bellab
09-05-10, 20:05
that might sound a ridiculous question! :winks:
for the past three and a half years I have seemed to have gone from being fit , healthy and not really giving a second thought to my health ( save maybe the odd cold or very very rarely a stomach upset... once a year if that) ....to just feeling unwell all the time .....
In the midst of all this I started getting panic attacks/anxiety really badly, just under a year ago, and then really badly early this year....I think its probably all tied in..
there are a couple of things which have been diagnosed, but even my GP agrees not to make me feel *this* unwell , and though they are recurring, they are not actually the things I seem to feel ill with most of the time.... the rest of the time I feel like I constantly have the flu ...am hot/cold, shakey, dizzy , nauseous.... (I know, when I write it out it sounds like anxiety...) ...just feel like I have the flu most of the time
More and more I worry about the amount of time I am unwell, time off work, social life etc... I dont worry so much that "OMG it must be something really bad" but am just frustrated at not being able to find an answer to what it is or why I feel so bad the whole time
I am having counselling...but again , not sure how it can help with this...?? :shrug: in the past counsellors have looked into the illness being as a "result" of trauma in the past, (which I would say I have resolved and I dont see how it can make me this ill) ...I dont know whether to look at it from the perspective of "this is all health anxiety, I need to stop thinking about it at all", or whether my body is expressing something emotional by being ill....or whether there is something wrong that then needs physical/medical treatments (consultants still looking into that side of it, tho have no idea what it could be...and they have ruled out anything serious (cancer etc..) )
I am writing this I guess as am currently unwell (with something diagnosed!!) but in trying to keep going ("dont give into health anxiety" says my brain) ended up going to visit a friend and feeling so unwell I could barely drive home ..... I think it was largely physical, possibly coupled with panic that I wouldnt be able to get home ....
but I guess I am at a loss with which direction to deal with it from....is this health anxiety? if there are physical things wrong but also stuff they cant pinpoint (drs have in the past put it down to stress as a possibilty) ...does it still fall into that category?
more importantly and to the point...what on earth do I do about it? its not that Im worrying about illnesses that arent there...just feeling ill all the time with no known cause (which makes me think is it emotional/anxiety/stress related?)
thanks in advance for any thoughts...
for the past three and a half years I have seemed to have gone from being fit , healthy and not really giving a second thought to my health ( save maybe the odd cold or very very rarely a stomach upset... once a year if that) ....to just feeling unwell all the time .....
In the midst of all this I started getting panic attacks/anxiety really badly, just under a year ago, and then really badly early this year....I think its probably all tied in..
there are a couple of things which have been diagnosed, but even my GP agrees not to make me feel *this* unwell , and though they are recurring, they are not actually the things I seem to feel ill with most of the time.... the rest of the time I feel like I constantly have the flu ...am hot/cold, shakey, dizzy , nauseous.... (I know, when I write it out it sounds like anxiety...) ...just feel like I have the flu most of the time
More and more I worry about the amount of time I am unwell, time off work, social life etc... I dont worry so much that "OMG it must be something really bad" but am just frustrated at not being able to find an answer to what it is or why I feel so bad the whole time
I am having counselling...but again , not sure how it can help with this...?? :shrug: in the past counsellors have looked into the illness being as a "result" of trauma in the past, (which I would say I have resolved and I dont see how it can make me this ill) ...I dont know whether to look at it from the perspective of "this is all health anxiety, I need to stop thinking about it at all", or whether my body is expressing something emotional by being ill....or whether there is something wrong that then needs physical/medical treatments (consultants still looking into that side of it, tho have no idea what it could be...and they have ruled out anything serious (cancer etc..) )
I am writing this I guess as am currently unwell (with something diagnosed!!) but in trying to keep going ("dont give into health anxiety" says my brain) ended up going to visit a friend and feeling so unwell I could barely drive home ..... I think it was largely physical, possibly coupled with panic that I wouldnt be able to get home ....
but I guess I am at a loss with which direction to deal with it from....is this health anxiety? if there are physical things wrong but also stuff they cant pinpoint (drs have in the past put it down to stress as a possibilty) ...does it still fall into that category?
more importantly and to the point...what on earth do I do about it? its not that Im worrying about illnesses that arent there...just feeling ill all the time with no known cause (which makes me think is it emotional/anxiety/stress related?)
thanks in advance for any thoughts...