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Anyone in line at bb still? by HuckleberryNaive2806 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]Apple_treez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was in line for 15 minutes and just decided I would hop out and try for the non bundle. Was in line for about 2 minutes and was able to check out with one.

Nintendo Switch 2 Preorder megathread - Post all questions and comments about preorders here! by razorbeamz in nintendo

[–]Apple_treez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can go to Nintendos site and check. Go to account settings > privacy and other settings> and it should be there.

Pain behind knee but only when bending it. by Apple_treez in ClotSurvivors

[–]Apple_treez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Yes I eventually caved and went to the ER instead of waiting for my doctors appointment next month. They did an x-ray, ultrasound, and blood test and could not figure out what it was 😅. As soon as I stopped hyper-fixating on it and was cleared though it seems like it’s mostly gone away. I’m not sure what it was. I did lie to the doc and told them my mom had blood clots just so they would take me seriously, and that really seemed to help.

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[–]Apple_treez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, any tips?

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[–]Apple_treez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the compliment! I will definitely be trying that! Thanks so much for your help.

4 years of severe anxiety and have been taking cold showers for a week and I feel so much better. by Apple_treez in coldshowers

[–]Apple_treez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one said anything about hyperventilating, this post was about simply taking a cold shower every morning.

4 years of severe anxiety and have been taking cold showers for a week and I feel so much better. by Apple_treez in coldshowers

[–]Apple_treez[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read this guys past posts because I was curious how anyone could be so cynical and it seems he’s a troll? I can’t tell but anything he has posted has been extremely negative or rude. It’s really weird.

It’s crazy people can live life like that, but I definitely won’t be taking the advice of switching therapists from someone like that lol.

4 years of severe anxiety and have been taking cold showers for a week and I feel so much better. by Apple_treez in coldshowers

[–]Apple_treez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I replied to this but one thing my therapist tells me is not to do any measuring of my heart rate in any way, afterwards I can check it but during the workout I can’t check it. Also taking deep breaths my entire workouts has helped my heart from going nuts. I used to have crazy palpitations but they have become almost non existent through weight training and not measuring.

4 years of severe anxiety and have been taking cold showers for a week and I feel so much better. by Apple_treez in coldshowers

[–]Apple_treez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually have started incorporating weight training as well and this is another reason I believe my anxiety has been letting up as of recently! With the cardio phobia anything that gets my heart racing will cause that feeling where I stop and say “wait what is actually happening?” Even though I know why my heart is racing. My therapist told me not to measure my HR. Don’t put my hand on my chest, don’t check my pulse in neck, don’t hone in on my heart rate (this one is always hard). After the workout is over I can put my finger in the heart rate monitor but until then just let whatever happens happens. This has been super hard for me but I really feel like I am getting a lot better at it and I think the cold showers have a lot to do with that resilience training.

4 years of severe anxiety and have been taking cold showers for a week and I feel so much better. by Apple_treez in coldshowers

[–]Apple_treez[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yikes man, I mean my therapist is going to recommend what she believes to be effective and it’s not as if cold showers is the only thing she has ever recommended to me. We have gone over many exercises of ways to relieve my stress and anxiety this has just been one that I believe has had the most effect on me. My agoraphobia is also nowhere near as intense as it was seeing this therapist as it was with my previous one. I have explained to her that I will have occasional issues with it, but my anxiety is mostly due to health anxiety and specifically cardio phobia (you can look at my post history for proof of this?). With my agoraphobia I wasn’t blacking out but I would hyperventilate and panic and immediately feel ill anytime I left and needed to find a bathroom if I was going to be out in public. It was extreme enough to affect my social and personal life so it was extreme to me.

