439: Heart Rate Monitoring and Health Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina explores the issue of self-monitoring with health care equipment for persons with anxiety. Anxiety and panic are thought to account for one in five visits to the emergency room and are often mistaken for heart attacks. Gina advises on whether or not persons with anxiety should be using medical self-monitoring devices outside of that prescribed by health care professionals and recommends finding a health care provider you can trust and work with.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk to you |
| 0:30.6 | a little bit about heart rate monitoring and health anxiety or heart fears and health anxiety. Heart, everything, and health anxiety. |
| 0:42.0 | And the way that many people get everything and health anxiety. |
| 0:42.8 | And the way that many people get into this |
| 0:46.5 | is through heart rate monitoring. |
| 0:48.6 | So that's why I put the title as that, |
| 0:51.1 | because many times where we put our attention our anxiety goes. |
| 0:57.5 | So let's get started here and talk a little bit about heart rate, and health anxiety. |
| 1:04.5 | There is a statistic out there that one in every five ER visits can be attributed to anxiety, |
| 1:12.1 | including panic attacks. |
| 1:14.0 | So that would be stress anxiety, panic attacks. |
| 1:17.0 | I actually think that number might be a little bit low, |
| 1:21.2 | but that's what I have in front of me, so that's what I'm going to go with. |
| 1:25.0 | And I want you to know that, so if you are experiencing that, if you have had to find yourself going to the ER or wanting to call someone to take you to the |
| 1:36.2 | ER, calling an ambulance, you are not alone. |
| 1:40.3 | This happens to many people with anxiety and with panic because they are really feeling that this is what's happening at heart attack |
| 1:52.1 | Shortness of breath, heart sensations, tightness in the |
| 1:55.4 | chest, all of these things that anxiety does can cause us to think that there is something organically wrong with our heart and we are needing to have |
| 2:07.3 | medical attention right now. And so this again, this is not unusual, so I don't want you to be hard on yourself. |
| 2:14.2 | People with anxiety, it isn't like you don't have enough going on. |
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