TwilightFlower
10-11-08, 22:18
Hey again, I've been trying to get over my concerns and what not and decided to make a thread about this.
My fear was/is that I for some reason have a brain tumor, although I am trying to work past this fear. The past couple days I've been really paying attention to the radio, TV, and my surroundings. I see cancer stuff EVERYWHERE. Just yesterday my Father and I were at the store and saw an Ad about Breast cancer which basically said "1 in 4 women will develop breast cancer!". We hear about "cancer" everyday and for some of us we don't want to hear about it constantly. Heck, 3 of my grandparents have/had cancer. In addition, a close friend of mine when we were children died of Leukemia, and I know of 4 people (ironically who I know in some cases quite well) over the past few years who have gotten brain cancer. On the radio they had an ad that went something like this "Keep your kids healthy (not over weight) and get them to excercize or in the future they will have heart problems and/or get cancer". lol, I am 15 pounds overweight and haven't been excercizing much in the past couple years, guess I am screwed. :shrug:
They do this for all types of diseases, not just cancer. HIV/AIDS is another big one. It reminds me of the "Bird Flu scare". Everyone avoided birds out of fear, because a break out of this disease "could wipe out most of the world's population"...and now we don't hear about it anymore.
I definitely believe early detection is a good thing and saves lives, but at the same time..sometimes I really think they go overboard with it.
Reading the nomorepanic thing on Health Anxiety was very interesting and so true.
Anyone else noticing this a lot?
My fear was/is that I for some reason have a brain tumor, although I am trying to work past this fear. The past couple days I've been really paying attention to the radio, TV, and my surroundings. I see cancer stuff EVERYWHERE. Just yesterday my Father and I were at the store and saw an Ad about Breast cancer which basically said "1 in 4 women will develop breast cancer!". We hear about "cancer" everyday and for some of us we don't want to hear about it constantly. Heck, 3 of my grandparents have/had cancer. In addition, a close friend of mine when we were children died of Leukemia, and I know of 4 people (ironically who I know in some cases quite well) over the past few years who have gotten brain cancer. On the radio they had an ad that went something like this "Keep your kids healthy (not over weight) and get them to excercize or in the future they will have heart problems and/or get cancer". lol, I am 15 pounds overweight and haven't been excercizing much in the past couple years, guess I am screwed. :shrug:
They do this for all types of diseases, not just cancer. HIV/AIDS is another big one. It reminds me of the "Bird Flu scare". Everyone avoided birds out of fear, because a break out of this disease "could wipe out most of the world's population"...and now we don't hear about it anymore.
I definitely believe early detection is a good thing and saves lives, but at the same time..sometimes I really think they go overboard with it.
Reading the nomorepanic thing on Health Anxiety was very interesting and so true.
Anyone else noticing this a lot?