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Hi everyone , I'm 22 and suffer very badly from anxiety and depression, I constantly think there is something wrong with me . What are everyone's symptoms with anxiety? I've got it so bad I can't watch programmes such as holby city or casualty ! It's ruining my life! I'm currently on mirtazapine to help me with my anxiety. I've been doctors today as I thought I had a urine infection but test said I was fine, but I'm convinced I'm ill, someone please tell me there like it too, I feel like a freak
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Courtney1633 yazmin48818
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This seemed to set my health related anxiety off!
It's now expanded to heart palpiltations, chest pains, shortness of breath, tinnitus, dizziness, double vision, a feeling as though somebody is putting pressure on my throat, waking up in the night panicking that my legs and arms have gone numb, loss of dexerity in my fingers, my arms heavy and numb during the daytime too recently!
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Courtney1633 yazmin48818
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you are not alone, i suffer with health anxiety too!
It started with double vision, dizziness
and because i over reacted thinking the worst (ie, brain tumour or MS) it extended to tinnitus, weak heavy arms, breathlessness, chest pains, palpiltations, i wake in the night startled afraid that my limbs have gone numb.
anxiety is a terrible thing to have as it comes with so many physical symptoms that also could be so many sinster things, but try not to worry yourself, your mind is so powerful that it can so easily create / make these symptoms worse which in turn will make your anxiety worse. it can be a vicious circle thats hard to break!
For me at the moment, i am trying to accept that my symptoms are anxiety and that they are not real, (which is the hardest part!!!!) once i can accept that they are not real symptoms and i am not dying then hopefully they should dissappear as i know i am creating them.
For example, if i go to the doctors with palpiltations and they keep asking me 'do you have chest pains, and i dont, to me it is obvious that chest pains would be bad, then a few days later subconciously i develop chest pains too!
my mind hears awful life threatening symtpoms and mimicks them! i feel very silly as i am a smart person but i am letting the subconscious part of my brain control me!
anxiety is a mental illness with physical symptoms!
i hope this helps you feel reassured!
ps. since i have accepted that my symptoms arent anything sinster to do with my health, i have gotten my symptoms less, which in turn has reassured me, hopefully i can create my own vicious circle of no symptoms and reassurance :D
if i can do it so can you, its hard but its worth it, and its worth doing so as soon as possible [smile]
have a happy healthy day xxx
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Courtney1633 yazmin48818
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i feel your pain as its started to ruin my life. im going on holiday next week, and im terrified of the flight and terrified of being there, away from any medical help and hospitals.. feels so pathetic even to say when im not having a panicky episode!
do what you need to do though! doctors dismiss anxiety as a health problem, but it is! if you need tests even just for your own peace of mind, get them! just listen to the results! if you need a stomach examination, insist that you get one, and when theres nothing wrong find peace in it!
i wanted a brain scan, i was going to go and ask for one, but i think im going to try and believe in the anxiety instead and if the symptoms go great, but if they dont i will ask for one.
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Courtney1633 yazmin48818
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im just hoping I can keep it together on my holiday!
It does sound so ridiculous but at least it's reassuring to know tier people (each other) feel the same way lol
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