Hi all!
I don't normally join these type of things but reading people who have a similar experience helps me so I thought I would give it go.
I'm 18 years old and I've had anxiety for about 7 months now (I know it's only a short period of time) and it all started when I had my first panic attack and thought I was having a heart attack, for the next week I suffered chest pain so I went to the doctor it turned out everything was fine, yet I still couldn't or should I say can't shake the feeling that im going to or do have heart problems!
I was referred to CBT which does help but when the symptoms change (for example my left arm used to ache so CBT helped me to come to terms with it and accept its just anxiety but then it would change to slight chest pain which never lasted) and now it's changed again to fast heart rate and heart palpitations and each time it always scares me thinking something is seriously wrong and what frustrates me more is that when I accept one symptom it changes and it all starts again, does anyone else have this problem? And can these symptoms happen for seemingly no reason? And does anyone know a way to just turn the thoughts off? I'm sorry for the long list of questions I just really need advice,
Thanks for reading:)