Lemme start off by telling you that I'm a 20 year old female living in South Asia. I have been living with anxiety for 6 years now. Though it's not been digonised but when I had frequently gone to Chest Specialists and ENT doc regarding my lump in the throat feeling they often told me it was jus anxiety. Back in 2012 I also felt sensations like depersonalizations and breathing difficulties. But from past few weeks I have been experiencing some weird symptoms. To name some of them I am feeling arm muscle weakness like achy palms and wrists that come and go.(Though it could be due to my heavy usage of cellphone) Also I am experiencing the sensation we get in our chest when we are scared often. Bloating in stomach and throat fullness and choking sensation sometimes. But above all I;m all the time thinking that I'm experiencing heart attack symptoms. I search for my symptoms 100 times a day and check my pulse again and again, I also feel some discomfort in the chest area (rather more behind the left breast). When I read online that women's typical heart attack symptoms are the symptoms I;m experiencing it makes me anxious beyong measure. I get nervous.
I live in a Hostel and due to financial conditions I'll be not able to go to a GP anytime soon. So I am looking forward for any advise or reasurance that I'll be ok.I will be highly obliged for your help.
P.S. English is not my first language. Please ignore the grammatical errors.
Hi hun it's just anxiety it's a nasty thing to experience Im stil suffering now take deep breaths and try calming music and try to distract yourself hope this helps xx
I always tell myself if it is a heart attack, let me have it right now. And then let the feelings of panic wash over me. Sometimes it takes two times. But when you let it happen the panic. it happens and leaves.
As you know anxiety starts with a thought like you bend down to pick up a pencil and when you sit up you are dizzy. To someone without the disorder they feel the dizzy and go on with their day. But anxiety disorde3r people, we take that feeling of dizzy and hold on to it and analyze, examine it up and down etc. Why am I dizzy. I think I am going to faint. The room is spinning. As we are telling ourselves this stuff, we are breathing shallow...which is making the dizziness be prolonged. Now we have to lay down and our heart races and boom anxiety attack.
So we all know what anxiety is and what it feels like. We all need to learn ways or relearn them in my case to handle them. Here are some ways:
1. Accept it. I have anxiety. I will let it come and watch it leave. I will let it enter my body and watch it go through me .
2. I will pick find four things and count them. (floor tiles, people with black hair, light bulbs, etc.) then three things i can touch. (I feel the back of the chair , it is soft and smooth, I feel the desk it is hard and cool, I feel this cup of coffee it is hot to the touch. Then hear two things. O hear the traffic outside. I hear Millie's cackle. Then smell something. Your perfume on your wrist. Then finally taste something. Coffee, a candy, gum, etc. By doing this you are using all your senses.
Hope it helps. lol it just helped me.
Thank you so much for replying back and comforting me.. I really hope that it's jus anxiety and nothing serious .
Jus going with some breathing exercises for now and hoping for best!
Well thank you so much reading this really slowed my anxious negative thoughts. I really hope that it's just anxiety and nothing serious like heart disease which I always feel like I'm having.
I will try to practice all the above things you advised.
You're appreciated beyond measure.