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Originally Posted by PenguinExMachina
I believe that is possible.
A few years ago I was diagnosed with Tachycardia. Did testing to figure out why my heart had suddenly started beating so quickly. It wasn't heart-disease related. We just couldn't figure out what was going on. Eventually, we tracked it down to my mental illness. It had started some time after my panic disorder decided to rear its ugly head back up. The constant anxiety, my mind and body were just pushing adrenaline and somehow it got switched to 'non-stop'.
Mental can cause physical. This has been well documented. Depression can wreck havoc on your body. Perhaps there is some way it switches on your immune system and the related hormones so that they are always on high alert, much like the prefrontal cortex in those with anxiety. From there, with the body being so interconnected, it's like a series of switches.
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I had pretty bad issues with tachycardia for a while. Is significantly better now. The difference was a variety of purely physiological interventions involving reducing toxin load, changing diet, dealing with chronic infections, calming the nervous system, and endocrine stuff.
I had a few panic attacks also and have had problems with severe anxiety and agitation, depression, mood disturbance, and more. These are all common in Lyme disease and in mercury toxicity and even severe nutrient deficiencies.
I also have some trauma and prolonged emotional distress in the picture, so yea it's confusing. But I thikn the physiological factors need to be addressed. They will not go away and could be the root cause. Things like panic and anxiety can seemingly be psychological phenomenon OR purely physiological.
Incidentally, a cardiac work-up revealed nothing. The cardiologist was pretty much useless. He only knew how to order tests, review the data, and feed it back to me.