Re: Worrying without Symptoms
Hypervigilance is often a key component of anxiety disorders, travel girl. When you’re hypervigilant, you feel you can’t relax because if you did, the “bad thing”--in this case, cancer or some other life-threatening condition-- would happen. The bad thing takes on epic, almost monstrous dimensions in your thinking. As a consequence, you become paralyzed with fear of the bad thing because it seems insurmountable. Now, the fear is unbearable, but to NOT have the fear means that you won’t be prepared, so the fear seems preferable to not being prepared. It’s a no-win situation, isn’t it?
Here’s the thing, though. As a cancer survivor, I can tell you that all you can do is recognize that cancer is a possibility for everyone. No-one is immune. And if that happens--IF--you’ll be as prepared as you can be.
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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain~Vivian Greene