Another HA case for you all...

[Farrell]

Hi all, I'm a 27 year old bloke, and I get health anxiety really badly. I've been lurking on this site for a while, but there are just so many posts that could have come straight from my own head that I thought it was about time I joined in.

I suppose I'm fortunate in that a few other members of my family get HA as well, so when it's really getting on top of me I've got someone to call and talk to about my latest worries, but even so it's nice to be among so many people with fellow feeling because I very rarely bring it up elsewhere. Occasionally when the pub conversation gets round to what people are afraid of I'll mention something about being 'a bit of a hypochondriac' and then quickly change the subject, because to be honest I feel guilty about it - I know that there are many, many people who are really ill and who deal with it much more stoically than I deal with my neuroses.

I hate it though, the fact that worries about my health just seem to switch off all the rational areas of my brain and send me into panic mode. Some of the time I can control it, but then every so often I'll notice some lump somewhere on my body that I haven't encountered before, or have a headache that goes on a bit too long, or even just read about the symptoms of something particularly nasty in the paper, and suddenly this horrible feeling of impending doom just rises up and takes over my mind, and then I can't think about ANYTHING ELSE for weeks on end. It's made me nervous just typing that. Hate it.

Anyway. Glad to be here.

[funky chick]

Hi and Farrel to NMP xx

[anxious]

Hi Farrell

and welcome to the site I have ha as well so i totally know where you are coming from,

anx x

[Lindalou64]

HELLO FARREL AND WELCOME TO THE SITE............LINDA

[Believe]

Hello Farrel,

Welcome to NMP. You will get loads of advice and make friends.
Hope to see you around.

[honeybee3939]

Hi farrel

Welcome to NMP, its lovely to see you here, im sure you will get some great advice, support and make new friends too.

Love

Andrea
xxxx

[groovygranny]

Hello Farrel to you!

Glad you're here too - because you'll get plenty of help and support from people in the same situation as yourself.

You won't regret joining - I certainly don't !!

[manmoor]

Hi Farrel,

A big warm welcome to you from another health anxiety sufferer. xx

[Pink Princess]

welcome to no more panic xx

take kare xxxxxxx

[Joe1981]

Try this:

Get a note pad or a peice of paper and sit down for a few mins and write down every symptom you had that scared the heck out of you and made your anxiety shoot up high in the past 6 months..

If your anything like me your list will be huge and you'll sit there in shock looking at that long list! You may even laugh and say "wow".

So sit down and make a list of all the symptoms that freaked you out in the past 6 months, this may snap you out of it for a bit.

Good luck, let me know how it goes..

P.S. My list was so huge! I laughed at some of the things that i thought a had and how many times i thought it was the end for me!