Fluff YOU anxiety

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Anyone else here utterly sick of fucking anxiety and the havoc it causes in daily life???

Took myself to A&e yesterday convinced I was having a heart attack..... turns out my first panic attack

Naturally, due to my beloved anxiety, I have spent the day wondering if I am the laughing stock of said hospital, if I will loose my job and kids for being so utterly irrational and causing a scene, wondering if my healthy tests where inaccurate or someone elses and I did indeed have a heart attack.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, FUCK YOU ANXIETY

Never mind wasting their time. One minute I was cooking a roast chicken dinner, next I had every bloody sign and symptom of a heart attack. Queue tears and absolute utter panic. I hate myself

Please don't hate yourself. Would you hate yourself if you had one leg because of an accident that wasn't your fault? I bet you wouldn't.

I get it because anxiety controls my life and I hate myself for it.

I promise you no one in a hospital is judging you for having a panic attack and if they are they're in the wrong job.

I wish I could think of something really comforting to say but all I can say is you're not alone x

Unmumsnetty hug. I did this, when I called an ambulance as I thought I was having a stroke. No, turns out it was a panic attack. After the ambulance and paramedic had been Never had that before, where all systems go haywire. I think, but have no evidence, that it might even be like a silent migraine? Where the brain just goes into some kind of storm, its quite frightening. Please don't be embarrased or think you were a trouble.

It's really very common for panic attacks to be mistaken for heart attacks.

Please stop being so mean to yourself, you don't deserve that

Don't be so hard on yourself. My DH though I was having a heart attack when I got a bad panic attack in a public place. It's shit but the hospital will have seen it before

It's shit isn't it? My life has been dominated by a continuous feeling of dread. Every time I accept that the weight of how much it has dominated feels overwhelming...but that is the reality. Don't worry about the trip, it's good to get checked out as it could have been a heart attack, and your mind was convinced it was so that's valid in itself.
You're absolutely not alone, really and truly...it's just that we have a condition that tells us not to show how scared we are to anyone so it makes it very difficult to connect with anyone else and offer or receive support!

Oh, and I just wanted to say 'Fuck YOU anxiety' as I felt like it needed to be said.

You're not the first or the last to mistake panic attack for heart attack. Don't feel embarrassed. It does really feel like you're about to die, doesn't it?! I too have had ambulance because of a panic attack... It really sucks. Might need to start with some light antidepresants. Keep telling yourself that u had tests done and physically you are healthy!

i'm with you here 100% OP, i spend 11 months last year with serious ear, balance tinnitus problems. I had 2 CT scans and an MRI scan, they found nothing, turns out it was my f###ing anxiety causing it all the time. I thought i was dealing with it really well but no, it beat me once again. just had another tiny trigger that has spiralled me back to hell. It's your worst enemy and it's very powerful. I feel your frustration. Let's beat this bastard as best we can.