Good day folks. So about a year ago, I went to the doc's office after I experienced some weird sensation and panicked( my heart was beating fast for more than 7 hours, that was largely due to me being fearful because I thought it was a heart attack) so I go to the hospital and it turns out that it's not that except I'm convinced that something is wrong with me. Several tests later and nothing until I go to the GPs office where I was super anxious as I thought something was seriously wrong with me and I got a very high reading of 170/104, the nurses panicked and thought that was way too high so they referred me. I went through a cycle of tests and nothing but my blood pressure was consistently high due to being extremely anxious and I was convinced something was wrong, fuelled by my doctor's reactions and my lack of understanding of blood pressure.


Now I won't lie I'm not in the greatest shape. Despite being 20, I'm slightly overweight, very solitary and went through an entire year of depression so that was a further blow to my mental and physical health. So in any case I was convinced I was very ill and given a bunch of meds. Fast foward a few months and I got a home blood pressure machine, I could never quite shake the feeling that something was wrong and so even when I measured it at home, it was still bad because I was anxious. After a while I kind of resigned myself to the fact and began to get less anxious and my readings went down to 130/80s range. Now the issue is I don't know if my blood diagnosis sparked some sort of trauma response but I just can't be consistently calm anymore. I've lost much of my composure and I'm a very anxious person now and constantly wondering if my blood pressure is high, what if a stroke happens etc. I'm pretty much miserable and I haven't even started my life yet.


So anyway I wanted to ask that is there anyone who has managed to overcome something similar? If so how did you overcome it? I could really use the advice.