Posted by Squidgit
Hahaha!
Hmm I wonder if I'm just crazy?
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Nah, it is pretty typical.
It is kind of like a backwards form of panic disorder:
-Your harmless mental fear causes the physical symptoms of anaphylaxis.
-Versus harmless and unrelated physical sensations causing mental fear of a panic attack in someone with PD.
Although extremely unlikely and rare, I believe that there are cases where people have essentially tricked themselves into anaphylactic shock.
Kind of like "ghost pregnancies" (I think that's what they're called, or "false pregnancies"), where the woman truly believes she's pregnant and so her body develops as though she were but... come to find out, there is not actually a developing fetus, at all?
Our minds and bodies do some crazy things, eh? (Can you see why I love psychology so much, yet?)