I've had panic attacks.

For some reason, although I know what's causing it, I swear I'm having a heart attack.

The root cause is my screwed up shoulder and back. If I move a certain way, or do a certain thing, it causes pain in my chest muscles.

Since my left shoulder is a constant source of misery to me, thanks to chronic tendinitis, the combination of of chest pains with left arm pain triggers the attack.

I haven't seen a doctor about it, nor even mentioned it to anybody but my wife until now. Mainly because the first couple of times it happened, I ended up realizing that I really wasn't having a heart attack, and that it was my screwy left shoulder causing the pain.

Maybe it will help me by telling you about it. Writing about it seemed to have helped Ace.

I still get the pain in the chest, and in the left arm, and the first thought in my head is "heart attack!" Which, of course, causes the heart to start racing. And the brain to start irrationalizing. I must be a mild case, though, I can usually talk myself out of it.

I will always get great mirth out of a group of people who will lambast a Conservative for ingesting a legal substance, be it Klonopin, alcohol, or nicotine, but will defend to the death a meth addict who robs and murders.

Maybe they should be reminded that Liberalism is a mental disorder, and far more people suffer from it than those who have panic attacks.

Then again, like they would give a crap anyway.

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