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: 15w

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: 14w

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

୨ৎ

Date posted: 14w

can ocd make you question your mental health?

i have been diagnosed with OCD & generalized anxiety disorder. for some reason, i’ve been very hyper aware of everything. like the way i talk, the way i see the world, how certain things sound/look/feel, and it’s very distressing. i feel like the hyper awareness makes me afraid of things? like for some reason, my mind attached to cartoons, and i was hyperfocusing on it, and got extremely scared, like scared of the cartoon for no reason? i’ve done this a lot, and i get scared i have psychosis or schizophrenia, or something that makes you afraid of things for no unknown reason. i feel so scared that this is my new normal…. im heartbroken. so many what if’s. did i just ruin my own life?? 💔

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