mglover92
02-28-2013, 11:30 PM
I have a bad habit of googling my symptoms. Actually my first panic attack happened out of fear that I was depressed and the panic attack came RIGHT when I went to google my problem. Every since then no matter what is on my mind whether its a mental problem, a physical health problem, I google it to try and find reassurance.
Yes sometimes googling your symptoms is ok but when its a habit and you do it everyday it fucking sucks. It sucks because you may find something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with you and then you're mind finds every little past feeling, thought, or symptom and you feel like shit the rest of the day. I'm sure we can all relate.
My habit of googling has gone beyond taking "how depressed are you?" test and passing them all just to make sure im not depressed. Now keep in mind my anxiety started first as health anxiety but then transformed into this fear of going crazy, losing control, and suicide. I am none of those things but anxiety makes you "think" you are. When you google these things you are only making the anxiety stronger and its going to continue to grow like mine did. The key is to not question the thoughts and let them come and go. For us however we latch on to everything.
So maybe not googling our symptoms could help us to break the OCD part of our anxiety! Yes googling ur symptoms constantly is actually a form of OCD because you are doing in constantly to try and find reassurance when there is nothing wrong in the first place. So maybe if we break the chain our mind can calm down? Instead of looking at this craziness on the internet....whos down for the challenge? So far iv gone about 2 days.
Yes sometimes googling your symptoms is ok but when its a habit and you do it everyday it fucking sucks. It sucks because you may find something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with you and then you're mind finds every little past feeling, thought, or symptom and you feel like shit the rest of the day. I'm sure we can all relate.
My habit of googling has gone beyond taking "how depressed are you?" test and passing them all just to make sure im not depressed. Now keep in mind my anxiety started first as health anxiety but then transformed into this fear of going crazy, losing control, and suicide. I am none of those things but anxiety makes you "think" you are. When you google these things you are only making the anxiety stronger and its going to continue to grow like mine did. The key is to not question the thoughts and let them come and go. For us however we latch on to everything.
So maybe not googling our symptoms could help us to break the OCD part of our anxiety! Yes googling ur symptoms constantly is actually a form of OCD because you are doing in constantly to try and find reassurance when there is nothing wrong in the first place. So maybe if we break the chain our mind can calm down? Instead of looking at this craziness on the internet....whos down for the challenge? So far iv gone about 2 days.