- Username
- McSteezzyy
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have this fear too. I’m constantly monitoring my symptoms by testing my heart rate and blood pressure. The fact that I get panic attacks makes it a lot worse. Exposures definitely help. Some of the exposures I’ve done include reading about heart attacks, reading stories about non fatal heart attacks, reading stories about fatal heart attacks, writing “I might have a heart attack,” doing activities that make my heart race without a heart monitor on (running up the stairs, etc. ), watching videos of heart attacks, reading the symptoms of heart attacks, telling people I might have a heart attack, etc. Hope this helped
ERP!!
@Hlr is absolutely right. I suffer from this fear as well, and the only thing that has helped me calm it down quite a lot (mind you, this was probably one of my biggest obsessions) is exposure. Reading heart attack stories / news on cardiovascular disease and try not to resist the anxiety that comes up, as well as watching videos of people having heart attacks and suddenly dying (yes, it was hard as HELL!). It paid off in the end. I’m not over it 100%, but I must say, it’s way better than before.
Thank you for the advice
The past two days I've been spiraling with fearing that I'm going to have a heart attack. I (23 years old) read about the Ms teen universe Lotte who died from one and she was only 19. I've been diagnosed with GERD so whenever my chest gets tight I immediately have an anxiety attack. I'm not sure how to get myself to not think I'm dying every other hour.
Does anyone else feel their pulse, worry about the heart rate. Constantly worry about feeling bad? I have anxiety now and can feel it and it feels bad! I just wanna cry. Everyday is a struggle.
I had an intense discomfort in my upper abdomen/lower chest (couldn’t really tell) for most of the day, and I have spent hours thinking I’m going to have a heart attack (despite being a decently healthy 18 yo) because of my moderate maybe chest pain combined with back/neck soreness and a headache (which I think was caused by the stress). I took some antiacids + neutralizers and the pain mostly went away, but everytime my head hurts or I breathe in too deep and feel a crook in my chest I immediately jump to heart attack. I’m scared to fall asleep because I think I’ll die in my sleep. I might go waste money at urgent care just because I need to hear from a professional that it’ll be okay. This similar feeling happened 3 weeks when I thought I had a brain aneurysm, I feel so scared
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