I'm so confused
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darren84 Guest
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depending on your age and overall health and life style i highly doubt you had a stroke. i always used to think my left eye was higher than my left( it is but not due to stroke. no body is perfect , ive been told this is common but most people dont notice it but people with anxiety/ health anxiety do as we pick up on every little thing.
Guest darren84
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I should have also mentioned that my mother in law passed away with a sudden stroke right before all of this started. I don't understand why I still feel so worried and scared when I know that everything is pointing to health anxiety. why am I still so scared if I know what it is....
darren84 Guest
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its because you have convinced your brain that it will happen to you and the viscous circle has started. i to suffer from health anxiety and it used to be really servere to the point i have been sectioned twice.
may i ask why you have become so scared of this?
Guest darren84
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I guess it because I've never lost any one so close before. I really don't know why. She was well and then she just woke up one morning and couldn't move. By the next morning she died. I really don't know why I feel like it's happening to me or why I'm so scared. I just want it to stop.
Guest darren84
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every single thing feels like it's a symptom. from a headache to a tingle and I'm not sure if my leg hurts or if it only hurts cuz I'm scared. It looks like my right side now and I..... i really just want to stop feeling this way. my family is under playing it and they don't want to take me to a doctor. I really feel like I don't know what to do. any advice on how to get it out of my head? I even feel like I'm tying words up. But everyone says no.... I don't know.
darren84 Guest
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my grandad died of a stroke last november so i know how you feel. my family always underplayed this to.
it is a real condition and a scary one to.
i was and still am at times like this since i was about 19 years old. my main one was i always convinced i had bowel cancer . my behaviour got very wired with self checking , googling all the time, exepting i was dying and refusing to eat of drink etc......
go and see the doctor and tell her/him what your going through. if you dont get this managed its going to get a lot worse and lot harder to get under control. im not trying to scare you but its the reality of it. trust me though you havent had a stroke and tying words is just the anxiety.
Guest darren84
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you ha e no idea how good it is to read this. i felt like i was going crazy! feeling like I'm gona die all the time. physically feeling like i have these symptoms. i really want to go see a doctor but im so afraid that theyll say that i am having a stroke if that makes sense. i feel as if i accept that this is anxiety and forget about it, the bad things that im worried about WILL happen. ur really easy to talk to. thank you so much. 😃
Guest darren84
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ive become so consumed with this. i sit around all day googling, checking my face in my phone camera, making sure my arms and legs are not falling. its really frustrating but i cant help but do it. itll go away right? im not dying right?
darren84 Guest
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no your not dying even though you have convinced yourself you are or you have some serious condition. what you are experiencing is classic symptoms among us health anxiety sufferers. we try and seek reasurence about everything off family , doctors etc.... but it never works. the goal is to convince yourself that it is you doing it to yourself. it took me many years to train myself the best i could because i let the fear and the thoughts rule me instead of ruling it.
it becomes very exhausting mentally and you really overwork the brain. you manifest symptoms that are not there but you think its happening and its a vicious circle thats so hard to break.
you think something is wrong.
you panic
you self monitor
you google
you panic again because google gives worse case senario
the anxiety gets worse.
you then notice another problem and now you have 2 problems and never ending circle starts again.
dont google anything even though your telling yourself to. you will drive yourself nuts.
Guest darren84
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I have driven myself nutz with Google lol. I refuse to Google anything again. But I must say tho that at least Google led me to this site. I really just want to stop feeling this way. my family members are being really horrible about it saying that I want to feel this way. smh. how could I possibly WANT to feel this way. thank you for the reassurance by the way.
Guest
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funny enough I googled five minutes before I posted my reply.
darren84 Guest
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nobody who has ever felt this way will understand how it feels so dont listen to any negativity, even off family.
go to the doctors and get the help started.
if you need any help or advice on this condition feel free to meesage me
darren84
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what is it you actually google?
Guest darren84
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thank you so much. I will. 😃
Guest darren84
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I googled stuff like what stroke face looks like and can your body feel symptoms because of anxiety etc.