Re: Severe health anxiety
Kimbles,
I'm sorry you are experiencing this right now.
Our anxiety does a tricky little thing where it will seek ways to confirm its existence. You've been worrying about your kids getting sick because they've been around other kids. That's extremely logical and rational as kids share one another's germs. Your anxiety however is now telling you that you were right and that something worse is going to happen. At the end of the day, these thoughts are simply words in your mind. They are not real. You say you can't control your thought process but that isn't true. It just takes practice to recognize that you are having words come into your mind that you are creating a story for. When you notice that happening, I recommend taking five deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth and then say to yourself, "I'm having thoughts that ___________. These are just words and are not real." This will help you defuse your thinking from what is actually happening.
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.