Claire1071
07-11-08, 07:20
It's been great finding this forum and reading all your posts this last week. I really did think I was the only one with health anxiety.
I've been totally obsessed with my heath since I was 17, that was 20 years ago. I started having panic attacks but not knowing there was such a thing I thought it must be a heart attack (having heart problems as a child made my own diagnosis more likely).
To cut a very long story short my health anxiety now seems centred around my 3 year old daughter. I am terrified of her getting ill. I will avoid taking her out to busy public places because of bugs and germs. I worry about what she eats (food poisoning from take aways etc). I even avoid toddler group and and terrified of her starting nursery because of all the bugs and germs she'll pick up.
At the moment I seem to have picked up a bug myself and have had a sore throat, high temp and tight chest since Mon. All I can think of is my daughter showing the slightest symptom. It has ruled my whole week. I'm even sleeping in her room at night incase she wakes up with a fever or vomitting.
Does anyone else project their health fears on to their kids? I feel like a bad mum as I hate her playing with other children etc.
I've had some hypnotherapy recently which seemed to work for a while but this recent bug has set me right back again.
I've got loads more to add but I'm aware that I'm rambling.
Thanks for reading!
I've been totally obsessed with my heath since I was 17, that was 20 years ago. I started having panic attacks but not knowing there was such a thing I thought it must be a heart attack (having heart problems as a child made my own diagnosis more likely).
To cut a very long story short my health anxiety now seems centred around my 3 year old daughter. I am terrified of her getting ill. I will avoid taking her out to busy public places because of bugs and germs. I worry about what she eats (food poisoning from take aways etc). I even avoid toddler group and and terrified of her starting nursery because of all the bugs and germs she'll pick up.
At the moment I seem to have picked up a bug myself and have had a sore throat, high temp and tight chest since Mon. All I can think of is my daughter showing the slightest symptom. It has ruled my whole week. I'm even sleeping in her room at night incase she wakes up with a fever or vomitting.
Does anyone else project their health fears on to their kids? I feel like a bad mum as I hate her playing with other children etc.
I've had some hypnotherapy recently which seemed to work for a while but this recent bug has set me right back again.
I've got loads more to add but I'm aware that I'm rambling.
Thanks for reading!