lruggy
09-21-2015, 04:32 PM
Hi Everyone,
I hope I am posting under the right subject. I apologize if I'm not.
I am a 25 year old married female with 2 young children. I have been a stay at home Mom for 3 years and my husband has a great job and we live comfortably. I have struggled with anxiety and depression for my whole life but in 2010, watching a loved one slowly and painfully die from MS, I developed severe health anxiety. After therapy, medication and a change in lifestyle I was able to conquer it to a level I could function and live a semi-regular life. However, I have recently "relapsed" into a downward spiral. 8 months ago my cousin whom I was very close with and loved dearly died from lung cancer at 31. It was completely unexpected, little to no symptoms, and I went from eating out at restaurants and shopping with her, to sitting at her funeral in 6 weeks. Since then, it has crippled me again. However this time it is deeply affecting others, now that I have children. I obsess something is wrong with me. I am anxious, tense, afraid and certain I am dying all day long. My back hurts, I google my symptoms, and diagnose myself with lung cancer. My shoulder hurts, it's heart disease. I have slowly begun gaining weight again, I am distancing myself from those I love. I can't live like this. I obsess constantly over my symptoms. I had a c-section 8 months ago, and know I am still recovering from that, along with being anxious and panicked all day long, I feel many aches and pains. In my jaw, chest, head, back, everywhere. I get lost in my phone, sometimes crying and panicking, over what is wrong with me. I see a new counseller tomorrow that I hope can help me.
Has anyone else suffered from health anxiety? How did you treat it? Did it ever really end? :(
I am losing touch with myself again, I can feel the grounded and level headed part of me slipping away again. Hope someone has been through this before.
I hope I am posting under the right subject. I apologize if I'm not.
I am a 25 year old married female with 2 young children. I have been a stay at home Mom for 3 years and my husband has a great job and we live comfortably. I have struggled with anxiety and depression for my whole life but in 2010, watching a loved one slowly and painfully die from MS, I developed severe health anxiety. After therapy, medication and a change in lifestyle I was able to conquer it to a level I could function and live a semi-regular life. However, I have recently "relapsed" into a downward spiral. 8 months ago my cousin whom I was very close with and loved dearly died from lung cancer at 31. It was completely unexpected, little to no symptoms, and I went from eating out at restaurants and shopping with her, to sitting at her funeral in 6 weeks. Since then, it has crippled me again. However this time it is deeply affecting others, now that I have children. I obsess something is wrong with me. I am anxious, tense, afraid and certain I am dying all day long. My back hurts, I google my symptoms, and diagnose myself with lung cancer. My shoulder hurts, it's heart disease. I have slowly begun gaining weight again, I am distancing myself from those I love. I can't live like this. I obsess constantly over my symptoms. I had a c-section 8 months ago, and know I am still recovering from that, along with being anxious and panicked all day long, I feel many aches and pains. In my jaw, chest, head, back, everywhere. I get lost in my phone, sometimes crying and panicking, over what is wrong with me. I see a new counseller tomorrow that I hope can help me.
Has anyone else suffered from health anxiety? How did you treat it? Did it ever really end? :(
I am losing touch with myself again, I can feel the grounded and level headed part of me slipping away again. Hope someone has been through this before.