Mind playing tricks on you!

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Hey guys I was wondering if anxiety can cause you mind to play tricks on you ? as in thinking you have something or feeling a certain type of way 

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    For an example i have been really scared I have a brain tumor and I keep on thinking I'm having a partial seizure and de ja vu but I think I'm making my self feel this way because it's constantly on my mind !
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      I know exactly how you feel I felt like inexperienced a seizure I felt really odd for a few seconds like my body had shut down I've had many around 7 in one month but they stopped as soon as i got therapy but I still feel like I have them and yeah your mind messes with you in big ways
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    Hi Joe, the mind is a very powerful thing and anxiety a very insidious condition, it will play tricks and make you think alsorts, you must learn to rationalise and deal with your anxiety.

    Anxiety symptoms are wide and varied and can make you believe that what is a normal sensation be something catastrophic when it's just your anxiety scaring you into thinking that way.

    Dont allow it, you don't have a brain tumour your not having a seizure, it's anxiety causing those symptoms and your overactive anxious mind catastrophising it.

    Your ok my friend, just suffering from health anxiety that's all you need to get treated by your GP and CBT. Neil 

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      Thank you my friend really helped me I've just been so stressed out lately about all of this that I don't feel like the old me I mean this all happened so fast and I know it's anxiety because it started off with me worrying I had stomach cancer and it started messing with my mind one day when I woke up 
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      Constantly feeling like I have a brain tumor and seizures 
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    Hiya joe

    For the last 5 months ive been going threw a mental battle with anxiety which has lead to depression, ive been with a therapist for a while now and am getting a lot better, this all started when i was in spain with friends, 1 night i got very drunk and dont remember much of the night and then in the morning i convinved myself i had cheated on my girlfriend who i love dearly, few weeks later after thinking about it everyday and getting very down about it i went out again with friends and woke up with the same thought but this time it was a lot more powerful and i started picturing myself cheating and this then resulted in me not eating for 3 days and forced to get help! always nice to talk about it with people who suffer from anxiety aswell, please reply thank you

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