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14-11-06, 10:29
As well as worrying obsessively about my own health, I'm also over-reacting about everyone around me.
My little boy came home from school on Friday with a tummy bug. I know this is such a normal thing, but I still couldn't help but worry if it were something worse.
Yesterday, my husband said he had a pain in his buttock, he's had it a few months. He only feels it when he runs, most of the time he's not aware of it. Sounds muscular from his description. This really worried me - I want him to get it checked out but he won't. I'm scared it's a sign of something "early stages" and if he leaves it til he's in more pain then it may be too late to treat.
I know the reason why I feel like this (because my friend tolerated her pain for a year before getting it checked out, then found out she has pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver and was by then untreatable). Now I think EVERYTHING should be treated as suspicious until proven otherwise - "just in case". I also know this isn't normal, rational or healthy, but I don't know what to do about it.
I work in a private hospital and I type health screen reports (just 2 days a week). I find myself getting really anxious for other people when they have worrying symptoms or abnormal test results. I don't even know these people!
Sometimes I get really scared by my thoughts. I know that they are ruling my life, and I just want to push them to the back of my mind.
Does anyone else on here suffer anxiety for other people's health?
My little boy came home from school on Friday with a tummy bug. I know this is such a normal thing, but I still couldn't help but worry if it were something worse.
Yesterday, my husband said he had a pain in his buttock, he's had it a few months. He only feels it when he runs, most of the time he's not aware of it. Sounds muscular from his description. This really worried me - I want him to get it checked out but he won't. I'm scared it's a sign of something "early stages" and if he leaves it til he's in more pain then it may be too late to treat.
I know the reason why I feel like this (because my friend tolerated her pain for a year before getting it checked out, then found out she has pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver and was by then untreatable). Now I think EVERYTHING should be treated as suspicious until proven otherwise - "just in case". I also know this isn't normal, rational or healthy, but I don't know what to do about it.
I work in a private hospital and I type health screen reports (just 2 days a week). I find myself getting really anxious for other people when they have worrying symptoms or abnormal test results. I don't even know these people!
Sometimes I get really scared by my thoughts. I know that they are ruling my life, and I just want to push them to the back of my mind.
Does anyone else on here suffer anxiety for other people's health?