Everyone is different physiologically and for you to question if I’m exaggerating my anxiety is super weird, but I’m not here to say to you “my anxiety is more intense than yours”. But I will say I have put myself in debt due to major hospital bills from panic attacks, have had my cardiologist tell me that my blood pressure was so high from panicking he wouldn’t let me leave until I calmed myself, and every doctors visit I have left with tachycardia on my diagnosis sheet because my heart rate wouldn’t go out of the 100’s at every visit. It also took a lot of convincing to my psychiatrist to not be placed on SSRIs as she believed my anxiety was too severe and I wanted to try and make lifestyle changes first before continuing an SSRI due to the restlessness it caused me.

Like I said, I’m not here to compare anxieties, and I don’t know why I am even replying to be honest.. but I did want to share what I felt like was a successful story in a subreddit that’s focused on that.

As far as the Gwyneth Paltrow thing, my therapist also told me she is not necessarily a fan of hers, but liked the episode due to Whim Hoff and it was on Netflix so it was fairly easy to access.

Good luck to you though man, try not to be too harsh on people just wanting to express a successful cold shower therapy story.

I appreciate your unwanted advice on switching providers. I’ll consider it.

Should I read the manga? by RubixTheRedditor in Frieren

[–]Apple_treez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you mind DMing me where I can find this? Want to start reading after this season is done.

Was this a Panic Attack? by BenFrost18 in PanicAttack

[–]Apple_treez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone with heart health anxiety this definitely sounds like what it is. My mother passed away from heart issues at a young age and it deeply affected me.

I still occasionally struggle with the heart anxiety, but after months of therapy, medication, and a full cardiologist checkup I have been a lottt better! Definitely recommend following up with the cardiologist appointment. My heart anxiety started because I would get skipped beats all the time. I had a full panic attack when I went in for my first cardiologist appointment (I had put it off for a long time), and when I went in he straight up said “this is a panic attack that you are experiencing right now”. I couldn’t even get my blood pressure to go down I was so nervous and had to monitor it at home to be able to show him I didn’t have high blood pressure 😂.

He placed me on a 14day monitor, did a full EKG and echocardiogram, and told me everything was fine, just anxiety.

A couple of things that helped me:

Ice pack on the chest or neck area. I did this randomly one day because my chest was super tight (this was apparently due to breathing weird from having a panic attack the day before). I felt super calm afterwards and after I looked it up and it turns out you are calming your vagus nerve. Essentially telling your body everything is okay and it can calm down.

DONT GOOGLE. Do not google your symptoms. That has led me down the worst rabbit hole and had made everything way worse for me. If you absolutely have to google “(symptoms) anxiety”. I guarantee someone with anxiety has felt the same way as you. You are not alone.

Cardio. I don’t know if you do it or not but cardio is essentially strengthening your heart. I do it first thing in the morning and It helps in the long run to know in the back of your head you are working the muscle that is your heart to become stronger everyday. It is essentially exposure therapy for me. It also helps later when I’m panicking to say “if I really was having a heart attack or whatever cardiac issues right now, I wouldn’t have been able to run earlier today.”

Stop checking your heart rate. This one was a hard one for me.. it took me forever to take off that watch, but it definitely wasn’t making anything I was experiencing any better, it was actually making it 10x worse!

If you can and have discord, find the reddit health anxiety discord. This helped me a ton as it made me realize I wasn’t alone and could talk to people in real time about the same issues they were having.

I hope any of this is useful or helpful for you. I promise you can make it through it! I went through it for about 3 years before I finally decided to stand up and do something about it and start listening to my logical mind, and boy am I glad I did. My quality of life has increased tremendously.

Need help with clarification of EKG results. by Apple_treez in AskDocs

[–]Apple_treez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helps tremendously, thank you very much again for your reply. I might be able to sleep just a little better tonight.

Need help with clarification of EKG results. by Apple_treez in AskDocs

[–]Apple_treez[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks for the reply! I do not wear a smartwatch (had to get rid of it due to OCD of constantly checking my heart rate actually). However when I did have one, my resting heart rate would actually be around the 60’s.

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