fightingmyself
27-10-10, 18:17
I don't know if anyone will find this useful, but I did it to help me decide whether to check a 'symptom'. I've changed it so that hopefully it might apply to any symptom. Please add your own tips, as I need as much help as anyone
For checking
* If check goes how I want it to, then it might put my mind at ease
Against Checking
* If check doesn't satisfy me, it will definately make me alot worse
* Even if check goes well, it might still not satisfy me later on, it didn't yesterday, as I still rechecked X times
* I've been repeatedly and consistantly wrong in the past
* Even if symptom there, it could be due to something simple and harmless
* Are you sure you know what you are checking? It takes seconds to get in a panic, an age to get out of it
* Proper tests use microscopes in labs etc, have you got the right equipment?
* Are self checks the same as a Drs check? Does a Dr spend hours at a time poking, prodding, staring at your problem, or are they able to come to a conclusion in virtually seconds?
* you can usually find something 'of interest' wherever you check if you check long enough
* Even after checkin X times yesterday, I wasn't sure of what I saw
* I might have always had this thing, and so might everyone else I just never put it under a spotlight
* I could check, find nothing untoward, and still have a problem - you cant prove a negative
* I could check, find something and get freaked out, even though totally innocent due to health anxiety
For checking
* If check goes how I want it to, then it might put my mind at ease
Against Checking
* If check doesn't satisfy me, it will definately make me alot worse
* Even if check goes well, it might still not satisfy me later on, it didn't yesterday, as I still rechecked X times
* I've been repeatedly and consistantly wrong in the past
* Even if symptom there, it could be due to something simple and harmless
* Are you sure you know what you are checking? It takes seconds to get in a panic, an age to get out of it
* Proper tests use microscopes in labs etc, have you got the right equipment?
* Are self checks the same as a Drs check? Does a Dr spend hours at a time poking, prodding, staring at your problem, or are they able to come to a conclusion in virtually seconds?
* you can usually find something 'of interest' wherever you check if you check long enough
* Even after checkin X times yesterday, I wasn't sure of what I saw
* I might have always had this thing, and so might everyone else I just never put it under a spotlight
* I could check, find nothing untoward, and still have a problem - you cant prove a negative
* I could check, find something and get freaked out, even though totally innocent due to health anxiety