Hi,
I work in sales and have been woking hard for 2 years in a sales role where I talk to poeple all day and manage others in a very busy environment. 18 months ago I had pain in my throat brought on by stress and now the pain has ingrained itslef in my left chest. The pain is constant and sometimes agony to lay down at night. The pain can also spread to my middle back. My sternom can be very tender to touch and coughing and sneezing very painful with a kind of snapping or clicking of my ribs when I do.
I do not belive it is my heart but am convinced it is from being under constant stress and presuure. I have a history of addiciton and have been abstinent for 7 years but my addiciton can play out in other areas such as work. I have taken on a new role that is not face to face sales and frontline management, but the pressure still gets to me.
Does anyone have any experience of recovering from this? I would appreciate any techniques, books, courses, medication that I could try to help me move forward and recover. I have to be really careful with mood altering medication due to my addictive nature.
Thank god for this site too as this is the first place I have read about poeple with similar experiences.
Cheers,
Alroy