Re: Leaking CSF?
Duchesskitty,
There are a few lines in your post that should help ground you. "My partner says I'm being ridiculous as I have had a bit of a sniffle/head cold and sinus pain." This is your first indicator that it's nothing sinister. I've had plenty of colds that I thought were cancer and then I grounded myself in reality and realized that I was in fact being ridiculous. "I also don't really have a headache though my sinus ache so maybe it's just a bug?!" Here you are attempting to ground yourself. Keep going with the self talk and rational thinking. "My anxious brain tells me otherwise." Again, a very rational thought. You realize your brain is telling a false narrative.
You have the skills to ground yourself and realize you are doing OK. You went off course when you googled and now you allowed your brain to hijack your thinking and create a story that isn't remotely true. Flip the story and keep going down the rational path which you can certainly go down.
Best Wishes.
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I asked myself one day, "What if I actually don't have cancer? What if I'm not really dying? Then surely I'm alive and should be living."
Not a doctor or a psychologist, just a guy who's been to a lot of them.