Hi everyone. I'm very happy to have found this site. A happy new year to you all.

I found the forum through Google while trying to deal with one of the two 'fatal conditions' I currently think I have. (I do have a certain humorous distance from my hypochondriac condition, but on another level I'm deadly serious and completely trapped by it, so please don't be deceived if I sound flippant occasionally.)

I've been afflicted by bouts, sometimes deep and long-lasting, of hypochondria since I was a child. It's getting worse. I won't go into detail here as this is just an introductions thread, but suffice it to say it would be marvellous if I could find people to 'talk to' here and find a way out of this, because it's got to the point where I can hardly think about anything else.