Since the onset of COVID (and maybe before I don't remember), I've developed horrible health anxiety. 

Last night I was in the ER for rapid heart rate and dizziness and it turns out (at least in that moment) it was because of dehydration.

I was given fluids to help me rehydrate and literally almost immediately I started feeling chill af. As if I had taken klonopin or something. I literally saw within seconds my heart rate on the monitor go from like very high to in the 90s within seconds. 

I still have horrible health anxiety and they ruled out anything serious with my heart but now i'm like - ok but what if it's my brain - which ik is irrational but that's why we're all in this thread I guess. 

I did ask the nurse as I was leaving if what I was experiencing was "real" or if it was psychosomatic so at least if it was the latter, I can bring that to my therapist as something to work on, but she reassured me that I was definitely having a real issue.

So I guess the moral of the story is that I should drink more water and that IV fluids are my drug of choice (I'm kidding mostly)