How to deal with worries and anxiety about your symptoms - PPPD, MdDS, VM, other chronic dizziness

Dr. Yo - you are so right on with everything on the anxiety, trauma, constant fear "fight, flight or freeze." I had episodes of vertigo since 2015 (they would like 2 days or so.) I just thought, of this is my chronic anxiety. Well, the pandemic starts, I lose everything with my business, family problems, etc. Months later I begin to have more and more vertigo attacks (often triggered by motion like long car rides), and then finally my "vestibular migraine" manifests as 24-7 symptoms. I am still healing from the unbelievable levels of fear, anxiety, etc. that I have dealt with my entire life. All of your videos and online support are helping me gain my life back after 2 years. I have not been very reactive to tons of medications over the past two years. I am very grateful for your continued work and videos supporting all of us with these very debilitating balance disorders. YOU ROCK!

You’re doing God’s work, Dr. Yo. I got PPPD back in 2013 when resources like your channel didn’t exist. I spent the next 7 years in darkness, bouncing from a doctor to doctor, getting an MRI after an MRI. I never lost hope, and my persistence eventually led me to a neurologist at Stanford who was familiar with mind-body symptoms. I’m fully recovered from PPPD now thanks to her. Persistent dizziness is a special animal in the mind-body world, people who haven’t experienced it will never understand just how crushing and isolating it is. My hope is that thanks to people like you people won’t have to suffer for as long as I had.

Dr. Yo, I know my dizziness and rocking and swaying gets so much worse when I am nervous and anxious. It occurred to me that at night, if I get up to go to the bathroom or go make tea, I am NEVER dizzy. For the first hour or so I am up in the morning, I am never dizzy. It is only when the day begins and I have to deal with work, my mother with dementia, money issues, etc...that it comes roaring in...I truly believe worrying about dizziness on top of that makes it much worse. Thank you for your videos.

Watch out for hopelessness. The symptoms are Very uncomfortable but not hopeless. Sometimes I would catch myself thinking Everything was hopeless when symptoms hit high levels. First of all ..Everything Can never be hopeless! This realization helped me to lower my stress bucket. Maybe I was even in a perceived Hopeless situation that brought on my PPPD in the first place?? There was a lot going on back then. So catch and reverse any thoughts of Hopelessness as a Huge overgeneralization! I also recommend identifying What isn’t hopeless Right now in the present moment. Depression hit me hard with PPPD …maybe others don’t experience it that intense. It took me 15 years to get a DX ..and that was hard to deal with.

I write here to spread hope and thank you Dr.yo for always helping us. I have pppd and I’m so much better. I Thought I never get better but I’m about 90% recovered . I’m more than happy

This video is amazing and so helpful Dr. Yo! 🥰 I think a “talk down” video that we could all reference in the midst of anxiety/panic would also be super helpful/comforting! 🙏🏽❤️ Truly thank you so much for all that you do 🥹

Spot-on! 👍 I totally agree. You are always so clear and precise in your explanations. Your image of the reservoir is excellent and speaks for itself. An accumulation of trauma and suffering can only be explosive, and with time, for hypersensitive people, it becomes a very heavy burden to carry and deal with. So when on top of it PPPD appears! ... I personally feel as if my body is sometimes like a compass going crazy! I keep going with my rehab programme, try to relax, etc., but it seems to be endless. Thank you so much for your help, and for articulating so well when you speak, so many people mumble! 😉

Am going thru an extreme dizziness and the fear that comes with it is serious. Am praying this channel helps me heal completely out of it.

Everything you tell in your videos makes so much sense to me... Addressing chronic dizziness from the point of view of emotions, past traumas, hidden fears,... is simply revealing and healing. Happy to be in your members community, BEST DECISION EVER!!! ❤ Thanks for so much...

I really needed this video right now! 💪💪

I can't thank you enough for your videos. Please keep them coming.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much of a relief that I feel since coming across your channel yesterday after I was researching cyber vertigo and visual vertigo. There is no underlying reason for why I have the visual vertigo. I’m still trying to figure things out. Yesterday I had an ENT tell me that, dizziness is not a symptom and he had to stop me at least 20 times when I kept saying dizziness. I felt very hopeless and very stupid because he kept interrupting me and he kept downplaying my symptoms I feel. My neurologist diagnosed me with vestibular migraines and I am being treated for that and I did do physical therapy for two months and then it just got to be too much for me because I suffer with severe anxiety and panic attacks. People in my life I feel they think I am a hypochondriac because I have been researching what is wrong with me for the past three years intensely, and it has taken a toll on my life greatly. My anxiety and this visual vertigo and off-balance and depersonalization are all connected somehow. I have been telling my 21-year-old daughter. That stress definitely can cause tremendous issues for people if it is not controlled. And being 42 years old, and going through what I have been through in my life I really feel that this is all connected to my worrying and anxiety because it has gotten to be so bad. For the last three years, I thought that there was something wrong with me and my doctors and specialist have run so many tests and everything came back fine. After just coming across your video and I have to admit that I had a breakdown because you spoke of exactly what I am going through and you understand! I feel that this must be meant to be because ever since watching your videos it has given me a sense of relief that maybe there really is nothing wrong with me, and that it is psychological so to speak, not biological. I wish there were more people out there, who were more compassionate, and more educated about this like yourself! I had to email my doctor and my psychiatrist as soon as I finished watching some of your videos, and I had an epiphany almost. I have always thought that it was stress that made me so sick. I also have ADHD and it’s very hard for me to follow along and to understand and comprehend things and then explain my symptoms and conditions to other people is even more difficult for me. The brain fog and disorientation is just so crippling sometimes and I just stay in my room. But I will continue watching your videos because they are helping me and I have shared them with my doctors and I just felt that I needed to reach out to you to tell you thank you so much. I really think that I was meant to find you. 😢 I will be a continued subscriber, and I will be watching all future videos, and I am still catching up on your previous videos. But you are a godsend and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for understanding my symptoms, and those similar to me and for putting it on a social platform like YouTube for me to find. I wish you all the best and I look forward to watching your other videos. -Stacey in Pa ❤

Dr. Yo. Always such amazing videos. Thank you

I feel like every video you make provides a lightbulb moment for me. Thanks so much 🙏

Spot on. It’s that I have needs and I never got them met when I was kid. So it triggers that.

Well you took the words right out of my mouth... I know what it is but I still think about everything you said.

Thank you so much for helping me and giving me hope. You have no idea how much it means to me.

Dr. Yo, I cannot thank you enough for your videos!!! THIS HIT HOME 100%!!! “Panic Disorder, C-PTSD, agoraphobia, etc., etc., etc. were my diagnoses since age 15. Instead of using the word “disorder,” for me, I had to change that to “DISPLAY.” All these, including the dizziness/vertigo, are all normal displays for experiencing trauma, severe anxiety, etc. You have been an absolute god-send! When I connected the dots, it’s no wonder I’m feeling the way I am. It’s non-stop. Your videos give me a glimmer of some hope and at the same time, it all seems like a life-long “stuckness.” THANK YOU!!!!❤

Thank you so much x

Thank you once again Dr Yo... Due to this video I just realised that I've had so many stressful situations as a child, so now at age 58 I have a bit of past digging to do, but it makes so much sense, thanks again ❤️