appear and I start being dizzy and have to sit and take my pulse rate and my blood pressure and I worry and worry and cant stop the rapid negatives thoughts in my head...
Thats so exhausting, I get up in the morning and have already tachycardia and I start being very anxious and tense and my head start hurtingand the same heart symptoms start...its like this all day long, everything in my life turn around my syhmptoms. I now fear gettting up in the morning and also going to bed cause each night I have panic in my bed and insomnia most of the time with nocturne sudation and intestine pain...
Anyway like I wrote in the other thread, I start a new therapy so maybe some peoples here know what im talking about and live the same kind of anxiety and maybe you can help me with the therapyh, what I should learn and try, what kind of therapy I should ask for, exposure therapy fail and leave me in a higher anxiety state and I know that exposure to situations and fears is the key to learn to live a normal life and cope with anxiety but I dont know, maybe I should ask my therapist to teach me new tricks to fight those symptoms?
Well I know I write a lot but I feel better when I do that...and I appreciate when someone else answer to me, just to have some support can help.
Thanks,
Vincent
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