Im SO Tired Of Being Afraid.I Cant Stop Worrying About My Heart?

Question

I have been to two doctors both seems to think that im in good shape.Blood pressure is fine,heart sounds strong and lungs clear.I also have a friend that is a nurse says there seems to be nothing wrong with me.I went to the doctors because I could hear my heartbeat and they said it was a benign condition caused by weight loss.I take meds for depression and see a therapist often,but when I start to feel that all is well fear strikes me again.I have seen so many commericals about heart attack and read so much im like one of those med students that diagnosis everything they read about.Im in my 50's and everywhere you turn there is something about heart attack or stroke.Now every time something doesnt feel right or sound right about my heart I worry and every little thing that could resemble a stroke just terrifies me.I want to get on with my life without worry.. How can I do that? I never realized how fragile we are and have never worried about this before.I cant get it off my mind.

Answer 1

the problem is not your heart, it's your thinking. seek some professional help, you're worth it!

Answer 2

i think you should speak with your doctor about your anxiety. maybe he can give you some tips, some extra reassurance, and possibly some anti anxiety pills to calm you down a little.

worrying about your help, especially as you age is perfectly normal. being obsessive isn't and needs to be treated...

however, you are the only person who TRULY knows your body and maybe there is something that needs to be taken care of now. if you are uneasy then get a third, fouth, and fifth opinion. if you feel that something isn't right then don't let three people talk you out of your gut feeling.

have you always been the type to worry? does your family have a history of heart disease? are you a healthy person?

have you had parents or siblings pass away at an age that you are approaching? all of these type of things could cause you to be fearful and have anxiety.

talk to your doctor, see another cardiologist, and try to stay busy so you don't have too much time to think.

take care,
SD

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hi. It sounds like you have a problem with fear. Your fear may be causing you to stress out about your health. I can understand it because I have felt it. You have a fear of what might or might not happen and it sounds like it's controlling your life. It could also be linked to your depression. You may have a small anxiety about it. What you need to do is think rational about it like you did in your message. You expained that you have been checked out by doctors and everything is okay. You said that you worry and maybe your worrying have caused anxiety for you. Which makes it real to you. So what you need to do is find out how you can deal with this so that you are feeling happy again and not so worried. I think this may be something you can talk to your doctor about the next time you go for therapy or for your apt for your medication. Rule of thumb is that if this fear is ruling your life or causing problems in your life then it needs to be dealt with. You need to find out why you have this fear of a heart condition. Take care of yourself.

Answer 5

You should Meditate! Try Saying one phrase over and over perhaps 20 times, while calm like, "I am Healthy"!
Know that by worrying you are doing more harm than good because you are in a sense causing yourself to have more anxiety that can lead to heart problems.
Just take your meds for depression, go to your therapist but also add meditation and prayer, Exercise daily, get plenty of fresh air and surround yourself by loving people.

Answer 6

The last thing I would like to be here is careless about your condition. I have been through something very similar that often led to heart palpitations. I really needed people to be sincere and honest with me. All medical doctors insisted that I was fine. My wife insisted that I was fine. Nobody wanted to put me on medication. So I had to struggle through the whole dilemma head first. There were times when I was convinced I would die from the terror centered so vividly in my heart.

But, they were right. My heart was more than fine. My terrors were real on one level and not real on another level. I ate well; exercized well and even learned yoga. It was then that I began to study a deeper form of psychology than Freud and behaviorism. I found Jung to be extremely helpful because I started to do art instead of allow myself to be tempted by therapy or medicaton. I battled through the fear on a natural basis and was helped enormously by a book called "Psychic Energy" by Esther Harding. I eventually realized I had to pass through a transformation which required the death of the old self that I had always relied on and the rebirth of a new self that I was unfamiliar with. The terror was not only the uprising from my own unconscious powers which tended to trip my heart and emotions that I mistook for physical problems - simply because they were so all-encompassing - but the source of my anxiety was also outside. I could not yet advance my career, finances, residence and so forth the way I wanted. I felt life was passing me by.

When I experience this now, the fear is still there, but I have learned that my heart is okay and I have trained my mind not to worry about it. So I never seem to get palpitations anymore. I also never lapse on my diet which is clean and simple. I exercize daily and really look forward to these routines.

Try to believe in the strength of your heart. Make sure the medication is not producing any side effects. Be sure to talk to others and listen to other people's struggles, fears and anxieties. Listen with an open, generous, clear mind. This will give you perspective. Examine closely how afraid you are about money, family, career, ambitions, etc. Make sure you are paying attention to your inner being - including dreams. If you have to write them down, do so. If there are things you must let go of now, let them go. You will have to learn what faith is. It is faith that pulls fear up by its bootstraps. When the fear comes on, don't try to run from it. Confront it and try to pay attention to its source and what it is asking you to do - whether action or non-action. Let the heart learn to handle it. Let it get stronger by it. Don't try to escape it. The heart is strong. It is resilient. Terror will reach a peak as the phase climaxes. Then it is capable of turning into its opposite - usually when you least expect it. The opposite of this terror is joy - real joy.

You are not completely alone no matter how it might appear. It's a great irony that some of the best people I ever met in my life I met during the worst phase of terror over my heart. And my heart never let me down. I just thought it would. This was because I was unfamiliar with the sorts of forces the body was capable of producing. If you find a good outlet for your best talents this will help enormously in channelling and transforming this sort of emotional fear. The heart is the muscular center of our emotions and it is probably emotion that you are having the greatest trouble with. So express your emotions. Experience them. Develop them. Let your whole system grow through this. Allow yourself to feel deeply - your issues and also the issues of your fellow humans.

Lots of people empathize and identify with you. So - forward and onward. The obverse side is courage and the degree to which you can suffer fear you can also transform it into courage. The panic is an attempt to flee what you must confront. Confront a little bit at a time. And don't deviate from a good diet and clean water and exercise.

I feel your situation and I wish you a good outcome. I remember well how good people were to me when I was going through the same thing. I will never forget those people: male and female; young and old; all walks of life. Listen to them closely. Many people mean well. The source of that good will is none other than the human heart.

B. Lyons

Answer 7

USE the fear to motivate you to take ACTION. The fear is telling you to ACT. So do everything you can to eat right, exercise, and so on. Let FEAR be your guide. And then you will live a very long time. You will not get on with your life without worry, but you will use the worry to improve your life.

Answer 8

Im nineteen and I have that problem its called anxiety. I feel worried for no reason and my heart starts to pound really fast. For a while I thought it was my heart. usually when you have
panic attack you feel as if your going to have a heart attack or stroke. It is also feels as if Im going to die but its a false alarm. One starts to fear the attack and for that reason you countinue to experience them. Go back to your doctor you can take lexapro its controls anxiety and depression because depression usually follows anxiety.

Answer 9

just eat things with low cholestoral and take a medicine that keeps your heart healthy. It sounds to me that your a hypochondriac.

Answer 10

The more you worry--the more you're going to bring it on. Stop it.