Re: Health Anxiety is relentless
Originally Posted by
flatterycat
Nora - you speak so much sense and I wish I could be like you.
Hasn't always been the case FC. I've had to work very hard to get to where I am with health anxiety. I have 47 years of HA experience - including a breakdown. My point is that I overcame all of this to get to a better place where I am more rational about my health, but as I keep saying it is work in progress..
My HA is thinking that the results are in but she didnÂ’t want to tell me they were abnormal.
If they were back and abnormal you probably would have heard by now regardless of whether you have a telephone appointment booked next week..
I just want them to be normal so I can carry on and not be feeling like this.
That's not how it works with HA..
But then, I question whether I would and how soon it would be until IÂ’m worrying about something else
And this is why..
Normal test results bring short-term comfort to a long-term problem. It's therapy you need in order to challenge your thinking. It's not realistic to expect there never to be any issues when we enter into middle-age but these are generally minor issues which are corrected or easily managed. Having HA we tend to bypass 'minor' and go straight to terminal illness..
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