Health Anxiety!!!! Fed up of this constant battle.

Read thru the forum. You are not alone.have you spoken to your doctor? You dont have to live this way.

What do you do when you get home. What's drawing you home. Is this behavior threatening to your job. If you like to monitor your health get some gadgets from pharmacy for reassurance and try to stay away from emergency

I swear I go through the sam thing.your not alone!

*hugs

Hi Natalie, you are not alone hun, I know how you feel, I can relate to everything you are saying.

I tend to go through period of this, but when I do, its awful to deal with, as you say every little ache or pain becomes something serious, I am always anxious to some extent and usually about health issues more than anything.

I have wasted years of my life, imagining I have every known illness there is, but, although I have conjured up all those symptoms in my head, so far thats all they were, in my head.

I have recently bought some hypnosis cd's and meditation as well, they do help to relax you, there are lots online you can download for free, a very good one by Paul Mckenna, the tv hypnotist, seems to relax me.

I am considering going to see a hypnotherapist, which may be better.

Apart from that I have no answers I comtinue to live with it, I try to get out and about as much as poss, spend time with people and not sit and dwell as I just blow everything out of proportion when on my own.

Rescue remedy helps a little when I get in a tiz, but perhaps for you it may be good to go talk to your gp, and either get some medication, or perhaps some councilling, perhaps try to find out why all this began, there may have been a trigger, talking is always good, confide in a friend or family member,

Hope that helps you to know there are pleñty of others just like you, thats why this forum exists

Good luck hun, hope you find some peace within yourself soon x

Anxiety is a normal response to something we consider threatening, it captures the way we think and prepares our body for action. However if you experience high levels of anxiety without any obvious cause, it still captures your thinking and focusses all your attention on identifying why you feel like you do. The trouble is that the anxiety does cause some fairly obvious changes in your body, your breathing speeds up, yur heart speeds up and people often become aware of these changes while they are trying to identify whats causing the anxiety. So you focus on the bodily changes and the anxiety is telling you that these sensations must represent a threat, we think of them as symptoms that we are ill. Once you think that of course the anxiety gets worse, the symptoms get worse and thats all you can really think about.

There is quite a few things that people can find helpful, these are usually based on cognitive behavioural therapies. The best is probably to arrange to see a therapist, its easier to manage these things with help. There are also lots of free self help resources on the web.

I have spoken to my GP they keep giving me SSRI which make me really sick so I can't take them. I defiantly need something I did try CBT but I think I'm to far gone it's the an obsessive thing now it's constant.

Thank you for your replies.

I'm trying to get ready for work at its all starting again.

I feel safe at home.

Natalie your perfectly fine , I know you won't believe me but whatever you feel you are fine you are just feeling desensitization , ie everything you feel is being caused but anxiety, which will not harm you .