violet33
12-09-14, 22:25
For a long time, I'd say about 21/2 yrs I was posting here about mild but chronic headaches. Now around the beginning of 2014 that started tapering off. I still get mild headaches but not as much. NOW it's my stomach. & intestines due to my stomach being VERY sensitive. The thing is I catastrophize out if this horrible anxiety I live with. I'm either fearing brain tumors or stomach or colon cancer or some other deadly illness. I can't seem to turn off these fears. I have no abdominal pain, just gastric discomfort. It is real, but it gets blown out of proportion in my mind out of fear into some nightmare illness. How do other people with with these health anxieties cope? I am pretty much always living in a state of fear, anxiety or panic! I need to curb this. Any suggestions? I could really use any. I don't want my life to be lived in fear like this ! I take Xanax which is the ONLY thing that helps somewhat.