Passing out?

[Concernedgal]

The emergency room department explained to me that my heart rate was so fast that the blood was not circulating in my brain like it should. I have been on a mission to try to find physical causes for my anxiety but, so far nothing. I've had an ekg done and the er I went to ran test on my heart. I had my hormones checked then i've had my heart checked so far although I have a couple of more test before it is confirmed that's not the problem. Next i'm going to have my metabolic system checked to see if I have something called " metabolic syndrome " but, if not... I may have to except the fact that I have anxiety and depression. Btw. Nice to meet you @Bakanyan

 

[janemariesayed]

@Concernedgal I just had a thought. Could you write down a list of every single thing that causes you anxiety? It may help you to find a pattern. The times that you have panic attacks don't seem to fit in with any particular physical illness. But I thought that if you wrote down a list of things that trigger your panic attacks that you might find what could really be wrong.

It seems that you may be scared of dying. Afraid of death itself. Maybe not consciously but deep down. If you had a list you could go through it to figure out what the connection is.

 

[pwarbi]

Making a list of what makes us anxious is a good idea like @janemariesayed says. In the past I have done that and it has helped me to work out just exactly what was happening, when and why, but sometimes there sin't an easy explanation for it. People can live all their lives care free and then all of a sudden everything gets on top of them and they become stressed and anxious for no apparent reason.

We often say that we need to get to the root cause of our problems, but sometimes, no matter how hard we look, there simply isn't that explanation and it's just a fact of life that we lose our mojo so to speak.

 

[Concernedgal]

Well for 1.. hot days. 2.. . It's always right before I use the restroom . 3..... milk products. 4... working a 10 day stretch without a day off. 5... travel in a car for more than 15 minutes. 6...eating a really heavy meal.7.... if I get too cold. 8... sometimes I get a drowning sensation in the shower. 9.... during arguments. 10... Any weird sensation in my body that can't be explained. 11... the sunshine, it makes me feel as though my vision is blurry, I dnot like not being able to see. That's all I can think of right now. But, what it all boils down to is anxiety over the unpredictable things, things the I can't have total and complete control of.