Scaredbear
21-12-19, 21:02
I’m here because I really need help. I used to suffer quite severe health anxiety related to myself, and I still have some quirks of it, such as an unhealthy obsession with my heart rate and a fear of DVT when my leg hurts 🙄 but generally I have somehow learnt to manage this.
I am currently facing an unhealthy level of anxiety around my husband’s health. It’s been going on for about a year but has recently gotten worse. I have been panicking constantly inside about something happening to him. I have developed an awful habit of asking him if I can feel his pulse to check that his heart isn’t beating too fast. It’s happening daily and it drives him mad and makes him anxious. He suffers with general anxiety himself and is partial to a panic attack, so my anxiety certainly doesn’t help him.
Currently he is unwell with what we presume is some sort of virus or flu-like thing. He doesn’t have a cough, cold, sore throat or anything but is extremely fatigued, with all over body aches (including a feeling of tightness in his calf which I am worrying is DVT even though I know it probably isn’t), headache etc etc. He’s been unwell for about 5 days now. Anyway, I’m worried there is something seriously wrong with him. And it has sent my anxiety through the roof.
He doesn’t have any health conditions except for fibromyalgia which he was diagnosed with a couple of years ago. I think he is abit in denial about this diagnosis. He works full time, as do I, but he doesn’t seem able to handle it as he gets ill frequently, same things as now, exhausted, lethargic, body aches etc.
I’m 30, he’s 32 and we both smoke. We also don’t eat as healthy as we should. I worry that he will die young (or me).
I’m basically seeking some reassurance that I’m not completely insane and others worry about this too.
Please help :(
I am currently facing an unhealthy level of anxiety around my husband’s health. It’s been going on for about a year but has recently gotten worse. I have been panicking constantly inside about something happening to him. I have developed an awful habit of asking him if I can feel his pulse to check that his heart isn’t beating too fast. It’s happening daily and it drives him mad and makes him anxious. He suffers with general anxiety himself and is partial to a panic attack, so my anxiety certainly doesn’t help him.
Currently he is unwell with what we presume is some sort of virus or flu-like thing. He doesn’t have a cough, cold, sore throat or anything but is extremely fatigued, with all over body aches (including a feeling of tightness in his calf which I am worrying is DVT even though I know it probably isn’t), headache etc etc. He’s been unwell for about 5 days now. Anyway, I’m worried there is something seriously wrong with him. And it has sent my anxiety through the roof.
He doesn’t have any health conditions except for fibromyalgia which he was diagnosed with a couple of years ago. I think he is abit in denial about this diagnosis. He works full time, as do I, but he doesn’t seem able to handle it as he gets ill frequently, same things as now, exhausted, lethargic, body aches etc.
I’m 30, he’s 32 and we both smoke. We also don’t eat as healthy as we should. I worry that he will die young (or me).
I’m basically seeking some reassurance that I’m not completely insane and others worry about this too.
Please help :(