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Googling Symptoms is driving me INSANE

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heather1006366
heather1006366

I'm 16 and I've always had anxiety, about a year and a half ago I started feeling physical symptoms of anxiety. I've googled every symptom I felt and I've pretty much diagnosed my self with every disease and cancer in the world. Do you guys have any advice on trying to help me stop googling my symptoms? Every time I google my symptoms, it just makes them worse & prolongs the pain. 

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  • jan34534
    jan34534 heather1006366

    Posted

    Heather, you have a choice.

    Either let fear and negativity take you over and live your life feeling miserable.

    Or, Take control of your life, stop googling, and get going on living your life in a more positive, productive way. 

    Physical symptoms of anxiety will not hurt you.  They are telling you that you have too much stress in your life.  The real problem is unmanaged anxiety which causes symptoms.

    I had numerous symptoms in my twenties of anxiety. I finally realized how much stress and anxiety I had and took measures to calm myself down, stopped fighting negative thoughts, took care of myself by exercise, eating healthy, both builds up the immune system to fight stress.  

    I listened to great audio meditations on you tube for anxiety, depression, sleep, etc 

    I still do this daily. 

    You can take any symptom and it can be found in almost any condition, so googling symptoms will only scare you for no reason!  

    Believe me, I have been going through this for many years and negative thoughts serve no good purpose. They bring you down and can seriously affect your mental and physical health.  

    Its time to take care of yourself.

    Go out and do something that makes you smile and laugh.

    Get active.

    Get counseling for anxiety 

    Listen to meditations 

    You can do it 

    🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

    • heather1006366
      heather1006366 jan34534

      Posted

      wow that honestly helped me a lot, what you said was really eye opening to me. I'm going to try my best to stop googling my symptoms so much, it brings me down and I hate it. I know the physical symptoms won't hurt me but they sure do stress me out when I google them. I have to learn to lay back on everything. Thanks for your awesome comments, they really helped, I appreciate it very much??

  • AnxietyWithOCD
    AnxietyWithOCD heather1006366

    Posted

    I do that too! Googling is called reassurance and it makes you feel better for a second (the initial feeling of trying to find out about it) but it feeds a nasty cycle and trains your brain to keep looking for more and more reassurance. It sucks but you actually just have to not seek reassurance and live with the uncertainty. Easier said than done. My advice is find a therapist focusing on anxiety and CBT.
    • heather1006366
      heather1006366 AnxietyWithOCD

      Posted

      Thank you so much for this! It started with googling symptom every month and now it's turned hourly. I'm constantly searching for reassurance and I shouldn't do that because google brings up the worst of symptoms. 

    • borderriever
      borderriever AnxietyWithOCD

      Posted

      Anxiety

      You have your own determination, I would not look at sites that can cause harm.

      You need to move on, you are making your Anxiety worse, concentrate on getting yourself settled

      BOB

  • Ashantiii
    Ashantiii heather1006366

    Posted

    What kind of physical symptoms? Don't search stuff on google, trust me.

    • heather1006366
      heather1006366 Ashantiii

      Posted

      I've had tons of anxiety physical symptoms like, aches & pains, bloating, constipation, headaches, chest tightness, tenison in muscles, stomach aches, neck pain, arm pain, nausea, dizziness, foggy brain, and the list goes on and on. Googling symptoms has become a MAJOR habit of mine that I need to quit immediately because it's doing me more harm than good at this point.

  • sheena0901
    sheena0901 heather1006366

    Posted

    Heather,

    I’m 32 and did exactly the same thing. It’s hard to tell u how to feel because I don’t know how to feel.

  • borderriever
    borderriever heather1006366

    Posted

    Heather

    If is is causing you problems, stop googling. To be honest if something upsets and you why do it, crazy.!!!!!

    Take the app off your computer and change your Server Googling health matters can make your feel worse and make you neurotic

    BOB

  • kennedy_61910
    kennedy_61910 heather1006366

    Posted

    Hi heather. I’m 18 with the same problem as you. Google is our worst enemy! We use it to try and find some reassurance or an answer to what we are feeling but really it just drives us mad! What helped me a bit is that every time I feel I just have to Google, I add “anxiety” to the end of whatever I am googling and loads of things will come up and assure me that whatever I’m feeling is not serious and is just a part of having anxiety. Hope this helps!!
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