I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.
The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.
Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.
I go into a book store and start having heart palpitations. I get very excited.
Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.
I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.
Anxiety affects everyone differently. I spoke to someone who felt like their heart was beating 1,000 times a minute. With me, it was a dizziness, feeling sick, constant, 24 hours a day.
I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
My heart was beating like an army on the march.
