smk16
28-11-06, 03:48
Hey All,
I have been dealing with health anxiety for over a year now. No one will actually diagnose my with any form of mental health issue but talking to some friends who deal with anxiety and depression and doing a lot of reading I believe I have anxiety which seems to be resulting in depression. Every little ache or pain or wierd little feeling in my body has to be blood clots, tumors, stroke, heart attack, etc. I am very guilty of going on the web to find a symptom and then thinking I have the worst possible diagnosis. I seemed to have this somewhat under control but a week ago a guy in one of my classes had a grand mall siezure and it scared me bad! Now I am so afraid to go to school and my anxiety is bad again.
When I get anxious feelings I beat myself up and then become very depressed and just feel like crying and screaming and running around in a circle. This in turn makes me feel like I am going crazy and I should be locked up in an institution. Sometimes I feel so aweful that I wish the health issue I think I have would just kill me.
I just went to a therapist today and she talked to me for like 10 minutes, barely long enough to get my name let alone a solution to my problem, and right away suggested I go on medication. I would like to try other things first becaue medication scares me. What I really needed from her was to reassure me that I am not crazy.
smk
I have been dealing with health anxiety for over a year now. No one will actually diagnose my with any form of mental health issue but talking to some friends who deal with anxiety and depression and doing a lot of reading I believe I have anxiety which seems to be resulting in depression. Every little ache or pain or wierd little feeling in my body has to be blood clots, tumors, stroke, heart attack, etc. I am very guilty of going on the web to find a symptom and then thinking I have the worst possible diagnosis. I seemed to have this somewhat under control but a week ago a guy in one of my classes had a grand mall siezure and it scared me bad! Now I am so afraid to go to school and my anxiety is bad again.
When I get anxious feelings I beat myself up and then become very depressed and just feel like crying and screaming and running around in a circle. This in turn makes me feel like I am going crazy and I should be locked up in an institution. Sometimes I feel so aweful that I wish the health issue I think I have would just kill me.
I just went to a therapist today and she talked to me for like 10 minutes, barely long enough to get my name let alone a solution to my problem, and right away suggested I go on medication. I would like to try other things first becaue medication scares me. What I really needed from her was to reassure me that I am not crazy.
smk