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Health anxiety is so bad, very depressed and need help!

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jennifer85396
jennifer85396

I am a 48 year old stay at home Mom, I have two children 13 and 7.  The love of my life.  I am home all day from 9 to 3.  I have alway had OCD and diagnosed with Hypocondriysis.  Last year was my stomach, I have IBS, then my heart, all fine, now it's my neck and head.  Gets me very depressed, everyone keeps telling me that I don't have enough to keep me buse mentally and physically.  Folding laundry, cleaning and cooking is not that mentally stimulating.  A lot of family problems and deaths happened in 2014 very upsetting things.  I feel like I am protecting myself from thinking about things that upset me, by focusing on any little thing that hurts me as a distraction.  My neck feels tight and achy and hurts, pain radiates up the back of my skull into my temples and eyes.  I have read this is tension headaches and muscle spasms from my neck.  But I am afraid to move, because if it feels better but then starts to hurt I have a panic attack.  I get scared to death I will spend my life in chronic pain with no answers.  Then who will care for my family, I am living terrified to live.  This is just horrible, can someone please help me.  Went back on Nortriptyline and it seems to be helping a bit, but I am still fixated...=((

 

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  • alexandra64765
    alexandra64765 jennifer85396

    Posted

    Hey I have suffered with anxiety and panic attacks for the last 4 years on and off I am 33 and this started when suffered a miscarriage I get tense in shoulder and arm and I can't tell myself Its muscle tension and that I

    am going die instead from cancer my mum died from cancer ten years

    ago and only explanation to me is I'm dying and going to lose my

    husband it got bad recently as started drinking alcohol first thing in

    morning and smoking weed to fall back to sleep to forget about my

    problems and lost my job because it was taking over my life my Dr has

    put me on trazadone at beginning of Dec and no longer drink or smoke I wake up feeling on edge in morning and then get tense in arm and think

    the worst feel like I am going and am seeing counsellor

    • jennifer85396
      jennifer85396 alexandra64765

      Posted

      Hello, thank you for your reply..I have many friends that have suffered a miscarriage.  It is aweful and I am so sorry you went through that.  My Mother died of cancer 10 years ago also.  I know we have to face out fears, but its very very hard.  I hope the cousellor can help you, I myselft have started seeing a therapist. I only went twice but I will keep going.  We have to fight this, and this site will help us through.  God Bless!!

       

  • alexandra64765
    alexandra64765 jennifer85396

    Posted

    Do u think I should be scared of being ill I sit there and tell myself Its

    muscle tension but then I think what if I'm dying and its taken over !

    • jennifer85396
      jennifer85396 alexandra64765

      Posted

      I do the same thing, in my heart I know its not life threatening, but the OCD is so strong that it wins.  We have to force ourselves to live and do things that make us happy.  We have the power to overcome this, but its a lot of work.

       

  • MK5460
    MK5460 jennifer85396

    Posted

    jennifer85396 like I said many here on this can relate to each other. We ALL have many diagnosis's or one it doesn't matter because we share mental & physical ills
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