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> "I have been in wrong terms with my neighbors for years, and now just thinking they are next door is hurting my chest and making me hard to breathe"... Not a
by SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
> "I have been in wrong terms with my neighbors for years, and now just thinking they are next door is hurting my chest and making me hard to breathe"...
Not at all. Anxiety is hearing the boss music in a video game and not seeing any enemies. I'll often find myself so tense I'm holding my breath with no ability to rationalize why I'm in that state. It's a real bastard.
- henearkr 7y agoYou're right. So (I agree with you but from here I'm trying to think about some path to search an explanation) maybe could it be explained by some long-term learning of the body-mind connection under repeated stress situations (like being in a crowd while being self-conscious), and then it repeats itself without the obvious stimulus? What I resent, actually, is when physicians are presented with a package of somatic symptoms and sympathetic/parasympathetic symptoms, and readily discard the somatic part in order to jump to the "panic attack" conclusion.