Gibbo92
07-09-13, 01:26
Hello guys.
I really think I need some help. I'm a 20 year old male and I think I may have health anxiety. I'm not sure. I've never been diagnosed or anything.
Hopefully it's okay if I can run you through some things and you let me know what you guys think. I'm a typical male really I bottle up most emotions and feelings and rarely let them out. I have never told anyone about these feelings I get sometimes and I tend to suffer in silence.
Okay, so it started around 2 years ago around Christmas time. I got food poisoning and it was the most ill I have been in my entire life, After then I started experiencing pains in the side of my head which I believe where due to stress and lack of sleep, but I convinced myself I had a brain tumour and I began to become really really panicky. And it got worse and worse, I couldn't sleep, and I eventually ended up being sick a couple of times. And then just like that it went and I was fine again. It has pretty much stayed away for the last year or so. But now it's back again and almost worse then before.
I got a sore throat about 2 or 3 weeks ago, stayed in bed and it went, throat swelled up the week after with no pain, I convinced myself I had throat cancer after googling the ******* symptoms. Went to the doctors on Tuesday and he told me I only had tonsilitus, gave me some Penicillin and sent me on my way. Although I really grabbed on to the fact that he kept saying to me "I hope I can help you" and asked me if I smoked which made me think I had tonsil cancer even more.
Anyway, I got home from work today and did the weekly feel of my nads and I felt a lump at the top near the tube and I've convinced myself I now have testicle cancer also, and it's spread to my throat. Even though I'm sure this 'lump' has been there as long as I remember. And to put it bluntly I am freaking out. I am currently sat in my room taking short breaths I don't know what to do, I'm close to tears and I'm not really someone who ever cries. I managed to be in a great mood earlier too. :-(.
I just don't know what to do guys, is this Health Anxiety?
I really think I need some help. I'm a 20 year old male and I think I may have health anxiety. I'm not sure. I've never been diagnosed or anything.
Hopefully it's okay if I can run you through some things and you let me know what you guys think. I'm a typical male really I bottle up most emotions and feelings and rarely let them out. I have never told anyone about these feelings I get sometimes and I tend to suffer in silence.
Okay, so it started around 2 years ago around Christmas time. I got food poisoning and it was the most ill I have been in my entire life, After then I started experiencing pains in the side of my head which I believe where due to stress and lack of sleep, but I convinced myself I had a brain tumour and I began to become really really panicky. And it got worse and worse, I couldn't sleep, and I eventually ended up being sick a couple of times. And then just like that it went and I was fine again. It has pretty much stayed away for the last year or so. But now it's back again and almost worse then before.
I got a sore throat about 2 or 3 weeks ago, stayed in bed and it went, throat swelled up the week after with no pain, I convinced myself I had throat cancer after googling the ******* symptoms. Went to the doctors on Tuesday and he told me I only had tonsilitus, gave me some Penicillin and sent me on my way. Although I really grabbed on to the fact that he kept saying to me "I hope I can help you" and asked me if I smoked which made me think I had tonsil cancer even more.
Anyway, I got home from work today and did the weekly feel of my nads and I felt a lump at the top near the tube and I've convinced myself I now have testicle cancer also, and it's spread to my throat. Even though I'm sure this 'lump' has been there as long as I remember. And to put it bluntly I am freaking out. I am currently sat in my room taking short breaths I don't know what to do, I'm close to tears and I'm not really someone who ever cries. I managed to be in a great mood earlier too. :-(.
I just don't know what to do guys, is this Health Anxiety?