Distract yourself however you can. I can't because I am worried about every symptom, pain and ache.
Distract yourself however you can. I can't because I am worried about every symptom, pain and ache.
#4 severe ask do I need to go a&e. my parents would say no.
Thank you for such a great post. I suffer every day and every day I'm trying to do a little bit more. I'm trying not to go down the tablet route and trying to do it mentally. Like you say trying to keep busy is the key thing.
I am still suffering from my heallth anxiety, hitting breaking point and I think I got something serious wrong with me with aches and pains more and more deeper, I got some adult colouring books, still attending meetings, keep thinking every symptom is the big c,
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I am currently in the worst mental knot I've ever been in. I have health anxiety over my mental health, specifically in my belief that anti depressants that I have taken for years to 'help' me have actually just damaged me by giving me anhedonia, tinnitus hugely increased depression, unresponsive mood, depersonalisation, confusion, brain fog, and UNBELIEVABLE ANXIETY. Sometimes it literally feels like my brain is swimming in a vat of cortisol. The problem is, is that I genuinely think that they have made things worse (anti depressants only work for 40-60% of people and eventually stop working for most) and its snowballed because now I can't take them and I feel like I'm in withdrawal, which is going to take me YEARS to recover from. I'm now obsessed with the idea of getting ECT/ a lobotomy /DBS/rTMS and spend almost every waking moment thinking about ECT /lobotomies/DBS/rTMS researching it or thinking about anhedonia and researching it. I have severe depersonalisation and moods are highly erratic.
Just came across this now. I've had health anxiety for years and sometimes it gets worse than others. Going through an anxious period at the moment, so will save this for future reference. Thank you.
Your words are perfect, thank you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Sound advice Pip. A great post which people will find extremely helpful and comforting.
A great post that I come back to read when I start to spiral. One things I've learned is that the more you Google, the more unnecessary health information you put in your head. Then, when you get a symptom you have a database in your brain to draw from past Google searches. So even if you don't Google at the time, your prior knowledge works against you to fuel your anxiety.
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