8 symptoms doctors often dismiss as anxiety |
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| | | By Angela Haupt
Editor, Health and Wellness |
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| Years ago, my aunt went to the hospital with heart palpitations, was told she had anxiety, and was sent home. She died in her sleep of a massive heart attack days later, at age 40. | Unfortunately, my aunt's story isn't unusual: Doctors routinely dismiss real medical symptoms that have nothing to do with mental health as anxiety. I asked experts which symptoms are most likely to be misdiagnosed—and why. | | | |  | Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains? | The pandemic may have affected cognition in multiple ways. |
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