Qwertybird

I am a teacher in a high-stress high school. I have been severely depressed and often vomit bile in the morning. My weight keeps going up because I keep eating to comfort myself and my hours have gotten odd. I am mildly overweight, nowhere near obese. I don't sleep very well anymore.

The kids finally brought me over the line today and I flipped out on them. I stopped flipping out, got a horrible chest pain in the middle of the left side of my chest, and my tongue felt fat and I couldn't breathe or swallow, and I fell over. I couldn't move for 10 minutes.

I was able to get up again in a few minutes from my chair to teach the next class. Five hours later, I am still tired and short on breath. My heart keeps going "BANG, BANG, BANG" against my chest. Very slowly, but very hard. I used to have low blood pressure and my pulse is very slow. I also naturally have a low body temperature. My heart feels better when I cough.

I'm under an inordinate amount of stress lately outside of school. But that's not the real issue here...

What I am concerned about is, if this stress keeps up, am I going to suffer a heart attack? I am only in my 20's.

What the heck happened to me today? My father said that these are the precursors to a heart attack and I need to defend myself against all the stress before I actually do have one? (He has had multiple stress-related heart attacks and is living out his life with advanced heart failure right now.) I don't think it's just some panic attack. This was some of the worst pain I had ever felt in my chest in my life...