CBT for Hypochondria
Hello all,
Grace, 31, Female, Not overweight, Exercises 5 days a week, no known health conditions, normal recent complete blood work.
I am currently in CBT, Biofeedback Therapy. Has anyone had success with CBT without medication????? Please and Thank you!!!!
I am brand new here. My story goes like this:
Gave birth to my daughter in 2014... it all began! It started with postpartum anxiety which developed into SEVERE hypochondria. from January 2015- June 2015 (When I got help) I saw 24 different doctors, 8 E.R. visits, Cat Scans, X-Rays, MRI, TONS of blood work... You name it I did it.
Once I got help it all started to calm down. I was put on Zoloft and coupled that with talk therapy. I'd say within 6-8 weeks I started to come back to normal. I was good. I weened off the Zoloft by February 2017. I had some anxiety after but nothing that was too intense.
October 2017 my father passed away suddenly. Anxiety started to creep up on me again. He died from heart failure. By December I visited the doctor for chest pain. January 2018- Im stuck on Pancreatic Cancer.
An abdominal ultrasound showed minimal enlargement of my liver. The doctor was not at all concerned by this and assured me that an ultrasound is not accurate for liver measurements because it can not view the whole liver in one image so measurements are taken in sections. OF COURSE I panicking over this.
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Postpartum Depression/Anxiety/Hypochondria 2014-2015
Zoloft 100mg 2015-2017
Talk Therapy 2015-2016
2018
Anxiety/Hypochondria- Returned
Current Treatments:
CBT- Current
Biofeedback- Current
Daily Meditation- Current
Exercise- 30 min 5 days a week
CBD Oil- CW Hemp
Pod Cast Listing To- The Anxiety Guy