Lunavi9
10-18-2011, 08:23 PM
Hello fellow anxiety sufferers, I am a 21 year old college student who works at a minimum wage hotel restaurant on the side.
I read some posts in this forum and being a sufferer of awful anxiety lately, I though joining and sharing experiences with those who understand would be nice.
Well, I have had hypochondria for a very long time, my earliest memory was when I was a child of about maybe 7 or 8 and for no reason I fel my breathing go funny and I ended up crying to my parents who assured me everything was alright. This was fine for a while, until a couple of years later there was a meningitis scare going around and of course I freaked out and would feel random pains in the sides of my head, thinking the worst of course. My mum then assured me I had been vaccinated against it and then I felt dumb.
I was always a fairly strong willed individual in ways where my whole life, where loads of people around me would get lots of colds, flu's and everything in between, I would get something maybe once a year and I felt glad about this fact. I would go on how others would complain about having minor ailments and that it was exaggerated. My hypochondria was gone for many years, with maybe the odd scare here and there but nothing major. Until the beginning of this year. A distant cousin died suddenly of a brain heamorrhage and since then, my anxiety has never stopped. I would feel odd pains and sensations in my head and think I was getting one and over the summer my job was very busy, stressful, tiring and laborious and it really didn't help. I was up early and I was afraid to go to sleep.
Now I have developed PVC's and I have recently seen the doctor about them because I simply cannot deal with them anymore. I feel as if my anxiety is growing more and more everyday, get more frequent and I can't count how many times I have cried because I am afraid I won't have a future with the man that I hope to marry in a few short years.
Thanks for reading.
I read some posts in this forum and being a sufferer of awful anxiety lately, I though joining and sharing experiences with those who understand would be nice.
Well, I have had hypochondria for a very long time, my earliest memory was when I was a child of about maybe 7 or 8 and for no reason I fel my breathing go funny and I ended up crying to my parents who assured me everything was alright. This was fine for a while, until a couple of years later there was a meningitis scare going around and of course I freaked out and would feel random pains in the sides of my head, thinking the worst of course. My mum then assured me I had been vaccinated against it and then I felt dumb.
I was always a fairly strong willed individual in ways where my whole life, where loads of people around me would get lots of colds, flu's and everything in between, I would get something maybe once a year and I felt glad about this fact. I would go on how others would complain about having minor ailments and that it was exaggerated. My hypochondria was gone for many years, with maybe the odd scare here and there but nothing major. Until the beginning of this year. A distant cousin died suddenly of a brain heamorrhage and since then, my anxiety has never stopped. I would feel odd pains and sensations in my head and think I was getting one and over the summer my job was very busy, stressful, tiring and laborious and it really didn't help. I was up early and I was afraid to go to sleep.
Now I have developed PVC's and I have recently seen the doctor about them because I simply cannot deal with them anymore. I feel as if my anxiety is growing more and more everyday, get more frequent and I can't count how many times I have cried because I am afraid I won't have a future with the man that I hope to marry in a few short years.
Thanks for reading.