I’ve struggled with anxiety for most of my life, some days are better than others but a little over a year ago it started getting significantly worse. In early January I had an incident where I felt like I was having a panic attack but when the chest pain didn’t go away and I started to lose consciousness I went to the hospital and it turned out I was having problems with my heart because of a deficiency of potassium (a surprise, not something I had ever encountered before). Since that hospital visit I had several anxiety-inducing things happen but now I can’t tell whether I’m having a panic attack or if it’s my heart. None of my old coping skills seem to work anymore and I’m not sure what to do. I’m already out a few thousand dollars from the hospital so therapy isn’t an option. I don’t have any friends and my family doesn’t understand what anxiety even is.