When my heart races I always want to rush to hospital

[star68]

Hi, Does anybody relates to that? I am trying to figure out why I behave like this and would like to know if any of you had the same experience.

I had anxiety since I was 6 years old. My psychologist is a result of witnessing my mum's uncle dying at home when I was 5 years old. We were all sitting around his bed, I was close to him, my mum and grandma were crying and my mum told me that I kept saying to him "Please don't die, wake up!!" I remember this event pretty well. Soon after that I develop anxiety, my mum didn't know much about it, those days not many people knew, they put it down to nerves. Every time I had an episode happened to be at night time, and my mum instead of calming me down she always wanted to rush me to the doctor's.

I was thinking that maybe because of that I always want to rush to A&E. How did your mum reacted to your anxiety, did she calm you down or did she panic? Thank you for reading my post.

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Hi Star68, sorry about your uncle. It is very important not to expose children to traumatizing events at such a young age, sorry you went through such an awful experience at such a young age. I completely understand you. I was doing this myself a few months back when I started getting rapid heart beats. It took a lot to stop myself from doing this after so many check ups that came up completely fine. I do believe that you are going to the emergency room for reassurance when you feel these symptoms I know that's why I was doing it after the first couple times.