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    Smile Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Thank you Pip for this. I am all alone right now and consulting Dr Google which has made my symptoms worse and my chest constricted. I'm going to take your advice and go visit my parents. X

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Brightened my morning thanks!

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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.

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Quote Originally Posted by Pipkin View Post
    As anxiety sufferers, we are incredibly strong people. You have to be strong to have made it so far (and so far into this post). Find a little more strength and take some positive action. This may be some of what I've written or something completely different. It doesn't matter, just take some positive steps and you will see things improve.
    All the best
    Pip
    Really great OP, many thanks, just what I needed to read!
    Chris

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    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.

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Pipkin...great post. I suffer with severe anxiety when I go abroad , I have gone to Spain & left within 24 hrs due to anxiety attack , any help out there as to how to overcome this debilitating pain

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Your words are perfect, thank you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    Sound advice Pip. A great post which people will find extremely helpful and comforting.

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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    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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    Re: Suffering from Health Anxiety at the moment? Read this..

    I’ve never read this before, it was good.


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