NUMBER 1 worry with health anxiety

[tmckenzie-orr]

What is the number 1 health anxiety worry for you all?

Is it a problem with your heart?

cancer?

Brain tumor?

Throat/mouth cancer?

skin cancer?

Leukemia?

[Fishmanpa]

Pulisa posted this on another thread:


As an HA sufferer myself I have to say respectfully that I think this board unintentionally encourages HA. I know it's a hugely emotive subject and it's very difficult to strike the right balance re empathy v enabling.

IMO, this is an example of this. What benefit is there in asking what your biggest fear is? By answering it makes one focus on their fears and worries.

Positive thoughts

[pulisa]

Please don't do a survey on HA. It doesn't help anybody.

[tmckenzie-orr]

I wanted to see what everybodys main fear was, As i mainly focus on 1. skin cancer as main, 2. throat mouth cancer, 3. bowel cancer, so basically worry about all 3 depending if 1 of my moles look funny it will be skin cancer, if i have a ulcer or a ache in my mouth or throat then throat cancer, and loose bowels or stomach aches i worry about that, I cannot wait to get help and stop these negative thoughts it really does depress me so much , i work outisde in the sun and i am constantly putting sun screen on like a weirdo, and everymole looks like its got bigger and sends me into panic mode but then none of them look really bad i suppose i just hate it i am a absolute freak i need this cbt to hurry up and make me think better, Because cannot keep worrying like this it causes tight throat in worry and then i panic more, :( roll on winter lol

[pulisa]

I appreciate your torment but you need to find ways to suppress your HA symptoms, not draw attention to them.

[Richard1960]

To be honest i do not worry about anything that might happen or not,i just concentrate on staying well now without thinking what if what if which probably will not even happen.

Personally i do not find worrying about health issues to be very enabling myself.

[tmckenzie-orr]

It's easy for myself to say I'll do that but then when it comes down to it a trigger sets me off and that's it I'm off on one, like Something unusual in my mental mind that haven't seen before or something or a ulcer or something lol I hate it but I do believe I am gonna beat these and certainly without tablets

[pulisa]

But how do you think a survey on HA symptoms could possibly help you?

[tmckenzie-orr]

It's not going to help me it's just being curious what everybody else main fear is, if such a big problem then please don't read it I don't mean to upset people by making it , it was just a curious poll

[MyNameIsTerry]

I would imagine you will find something about prevalence on the Internet. Polls seem to be limited on NMP.