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I struggle with really bad health anxiety and convince myself that I have cancer. For the past few months I seem the be picking up every viral infection/cold going which really makes the health anxiety worse😞 I’m sure your not meant to get ill in the summer (I live in the UK) does anyone else experience this?
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jess01821 paige21291
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I know exactly what your going through I get brain fog and convinced myself I had an infection on my brain I had a ct and blood done it all came back clear anxiety is a horrible thing it's normal to get a cold but where you have anxiety you think about it constantly
andrea_60449 paige21291
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hi, i soent 2 years of my life agonising about my health and all the different things i could have. I went through EVERY single test known to man and in the end every single peoblem I had health wise was due to the stress on my body. i had cardiac tests done cause my heart kept jumping and skipping beats etc i have all kinds of scans cause of severe woman problems, i had constant eye problems and headaches and dizziness. i thought my throat was going to close as my glands were always swollen and I was always sick for 2 years. it turns out anxiety can cause stress on your body that DOES cause physical effects and causes your immune system to be lower. now i promise you when i was told this i said straight out 'NO this will never work for me nothing will cure me' BUT i was prescribed sertraline and the cognitive behavioural therapy (look it up on youtube) and did deep breathing techniques and did 10-30 mins of mindfulness meditation every day sometimes twice a day using an app called stop, think, breath. AND after a couple of weeks i could already feel such a huge difference. and never had a panic attack in almost 2 years now. i still get waves of panic now and again but from doing mindfulness i am able to stop it at the beginning and break it down to umderstand whats causing the anxity before it reaches the panic attack stage. hope this helps
paige21291 andrea_60449
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Hiya, thanks for the reply. I have recently been prescribed sertraline also but my first thought was "this is just papering over the cracks and "it's not going to stop me from getting ill". I seem to be getting some sort of viral infection every couple of weeks and i have convinced myself that i have leukemia for the past nearly 4 months now, i feel like i'm living my worst nightmare every day. I just swear it's not normal to get il this frequently.
andrea_60449 paige21291
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paige21291 andrea_60449
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