But for someone with anxiety, you start to associate certain sensory experiences with the experience of having a panic attack, or at least significant anxiety.

So when you feel that irregular heartbeat heartbeat your anxiety goes,

whoa, hold on, what was that?

Did you feel that?

Wait, it just happened again.

Oh my God, what's wrong with our heart?

Are we having a heart attack?

Are we having a panic attack?

I think at least we're having a panic attack.

Okay, let's just go do the anxiety thing. Go go go go go and then suddenly you know you're having that panic attack.

Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect

and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment.

I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the

episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first.

I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a

substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. All right. Hello.

This. Oh. All right. All Right. Hello Friends of All Varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast episode 216.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.

I make mental health content for real people, just like you.

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