Anyone who has experienced some kind of arrhythmia is prone to worrying. After all, our hearts beat to the tune of our life… and when someone finds their heart is skipping beats, being concerned is a natural reaction. This is why you should always consult with your doctor to understand what’s causing your arrhythmia, since this symptom may have a number of different causes.
Generally speaking, arrhythmia is experienced as a galloping, fluttering or pounding inside the chest, with no apparent cause. If you have a history of anxiety disorders and you also have arrhythmia, there’s a chance the two phenomena are related to one another. In fact, you should keep in mind that anxiety, stress and heat palpitations all feed off one another.
When it’s indeed your anxiety that causes your arrhythmia, you will notice how the erratic beating actually seems to get worse the more you focus on it and worry. This is a good way of knowing whether your heart fluttering is caused by anxiety: if the symptom gets worse when you’re worrying about it and better when you take your mind off it, then your anxiety is likely feeding your arrhythmia (and vice-versa).
It doesn’t imply that anxiety is the sole cause of your arrhythmia, though. You anxiousness may only be magnifying a condition that’s already there, and this is just why you should always see a doctor and run the necessary tests for know for sure what’s causing your heart to skip beats.
If your doctor is unable to locate a valid physical reason that might be causing your arrhythmia, then your real problem is likely an anxiety disorder. If that’s the case, you should be experiencing other symptoms such as increased body tension, localized pains, blind panic, or just about any from the dozens of anxiety symptoms.
Once you have established that your anxiety is indeed the sole cause of your arrhythmia, you should be mindful to treat the cause, not the symptom. If you just treat your arrhythmia, your anxiety will probably just manifest in another way. The only permanent solution to your problem is learning how to overcome your anxiety disorder.
