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    You're simply paranoid, like I used to be before I finally realized that anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia aren't deadly. When you struggle with anxiety, you tend to listen to everything that happends in your body, because you fear that something bad might happen to you. Our stomach and intestines are constantly working, as all of our other organs. You'll often hear noises in your stomach, because that how your food is being processed and it releases gasses when being literally broken down in your stomach HCL acid. When you eat less, your HCL acid levels are elevated and it creates even more sounds and releases more gasses. You might even get a complete harmless Acid Reflux. This often causes gagging up excess HCL acid in your throat (leaving a burning sensation in your throat). This is all due to the fact that your muscles in your stomach and esophagus contract, because of your constant stress/anxiety.

    If you wouldn't think of it so often, you wouldn't even notice it. I'll give you a clear example to make my point clear: Our nose is in field-of-view of our eyes. So howcome we don't even see our nose when we don't focus on it. Our subconscious mind deliberately block out our nose from our view, because it thinks that starring at our nose all day long isn't a priority and it is distracting. When you're anxious, you might think theres something wrong with your nose, so therefore you'll allways be able to see your nose, because you're constantly worrying about it. The same thing goes for heartbeat, breathing, sounds, headpressure, etc...

    Your blood pressure and heartbeat can rise during a panic attack or even simple anxiety, not because something is wrong with you, but because you tell your brain that something is wrong with you. Your brains' subconcious mind starts to increasing bloodflow in order to 'search' for the 'problem' that isn't there. 'Blood' works is like 'virus detection system' in your 'computer' brain and 'white blood cells' are like 'antivirus/patch' to help you stop/cure your problem. When your blood can't find anything, it calms your mind down by releasing 'calm down' hormones and you go back to feeling normal but still alittle 'shaken up'.

    Hope this helped!
    Last edited by Ins0mniac; 12-10-2014 at 12:01 PM.
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