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plateee@piefed.social 3 hours agoDo you have issues with anxiety/panic attacks? Fun fact, panic attacks can manifest physically with nearly identical symptoms to a heart attack!
(This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get things checked out though)
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah - I just knew I was gonna die a few months back, and it was a panic attack. Which is weird because I’ve historically been low-stress. But between work being crazy and the world being what it is right now, things apparently got to me subconsciously.
My chest got tight, my breathing was labored, my arm went numb. It was terrifying.
And thinking you’re having a heart attack doesn’t help with the panic attack. But it was amazing how as soon as the EKG showed normal, everything started feeling better quickly. Just the knowledge that it was panic helped so much.
But you should still go to the ER in those cases, because if you assume it’s a panic attack and dont go, but turn out to be wrong…
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 25 minutes ago
This happened to me too a few years ago, and I’m also quite a calm person, so it caught me by surprise.
It was 6 months or so after becoming a father, and my best guess is that the sleep deprivation was messing with my head. It stopped and I’ve been fine since.