Beckybecks
17-12-15, 18:58
My health anxiety is ruining my life!
The slightest twinge sends me into heightened panic where I imagine the absolute worst outcome.
Also I find when I'm anxious each little symptom becomes huge in my mind and I experience extreme and uncomfortable pain thats probably actually little more than a twinge.
Ive become addicted to various forums, each for a different ailment.
At the moment I have painful breasts which I'm assured is very probably due to hormonal imbalance. But will I accept that? No! The pain has moved to my chest, my jaw, my arms, my head..... I feel ill enough to go to bed and stay there. But I'm not ill......
Instead of accepting that everyone has aches and pains and just getting on with it, I'm ruining and wasting my life by inventing symptoms which I'm truly suffering through.
I hardly ever have a day where I feel "well" now. I'm so very tired of this but don't have a clue how to teach my mind to behave normally again.
The slightest twinge sends me into heightened panic where I imagine the absolute worst outcome.
Also I find when I'm anxious each little symptom becomes huge in my mind and I experience extreme and uncomfortable pain thats probably actually little more than a twinge.
Ive become addicted to various forums, each for a different ailment.
At the moment I have painful breasts which I'm assured is very probably due to hormonal imbalance. But will I accept that? No! The pain has moved to my chest, my jaw, my arms, my head..... I feel ill enough to go to bed and stay there. But I'm not ill......
Instead of accepting that everyone has aches and pains and just getting on with it, I'm ruining and wasting my life by inventing symptoms which I'm truly suffering through.
I hardly ever have a day where I feel "well" now. I'm so very tired of this but don't have a clue how to teach my mind to behave normally again.