joby130
07-07-21, 20:24
I just want to offer some encouragement to everyone who is suffering from anxiety. I have been reading accounts here of the physical symptoms of anxiety that cause so much distress. I think it is very hard to accept that some of the symptoms we experience are down to anxiety. Dizziness – it must be a brain tumour, upset stomach must be bowel cancer, and so on – we’ve all been there…But there IS a direct correlation between my state of anxiety and the physical symptoms I experience. Anxiety is so powerful, and the symptoms are so really, but once the anxiety is lessened then so do the symptoms. I have been struggling with health anxiety for a long time now and it has been particularly bad over the last 18 months or so. I am lucky that I have been able to see a psychologist, but I think it’s taken me over a year to begin to understand the process to start to recover. My psychologist’s approach is ACT – Action and Commitment Therapy. There are videos on YouTube which might help someone.