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juffy28325
juffy28325

Hello everyone! 

I would like to ask, if severe health anxiety and stress can cause symptoms of disease that I read on the internet?? 

I'm obsessed with searching disease and I feel like I've got have exactly the same symptoms after reading about disease too much! It feels very real and I'm very scared!!!

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  • CJones09
    CJones09 juffy28325

    Posted

    Absolutely. When you focus on something you start manifesting and exhibiting the same symptoms. 
  • juffy28325
    juffy28325

    Posted

    I feel like I have partial seizure...it feels very real and all symptoms suits... It scares me a lot!..but it all have started after my irrational scare of epilepsy, constant googling symptoms and severe hypochondria...
  • candycakez
    candycakez juffy28325

    Posted

    It must have to! I have had terrible headaches for a month and as soon as I googled it, it said brain tumor. I was scared s**tless and some days I really think that I do but my doc and mom say I’m crazy and if I did I’d be throwing up and couldn’t talk. Then I started getting a armpit pain and I googled that and it said lymphoma. Now I’m getting a feeling that all my lymph nodes hurt. I don’t know if it’s because I read it and now I’m imagining I have it?? I don’t know but I feel a new pain everyday and think I’m dying of cancer or tumor :’( I hope I am just worried and being dramatic
  • Abby19x
    Abby19x juffy28325

    Posted

    Having health anxiety and googling things can make it so much worse!!! I’ve learnt this myself as I would convince myself the symptoms was what I had 
  • Klove80
    Klove80 juffy28325

    Posted

    Yep! Tumors, cancer, MS, all that
    • candycakez
      candycakez Klove80

      Posted

      Can I ask what symptoms you get to make you think you have all those illness? I think I have all 3 and I have terrible anxiety & pain. 

    • steviegordon
      steviegordon candycakez

      Posted

      In relation to cancer there is such a wide range of cancers that any ache, pain or twinge can make me fear the worst. As i type this message my neck hurts and i am convinced its an issue with my lymph nodes. My health anxiety also makes my muscles twitch almost constantly, which convinced me i had ALS.
  • sparklypickle
    sparklypickle juffy28325

    Posted

    The brain can manifest and shrink symptoms depending on your mental state. Not only can you give yourself the symptoms you read about but you can also take symptoms away via the placebo effect. It just depends on what you believe. Try believing
    • sparklypickle
      sparklypickle

      Posted

      Sorry didn't finish..... Try to believe that you are healthy and don't go looking for symptoms to give yourself!

  • AlbinoWithAnxie
    AlbinoWithAnxie juffy28325

    Posted

    Yes it does I’ve had health anxiety for quite sometime now and it’s awful  if you ever need to vent feel free to message me 
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