Extreme health anxiety with fear of seizure
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Hello,
tonight, i was tossing and turning and decide to get up and try to relax, and then all of a sudden, i felt this feeling of fear and worry and i felt like i was losing control of my body. everytime i felt like i was getting better, it would creep back up into my thoughts that im not fine and something terrible is happening. i almost drove myself to the hospital.
over the past year or so i have battled with extreme worry over my health, mainly heart attacks and seizures. i have seen 5 heart doctors & all said my heart is fine, however i will not allow myself to go to a neurologist because i have thrown so much money at heart doctors that i feel like i don't need to go get my brain scanned because its most likely anxiety.
i am so terrified of having a seizure that i find myself asking people close to me if they think i am fine or if they think this is going to happen to me, etc. it isn't until after they have talked with me and tried to calm me down that i somewhat believe them. i have never had a seizure, but when i look it up, it says feeling of impending doom and deja vu, which i have both.
i am too scared to take medication for anxiety, because i fear it will give me a seizure.
do yall have any advice?
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jan34534 jacob67251
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what you are going through with the impending doom, déjà vu, etc. sounds exactly like symptoms of unmanaged anxiety and stress. You wouldn’t believe how many people on this site also have those things going on related to anxiety and stress. Including myself. People with unmanaged anxiety have negative scary thoughts pouring through their mind and they feel like something horrible is going to happen when in fact everything is OK. Déjà vu can happen with anxiety so don’t go to the worst case scenario with all of this.
i’ve had anxiety for many years and have had every sensation you can think of. Including all of the physical sensations, déjà vu, panic, fear of impending doom, etc.
I would say you would benefit from speaking with a counselor on a regular basis. A counselor could help you understand what goes on with anxiety and help you manage it. I speak with a counselor virtually and it works great! this is very difficult to try to manage alone.
take one day at a time. And get that support. Hope you feel better soon
sasical72 jacob67251
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Hi Jacob
I hear ya!
When my health anxiety was out of control I kept having this all the time too, I even developed a tic because I used to self test by pulling my tongue out and looking in the mirror because I had the idea (idk why) that this proved or disproved a stroke.
For me what helped me a lot was to keep repeating to myself "if I can calm down by people telling me there is nothing wrong, then it has to be anxiety" and kept constantly reminding myself of all the times I "was sure" that something was happening to me and later I had felt ok.
Plus in the end after A LOT and A LOT of fighting I somehow surrendered to the fact that what will be will be and that by panicking all day I'm not going to avoid it (there is a lot of wanting to control in health anxiety). Quite on the contrary, panic doesn't help our health.
This took a lot of mental work and I still have day when I wobble a bit, but at least I can cope with life now.
Oh and exercise!! great help!
I hope you get some relief soon!