allergyphobia
18-10-10, 12:31
I'm at work today and have pretty much spent the whole morning googling about a latex allergy. I get really bad excema and before when i have put on a latex glove it has irritated my skin slightly. However, i have been to the dentist many a time and I believe they use latex gloves but have never had a reaction to anything there, nor had a reaction to anything else.
But now, through googling and my crazed mind I have blown up my reaction to an unmeasurable size. I can't even remember the last time I came into contact with latex and at the time of getting a rash it didn't even bother me. Now i have googled and latex is in everything. People use latex gloves to handle food. the dentist, the doctors, the hairdressers, latex in your shoes, in your mousemat, EVERYWHERE. i have wound myself up so badly, i just wish i could stop this googling it is almost like an obsession, and then all i want to do is get the information out of my head. :scared15:
what is this fixation i have to fixate on something and then get so much negative information about it i wind myself up so much. i feel so low and anxious now and i am scared to eat lunch and i just feel so pathetic, i am so terrified yet full of such self-loathing.:nonono:
i am 23 and i am wasting my time and my life, i am considering hypnotherapy to break the cycle of these phobias but because of my oral allergy syndrome i am getting referred to an allergist anyway and i am hoping this will turn the thoughts into facts and i can get definite answers which will stop me doing my own "research". :doh:
sorry for the moan i just feel really upset today, and really scared.
:wacko:
But now, through googling and my crazed mind I have blown up my reaction to an unmeasurable size. I can't even remember the last time I came into contact with latex and at the time of getting a rash it didn't even bother me. Now i have googled and latex is in everything. People use latex gloves to handle food. the dentist, the doctors, the hairdressers, latex in your shoes, in your mousemat, EVERYWHERE. i have wound myself up so badly, i just wish i could stop this googling it is almost like an obsession, and then all i want to do is get the information out of my head. :scared15:
what is this fixation i have to fixate on something and then get so much negative information about it i wind myself up so much. i feel so low and anxious now and i am scared to eat lunch and i just feel so pathetic, i am so terrified yet full of such self-loathing.:nonono:
i am 23 and i am wasting my time and my life, i am considering hypnotherapy to break the cycle of these phobias but because of my oral allergy syndrome i am getting referred to an allergist anyway and i am hoping this will turn the thoughts into facts and i can get definite answers which will stop me doing my own "research". :doh:
sorry for the moan i just feel really upset today, and really scared.
:wacko: