niro83
16-03-17, 10:35
Hi, I constantly worry about my health and most other things. I used to be care free and not really worry about anything, but then when my children were born, I think I started to think about anything that could go wrong for them and then that made me worry if I would be around for them. I got to the age where everything doesn't just heal immediately and you start noticing things with your body that weren't there before.
I posted this question, because while given time, most of the things that I worry about go away, the cycle that I'm stuck in is that every time a new symptoms arises, I think to myself, this could actually be the real thing this time. We're bombarded with posts on facebook that tell us to watch out for these signs of cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, etc. and to be honest, I have most of the symptoms on most days. If I ask myself, am I thirsty, I'll then find myself incredibly thirsty, and if I'm asking myself do I have a pain in my arm, then I have a pain in my arm.
I feel this is the cycle that I need to break out of to get over health anxiety.
So the question is, how should we live our lives? If I can't trust my body to tell me when there is a problem because of the anxiety, then do I just have to
assume everything is a problem and get everything checked out all the time?
I went to the gym yesterday and worked on the weights, and then afterwards I had a tight feeling in my chest. I worried that I was having a cardiac issue, and I know that it's just me working on my muscles, but then the little devil comes in to my mind and says, but how would you know? Maybe it was the working out that over stressed your heart.
When should you say, nope, I'm definitely having a heart issue I should alert someone right now! This is my biggest hurdle over coming this issue. I quite often go to bed and think, right, I'll go to sleep and if I'm here in the morning, then it was all in my mind, but that seems like blind ignorance.
Has anyone found a better perspective?
I posted this question, because while given time, most of the things that I worry about go away, the cycle that I'm stuck in is that every time a new symptoms arises, I think to myself, this could actually be the real thing this time. We're bombarded with posts on facebook that tell us to watch out for these signs of cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, etc. and to be honest, I have most of the symptoms on most days. If I ask myself, am I thirsty, I'll then find myself incredibly thirsty, and if I'm asking myself do I have a pain in my arm, then I have a pain in my arm.
I feel this is the cycle that I need to break out of to get over health anxiety.
So the question is, how should we live our lives? If I can't trust my body to tell me when there is a problem because of the anxiety, then do I just have to
assume everything is a problem and get everything checked out all the time?
I went to the gym yesterday and worked on the weights, and then afterwards I had a tight feeling in my chest. I worried that I was having a cardiac issue, and I know that it's just me working on my muscles, but then the little devil comes in to my mind and says, but how would you know? Maybe it was the working out that over stressed your heart.
When should you say, nope, I'm definitely having a heart issue I should alert someone right now! This is my biggest hurdle over coming this issue. I quite often go to bed and think, right, I'll go to sleep and if I'm here in the morning, then it was all in my mind, but that seems like blind ignorance.
Has anyone found a better perspective?