The_Walrus
03-03-09, 22:36
Hi everyone, I'm Paul, I'm 22 years old, and I'm from South East England.
I've been experiencing Health Anxiety pretty much constantly for the last 6 months, with a less serious attack of it happening a few years ago. Basically, I get horrible anxiety with the thought of death, and thinking about my consciousness ceasing to exist, and that being the end of my existence. I want to and try to believe in an afterlife, but its kind of hard in a world that seems to want to trash all your beliefs. And since there are no certanties about it, I still get anxious with the thought of it.
I also because of this am obsessed with the possibility that I will die young. I currently believe I have a lot of syptoms of various things, which I'll probably detail in another post, and sometimes it drives me crazy. I found this forum through googling a symptom (ironic, seeing as "never google your symptoms" seems to be the forum's mantra!), and it seems like it might be what I need ... I'm starting counselling this week, but from conversations I've had with my GP and a therapist, they don't seem to get it. So yeah, thought I'd just drop in here and say Hi :)
I've been experiencing Health Anxiety pretty much constantly for the last 6 months, with a less serious attack of it happening a few years ago. Basically, I get horrible anxiety with the thought of death, and thinking about my consciousness ceasing to exist, and that being the end of my existence. I want to and try to believe in an afterlife, but its kind of hard in a world that seems to want to trash all your beliefs. And since there are no certanties about it, I still get anxious with the thought of it.
I also because of this am obsessed with the possibility that I will die young. I currently believe I have a lot of syptoms of various things, which I'll probably detail in another post, and sometimes it drives me crazy. I found this forum through googling a symptom (ironic, seeing as "never google your symptoms" seems to be the forum's mantra!), and it seems like it might be what I need ... I'm starting counselling this week, but from conversations I've had with my GP and a therapist, they don't seem to get it. So yeah, thought I'd just drop in here and say Hi :)