View Full Version : Has anyone had health anxiety but towards mental health
Littlemisssunshine10
20-06-19, 20:53
As title says has anyone had health anxiety but fears of going crazy? Or they will loose it etc? About getting phychsosis or something? It's such a hard one to try beat.
ankietyjoe
20-06-19, 20:58
Loads of people have. There are threads here about it all the time.
Psychosis can only really be caused by chemical, physical or trauma damage. And by trauma I mean experiences way beyond what 99.9% of us have experienced here. The worst anxiety you've ever felt is nothing like true trauma, so no. You can't get psychosis from anxiety.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to see similar threads or do a search. It will yield pages of similar posts.
Positive thoughts
Yes. In fact one of my first biggest episodes of health anxiety was an obsession/fear of developing schizophrenia. I must have spent 3/4 months worrying during my last year in university, consantly checking my peripheral vision, doing online screening tests, looking on youtube for behaviours. It all started because I thought Id seen a cat out of the corner of my eye, and being an animal lover, turned round to go say hello.......no cat. God knows how I managed to finish uni with a first class hons.
These days I worry at times that Im bipolar. My dad was diagnosed late in life in his 50's following a massive nervous breakdown, and then a pretty intense manic episode two yearss later. The manic episode had a bad effect on me, and today I worry that my anxious behaviour and tendencies in itself is a symptom of bipolar. My dad was a health worrier as well when younger, so sometimes I feel like I'm following the same path. I've had periods of depression, but no mania........yet.
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