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Several points to be made here. Firstly, I can understand your frustration and have observed it frequently.
It's important to understand your perspective as it's portrayed in your posting. You stated that you don't know of anyone who has your symptoms without physical disease as well. That's a very isolated thinking pattern since your exposure is limited to persons within your awareness. Problems with digestion are also far more common in persons without disease than with it, so it doesn't point to a cause at all but rather additional symptoms.
You state that you don't like the term "mental" but use it. This is the primary reason that many people refuse to accept their problem to be cognitive in origin. If the term mental is objectionable, then don't use it. People have been socially trained to believe that experiencing a cognitive disorder is unacceptable and to be shunned. To the affected individual, it is a sign of failure and inability to demonstrate emotional strength. These disorders are very real indeed and are, in fact, a type of physical disorder because they represent an imbalance in neurochemistry of the brain, which is an organ just like the liver, or lungs, or heart.
You should remember that the brain is the control center for the entire nervous system and if the brain and nervous system are capable of making things work correctly, they are also capable of making that very same physiology experience dysfunction as well.
As for the No More Panic website, I would not place my confidence in this internet source as being correct. I visited that website at the request of several members on this forum and even attempted to address a number of medical questions posed by visitors and members there. I resigned from further participation because my responses were literally smothered by non-physician members attempting to answer medical questions as though they possessed the actual formal training and experience to do so. It was not only reckless, but they even defended their right to do so. So my suggestion where that website is concerned is to take it solely on the level of ability by those expressing what they believe to be factual but actually is but mere opinion.
Regarding the aspect of fainting, you need to realize that vagal tone is responsible for steep changes in blood pressure. I feel certain that you've either heard about, or even know someone personally, who fainted in the presence of an extremely frightening situation or traumatic experience. Surely you know of people who faint at the sight of blood. Does that mean that these people have a disease? Certainly not. Disturbances to the autonomic nervous system can swiftly result in fainting episodes and frequently does, and a vaso-vagal reaction is responsible for near-fainting or fainting. I can tell you of countless medical students who regularly fall to the ground during their first exposure to surgery or other graphic intervention. They are all very healthy individuals otherwise.
I'm also here to tell you that anxiety and panic disorder can regularly be accompanied by fainting episodes, depending upon the physiology of the individual affected. Lack of sleep can actually exacerbate symptoms as well, so if you're not sleeping well then it could explain quite a lot.
If you're bored of seeing doctors and constantly receiving negative results, then maybe you should reflect upon this more thoroughly. If evidence does not support your contention that "something is wrong" with you physically, then it's time to possibly re-think your approach. You should also be thankful that you don't have a physical disease of some type, which in some cases may represent something that you can't treat or cure. Think of how you might feel if that were to be the case.
You'll be fine.
Best regards and Good Health
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