The article recounts a personal journey through recurrent medical issues and how the author grapples with the anxiety of experiencing physical symptoms. Initially dismissed as anxiety, their conditions led to a series of inconclusive medical tests. The author reflects on past experiences of pain and their struggle between accepting a psychological basis for their ailments versus seeking out physical health explanations, ultimately delving into the relationship between mind and body.
When I was 17, I went to the hospital for tightness in my chest. After an EKG, an X-ray, and some blood tests, everything came back normal.
I kept getting the same answers: There was no physical basis to what I was experiencing. I knew by then that muscle tension could be a symptom of anxiety.
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