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Anxiety issues!!!!
Hi, I'm a sixteen year old girl, around 98 pounds, no health issues. I have severe health anxiety and depression problems. I go through left arm pain sometimes, and it scares the crap out of me! I always think its because of a heart attack. I'm having no chest pain, very light arm pain. It comes and goes. No shortness of breath, no sweating, no "sense of doom" . My shoulder and arm just ache for a minute then goes away after I stop thinking about it. Also goes away after I sleep. Do you think there's a reason to worry, or should I continue to ignore it? (I have been to the doctor and she said my heart sounded fine and I have normal blood pressure)
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I had that experience one period of my life. Exactly the same as you mentioned. I was seeing a Chinese trained American naturopath/acupuncturist.
When a went to her with these symptoms and she checked me out, the first thing she asked was, "Okay, tell me whats going on in your private life because this kind of pain is caused by extreme stress."
It is not related to having a heart attack but mental and emotional stress can eventually lead to cauMy guess is you shouldn't be with the current boysing a real physical illness or disease.
You're young so you're not at that point yet. Best thing to do is get counseling for and medication for your depression. Your healthy anxiety issues are obviously caused by your mind dwelling on the topic. The thing is to stop these negative thoughts as they appear, negative thinking can be stopped. However in light of the fact you also have depression, it may be very difficult to find any success in stopping these thoughts and replacing them with positive ones just by sheer effort of willpower and concentration. It also takes lots of time and focus and dedication to pulling it off.
What may be easier is to see a hypnotherapist for this. These fears and anxieties are generated by your sub conscious mind and hypnotherapy goes straight to dealing with the subconscious and replacing the negative thought process, or desires or addictions with the wanted one.
Your subconscious is where all your emotions and feelings are stored, even the good ones like joy and happiness. But fears, anger, sadness also come from there. There is such a thing as having a healthy fear about something which causes you to take care to not be reckless and endanger yourself. But a fear can also grow out of control and be all consuming as yours is worried more than you should be about your health.
Talk to the parent about getting some professional care if you are not currently getting any. If you're on medication and its not helping, you need to see Dr. to try a different one.
Good luck dear.
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Well I'm no doctor and most people on this site are not so we can't really give you a straight and direct answer.
Are you on medication for anxiety and depression? If not, get on that and see what happens.
If you are, then you should go see a doctor again and tell them about your arms pain. They should give you something to help for that.
Because honestly, most pain is something to worry about. It's obviously not a normal scratch and this happens often so it's best to go back and seek help to get rid of this pain.
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When you're anxious and depressed, you can become hypersensitive so you notice every little ache or pain. Anxiety can actually cause cchronic pain. I think the only way for you to get rid of your pain is to overcome your anxiety. Start to notice your triggers and figure out why you are so anxious because it's probably something deeper that is bothering you. Talking to the doctor about your anxiety and depression instead of your pain might help.
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