The category ‘‘feeling endangered’’ encompassed reactions to symptoms that were not relieved or that became
more severe. This category had 2 properties: fear and/or
anxiety and seriousness (Table 2).
Fear and/or anxiety concerned emotional and existential experiences that commonly increased when
symptoms wor sened. Some of the participants explicitly expressed strong fear and agony.
The feeling was that now I am going to die.Now I will get a
new,more serious myocardial infarction, so now I am going
to die. That was the first thing I thought about IIt filled my
mind. I thought about the children, I thought about
everything. (i2)