Health anxiety and irrational fear of seizures.
I have had really bad anxiety since a couple of years now, it all started after a covid infection at age 22 (agoraphobia, high heart rate, dizziness, brain zaps which jolt me awake at night etc). I was doing really well for years until my half sister had an epileptic seizure years ago. When she spoke to me she described her symptoms, and I'm like damn I have these too, but the thing is anxiety/long covid causes all those symptoms, dizziness/high heart rate etc.
Now she recently had another one, and I was doing well for a long time but now it made me spiral even more than the first time. For some reason I keep thinking I'm going to stress myself out so much I'll give myself one (which I learned is not really possible unless you have a predisposition to them to begin with). Today I had a brief period of deja vu and then I realized that can be an aura symptom so I had my first ever panic attack. My heart rate went up and I felt I couldn't breathe and thought I would pass out.
I was honestly doing fine completely before any of this happened to my sister. The worst part? I know my fear/thoughts are completely irrational. I have no reason to be so afraid of this condition which someone else has! I just don't know if anyone has any advice being in a similar situation.