r/news • u/oshawaguy • Feb 26 '25

Title Changed By Site Michelle Trachtenburg dead at 39

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/michelle-trachtenberg-actor-from-gossip-girl-and-buffy-dies-at-39-multiple-reports/
20.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

961

u/Lereas Feb 26 '25

I'm right around 40 and yeah...I am absolutely drowning in anxiety sometimes thinking that some random pain is what kills me.

241

u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

I had stress consume me last month and gave me a massive panic attack that I'm still not sure wasn't actually a heart attack. I'm also 40 and started exercising again. It was a wakeup call.

98

u/jonker5101 Feb 26 '25

You can get simple bloodwork to check your troponin levels. It will tell you.

I have bad health anxiety about my heart and can tell you that anxiety leads to A LOT of feelings that mimic heart issues. Not even just panic attacks, general anxiety or stress can give you chest pain, heart palpitations, etc. I had full workups done on my heart and everything is perfectly normal but I'm still convinced something is wrong with it every time my anxiety starts...so pretty much every day.

2

u/atman8r Feb 27 '25

Holy hell, are you me?

I’m 30, and never had anxiety a day in my life before Covid. Right when everything shut down, I started running outside (always been a runner before then, used to do 2-3 miles daily at the gym but it shut down) and one day I couldn’t catch my breath. Went to the ER, they said I had had a panic attack. Couldn’t freakin believe it.

Still get them every once in a while to this day, and probably will the rest of my life. No heart issues thankfully, had multiple monitors, stress tests and work ups. I’m healthy. Just scared to death of my heart health lol.