woke up w heart palpitations today and got some chest pain during the day. my brain aimed straight towards the idea that it was a heart attack (im 15 and perfectly healthy, so that shouldnt happen i think?) i also happened to get a cheap tarot reading today saying i'll die soon so uh yeah that doesnt help much ! my heart is still POUNDING but its been like an hour and a half so i think (and hope) it's just anxiety and my ocd being annoying i dont know if heart attack ocd is a real thing (maybe its connected to health ocd? because i suffer from that one) but uh yeah it wasnt cool, my brain wont leave me alone now

zee

Date posted: 3y

hi :) i have the same exact worries. i actaully get heart palpitations and chest pain when i’m very anxious. sometimes they’ll even come on out of the blue and then the cycle starts from there. i try to remeber that my heart is healthy, and palpitations are actually quite normal (eveyone experiences them whether they feel them or not!) i think the fear of having a heart attack is in the subtype of health anxiety/ocd which becomes an obsession. it’s so hard to break. i have to wear my watch that can tell me my heart rate at all times otherwise i start to really lose it. it’s a compulsion directly related to the obsession and i’m working with my therapist to decouple them. it feels almost impossible most of the time, but i’m still trying. i hear you and you are valid. 💜

FaithSheagren

Date posted: 25w

Health ocd is really bad today

Hi everyone. I take hydroxyzine 50 mg every night for anxiety for about five months. I’ve been experiencing at least one heart palpitation a day so of course I went down my googling spiral and saw people say it gave them cardiac arrest? I’m only 19 but I’m so so scared. Please someone help me.

Anonymous

Date posted: 24w

Chest pain

I just had a really awful chest pain that felt like my chest was exploding and im really terrified. I feel like maybe it was a heart attack but idk. I've had many ekgs and a chest x ray and they don't find anything wrong with me. Idk what this means anymore im so sick of being scared that ill die. Can anyone relate at all? It comes out of nowhere

Draykewampler

Date posted: 22w

fear of death and ocd

so i have ocd but this is the main theme ive been dealing with for the last few months, im obsessed with my mortality and i feel trapped by the reality of death. i dont really believe in an afterlife which makes it scarier, not that i dont wanna my brain literally just wont let me. but i have daily panic attacks thinking about death all day, its honestly the toughest thing ive ever dealt with. does anybody have any tips on how they manage this if they have ever dealt with it? not looking for reassurance, just some non compulsive ways to kind of lessen the grip of the fear.

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