Leah88
17-10-17, 01:46
I've been a long time health anxiety sufferer but this month I've tried harder than ever before at breaking the cycle. If I'm being honest, I think we hide behind our fear of aging, dying and ceasing to exsist so health anxiety offers a little escape from the dread that comes with awareness of mortality. Until you find a way past this fear I believe you will have health anxiety until the day you die. Sure, you'll have little breaks from it every so often but it'll always be your shadow. If you are an atheist like most of the modern world are, then you will probably always have a small fear of death but it does not need to take over your life. What works for one may not work for everybody but my suggestions are medication, relationships and excecise/diet. It's what science has always suggested to help with anxiety but unless you do it continually it won't help you. Also caring about something bigger than yourself will help you find peace with the fact that one day you will stop existing. I believe people with heightened anxiety will always have to workhard to rewire our brains because for some reason we haven't evolved like the rest of humanity to be ok with dying and able to just accept that you can't fight it, even with all the medical science the word has to offer in your lifetime. Just accept that you have a heightened survival mechanism in your brain left over from your ancestors. It's not that non anxiety sufferers aren't aware they are mortal, it's just that they don't feed the pathway that focuses on it. One day you might indeed get diagnosed with a terminal illness or you might not. But if you're dead you won't know you're dead so who cares? Most of you probably already know all of this but sometimes you need to hear someone else say it.