Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and panic disorder. I learned yesterday of a correlation between a heart abnormality called mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and anxiety/panic disorder.
Who would have thought? But look at all the Google search hits on the subject!
For example, in one of the top search hits:
People with mitral valve prolapse seem somehow to be wired differently . . .
Their autonomic response can be much more volatile and unstable, as if set on hair-trigger, so that normal stresses and surprises set off an exaggerated response, flooding their systems with stress hormones called the catecholamines . . . In some ways this could be defined as a catecholamine disorder. The principal catecholamines are epinephrine and adrenaline. People with mitral valve prolapse are intermittently and unpredictably awash in their own catecholamines. This leaves them alternately innervated and exhausted--"wired but tired" is a common feeling.
Fascinating.
12:15:23 PM | See also health
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