Angelica Schuyler
13-11-17, 16:28
Hi, I'm a long-time lurker and a first time poster. My health anxiety is worse than it's been in over a decade, so I'm here looking for help.
Some background: I'm 32 and have had what I consider to be severe anxiety, including health anxiety, since I was 19. I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma as a young teenager and my knowledge of cancer developed into a crippling fear.
At 19, when I was at my worst, I decided to take an SSRI with a supplementary benzodiazepine to keep the worst of my anxiety at bay. These medications are no longer working, I suspect due to being triggered by my mother's recent death and political instability in the U.S.
I've already been to the doctor four times this month for two different ailments, and have another that I'm going in for this Wednesday.
I hope we can all be of help to one another. I'm so tired of being scared and wasting my life.
Some background: I'm 32 and have had what I consider to be severe anxiety, including health anxiety, since I was 19. I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma as a young teenager and my knowledge of cancer developed into a crippling fear.
At 19, when I was at my worst, I decided to take an SSRI with a supplementary benzodiazepine to keep the worst of my anxiety at bay. These medications are no longer working, I suspect due to being triggered by my mother's recent death and political instability in the U.S.
I've already been to the doctor four times this month for two different ailments, and have another that I'm going in for this Wednesday.
I hope we can all be of help to one another. I'm so tired of being scared and wasting my life.