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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Health Anxiety a Knot in My Throat

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Education

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast Shann and Ananga another listener question: "I've been experiencing a knot-like feeling in my throat that you sometimes get when you're really emotional, for example. It worries me that I think my throat will close up and I won't be able to breathe. Can this be related to anxiety? For the notes and resources mentioned in this podcast please see: Health Anxiety: A Lump in the throat and fear of not being able to breathe on AnxietySlayer.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

0:14.6

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

0:19.9

anxiety.

0:29.0

Hello everyone, it's good to be back with you today. Hello, Ananga.

0:30.0

Welcome.

0:31.0

Hi, Shen.

0:32.0

We are coming together with another listener question and looking forward to another Slayer session.

0:39.0

So today's question reads, I've been experiencing hypochondria anxiety for the past three months

0:46.0

that has slowly been getting better. However, I'm still experiencing a few things here and there.

0:51.2

I've been experiencing a not-like feeling in my throat that you sometimes get when you're

0:55.1

really emotional, for example. It worries me that I fear my throat will close up and that I won't

1:00.1

be able to breathe. Can this be related to anxiety? And then the question moves on.

1:06.0

I've noticed that this only happens when I start to really concentrate on this feeling in my throat.

1:11.0

From what I gather about anxiety, it seems to target what you fear most and as

1:15.7

crazy as it sounds, I fear that someone will stop me from breathing. I would really appreciate

1:21.1

an answer and if anyone has experienced this before.

1:26.4

That's a brilliant question.

1:28.0

Thank you so much for sending that in.

1:30.0

This is something that a lot of people experience and definitely can go hand in hand with anxiety.

1:37.0

Personal asking the question is absolutely right.

1:41.0

An anxious mind will key into our fears, the things that we fear most, because

1:46.2

we're focused on them. They're there rumbling in our mind. And it's almost as if our own mind haunts us.

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