EP 0085 - Heart Anxiety Issues and Interoceptive Exposure

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you are a regular listener of the podcast, odds are that you've had anxiety, worry and fear focused on your heart at least once or twice. This is quite common. Heart-centered anxiety generally involves being afraid of a rapid, strong, or irregular (flutters/palpitations) heartbeat. This is either due to an underlying fear that something is wrong with your heart or will go wrong, or due to the link between a rapid/strong heartbeat and a panic attack. In either case, ...

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0:00.0	Hey dudes and duets Drew here welcome to the anxious truth it's episode 85 of the
0:12.3	podcast I appreciate you stopping by.
0:14.7	Today we are going to talk about heart anxiety. So this is anxiety, fear and worry that is
0:20.5	intensely focused on and centered around your heart,
0:23.7	the function of your heart, your heartbeat,
0:25.6	feeling your heartbeat, flutters and palpitations,
0:28.4	worrying that your heart is going to stop,
0:30.6	worrying that you're going to damage your heart,
0:32.4	worrying that you're going to damage your heart,
0:32.5	worrying that you're going to have a heart attack,
0:34.4	all of those things.
0:35.2	We're going to talk about this for the next 20, 30 minutes.
0:37.1	So if this is an issue for you,
0:39.2	which judging by the response from my Instagram post that prompted this it's a worry for many many
0:45.1	people so it was a worry for you then then this is where you want to be so pull up a
0:49.1	chair grab a cup of
0:53.1	something and let's get into this.
0:52.2	Before I start, of course, I am absolutely obligated to say
0:55.6	I am not a medical doctor or a cardiologist.
0:58.4	And I am always operating for the next 20, 30 minutes
1:02.3	in this podcast episode. I am operating under the next 20-30 minutes in this podcast episode I am
1:03.6	operating under the assumption that your heart is perfectly healthy. You do not
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