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How Stress Caused Me to Pass Out

Name: How Stress Caused Me to Pass Out
Uploaded: 2026-01-16T15:39:28+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this first‑person video, the speaker recounts using the gym as a mental escape from daily stress. While riding a stationary bike, he suddenly loses…

16 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this first‑person video, the speaker recounts using the gym as a mental escape from daily stress. While riding a stationary bike, he suddenly loses consciousness, awakens on the floor with a split chin and surrounding onlookers, and is rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Medical staff attribute the episode to stress, prompting the speaker to reflect that his body was warning him to slow down. The narrative serves as a cautionary personal account of how unmanaged stress can manifest as acute physical collapse during routine exercise.

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I've always used like the gym as a bit of an escape to like just like help clear my head. Still doing the business, still trying to train, and like one morning just went into the gym as I normally would, was just training, got off the, um, the Devil Bike at the time and just started walking towards the, the like the water like machine. And next thing I know, I'm like, uh, woke up on the, on the floor, um, got like a whole bunch of people around me, um, apparently I was having like a fit, um, split my chin open, blood everywhere, and then got blue lighted to to, to, to hospital. So, um, and, uh, yeah, they just put it down to like stress. So yeah, that was the first time. So I guess like that was probably my body's way of just saying that like, if you're not going to slow down, mate, then yeah, we're working to do it for