can you give yourself an illness

[Longie]

hI all

does any one believe they can give themselves an illness by the power of their minds.

i have a cancer phobia and at the minute i am worrying that i have breast cancer, i keel checking myself, and my husband told me youll give yourself a lump and then youll be happy

just cant get rid of my thoughts

any ideas

love Longie

[bluebottle]

The mind is an incredible thing but even it can't give a person cancer just by thinking about it. If it could the USA military would have slapped a patent on it.

Don't worry about this, it is an impossibility.

Regards,

Blue
--
"If I never take this leap of faith I'll never know
So I'm learning to fall with no safety net to cushion the blow"

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[Longie]

hi Lucy
i have seen my gp about this last time about a year agp i think. i have come to terms with alot of my symptons being a result of my anxiety eg lump in thraot shakes fast heart etc, but then my anxiety turns into a cancer focus, have been here before but although i can see the cycle repeating itself cant seem to stop it

i know the trigger this time an article in the daily mail about gps getting a cancer diagnos wrong. i do have a mistrust in doctors because we lost a baby, while i was pregnat, and they told us all was ok but did confirm 2 days later things had gone wrong. they lied to us because the lady doing the scan wasnt allowed to tell us, without a consultant being present, and he had gone home early, so they left us until the monday
sorry to ramble think its my anger coming out
know what you mean about a sore breast mines killing me no pun intended
love Longie

[Longie]

Hi Lucy

know what you mean about medical books,after we lost Lily, i physically carried a heavy medical book with me wherever i went, didnt do much for my back
but during that time i never thought i had emotionail issue, but that is obviously not normal,

maybe i could have a brain transplant

love Jane

[FAN]

hi, im really sure you cant think yourself cancer........but the mind works in strange ways i know i have sometimes thought not sure if i feel sick then think about it......i am sick

its negative thoughts that do it they exaggerate every feeling we have so that we tell ourselves were ill until eventually we believe it

fan x

[Longie]

Lucy

sorry got distracted by my daughter, did want to say sorry about you loss too, dido you have any other healty pregnancies

love Jane

[Longie]

think thats part of my problem we didnt see lily, didnt relise you were allowed and no one offered. all this happened 10 yrs ago so hopefully things have changed, only found out about 5 yrs ago where she was taken for cremation

very sorry if this has upset anyone but when the times right you have to let yiour thoughts out
love Jane

[vernon]

Hi longie. I am very bad with health anxiety but it isn’t focused on one thing it seems to vary. Like early last yeas I had real bad stomach pains the runs sometimes with blood and felt so sick, I also lost weight. My GP sent me for some blood tests and my calcium level was high, I asked what this could be and Doc said it could be bowel cancer and referred me to a gastrologist. (This made me worry and panic like hell for months), anyway the gastrologist ordered my some tests, At this stage it was hell just getting out of the door as my nerves where shattered. It took 10 months and had chest x-rays, barium enema blood tests and a sygmoidoscopy, then went back to see the gastro specialist. I was so relieved he said all that shown was spasms of the colon, which meant IBS I was so happy it wasn’t cancer as my GP said it night be. I even told him my GP said maybe cancer of colon and he said my GP had miscalculated the blood results. So that made me lose confidence in Doctors too. Soon after this my tummy pains and bleeding had gone, he said bleeding was just due to going to toilet too much. IBS and all the tightening of the tummy/colon is due to anxiety tighten all the muscles. I still get lots of health anxieties though every time I get chest pains etc. I think feeling for lumps etc can be very bad for you too because I done it lots and you will always find a small lump somewhere which I have done and found its just a muscle or something that’s supposed to be there but we never noticed it before. Reading up on Internet and books is also bad because soon as I was told my calcium was raised I looked it up and it said it raises when cancer spreads to the bones they leak calcium, that and doc saying she though bowl cancer put me into months of real bad panic, and as always all the worry was unnecessary. I have to have eye surgery next Thursday and that fear is so great too. Its not a big operation its just to remove an obstruction from my left eye, I am registered blind and that eye has no sight now but might have after surgery. I am so afraid I will not turn up for this surgery I have been cancelling it and not turning up for 3 years now. But really want to go to take the weight of my shoulders Thursday. My fear is and I am fully convinced I will die not from the surgery but from the terrific fear I get from going there and having heart attack with fear. Really hope you feel better soon. I have been trying relaxation daily and using affirmations over and over telling myself I AM HEALTHY SRTONG AND HAVE NO FEARS. I think they work a little am just going to keep trying to tell myself I am not ill. Take care. Vernon

[Longie]

good luck vernon, i too use affermatations when i remember but heard in takes along time for them to work, only been doing them for 2 wks, and then not routinely

love Jane

[FAN]

hope you do go through with it vernon this time 3 years is a long time .....time that you could have had with sight if only you went for the surgery im not sure how big the op is but i have eye surgery a few times and they dont even put you out now they can sedate you to relax you but other than that its local aneasthetic your up and about in hours

fan x