Health anxiety crisis

[worried_of_scotland 8]

My health anxiety has brought me back. I know that there isn't really any assurance anyone can give, but just a message to say to people you're not alone with how you feel. 

I've gone through just about all the fears that I see mentioned on here - heart palpitations, skipping beats, impending feelings of doom. This time it is a bit different for me, but of course there is always a new symptom isn't there? 

Stay strong friends, I will try to do the same. 

[PennyPanic 240]

You aren't alone either. HA is terrible. We somehow have to find out way back to normalcy.

[Ironman 55]

I wonder if there is a basic trust issue with anxiety like this. 

[worried_of_scotland 8]

I think it's true that trust is a factor. We overestimate the likelihood of very bad reasons for the normal sensations we feel. It's hard to trust other people's judgement ahead of our own anxious mind.

Even though I can rationalise it, it is still a struggle. 

[Ironman 55]

1 hour ago, worried_of_scotland said:

I think it's true that trust is a factor. We overestimate the likelihood of very bad reasons for the normal sensations we feel. It's hard to trust other people's judgement ahead of our own anxious mind.

Even though I can rationalise it, it is still a struggle. 

We want to believe our anxiety instead of be willing to test it. 

[jonathan123 2339]

Certain words crop up time and again and are the cause of ongoing anxiety. 'Fight' and  'Struggle' being the two most often used. 'Fighting' 'IT' only makes matters worse. You will never rid yourself of anxiety by fighting the symptoms or struggling with them. It's  said by the non suffers 'you must fight this thing, you must not let it get the better of you'. This is not good advice. The more you struggle the more adrenaline you produce the more the anxiety persists. Adrenaline, the fear hormone, is triggered by our inability to ACCEPT what is happening. If we have been checked out and found to have anxiety, then ACCEPT that's what it is.  Passive non resistance is the key. By doing nothing you do everything! There are so many paradoxes in anxiety. By ACCEPTING you calm the anxiety because, in not fighting and struggling you slow or even stop the adrenaline. Our adrenaline glands are so quickly active in anxiety. In so called normal people, whatever that means, anxiety can flare up in the event of a trauma or some fear making event. It soon dies down. With us it does not die down. Unspecified fear causes it to go on. ACCEPTANCE is not easy, far from it, but it can be done given the will.

[Ironman 55]

3 hours ago, jonathan123 said:

Certain words crop up time and again and are the cause of ongoing anxiety. 'Fight' and  'Struggle' being the two most often used. 'Fighting' 'IT' only makes matters worse. You will never rid yourself of anxiety by fighting the symptoms or struggling with them. It's  said by the non suffers 'you must fight this thing, you must not let it get the better of you'. This is not good advice. The more you struggle the more adrenaline you produce the more the anxiety persists. Adrenaline, the fear hormone, is triggered by our inability to ACCEPT what is happening. If we have been checked out and found to have anxiety, then ACCEPT that's what it is.  Passive non resistance is the key. By doing nothing you do everything! There are so many paradoxes in anxiety. By ACCEPTING you calm the anxiety because, in not fighting and struggling you slow or even stop the adrenaline. Our adrenaline glands are so quickly active in anxiety. In so called normal people, whatever that means, anxiety can flare up in the event of a trauma or some fear making event. It soon dies down. With us it does not die down. Unspecified fear causes it to go on. ACCEPTANCE is not easy, far from it, but it can be done given the will.

Yep - work through and let pass.  We make it worse only with our imaginations!  We are creative people :).

[MARC 350]

Over the years I have had some actual health issues and they are no picnic to deal with either.