Anxiety Forum

wantofeelbetter · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 21

greetings. i will post more about myself in a bit, but for now i wanted to introduce myself. im 23, and have serious anxiety and depression. my biggest fear is i have a brain tumor, and its whats causing all my symptoms.

ive started to document my anxiety and life with it. i thought i would share it with you all. it wont let me post URL's here because im new, but here it is:

w w w. you tube. c om / wantofeelbetter

thanks for reading, and hope you all can check my videos out. we are all in this together.

-WTFB

learningtobreathe · Joined: 15 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

Dear WTFB,

Hi there, I am also new to this board, and your post struck a cord with me. I worried about this for many months as well. I had headaches that would last quite literally months, and I thought there was no question it was something serious.

My doctor said something to me that seemed to ease my worry. It may not do the same for you, but it's worth a try.

He said the following:

"Each year there are over 40 million cases of severe headaches reported at hospitals, and of those, only 7,000 are something related to a tumor. So, the statistics are working against you. But more importantly, a headache does not warrant this concern, even a bad one. There are two major warning signs that you need to remember. Having a seizure, or suddenly falling down. If you experience one of those two things, THEN we can explore things further".

It may not have remotely the same effect on you that it did for me, but for some reason this woke me up to some logic. And maybe talking to your doctor like I did (if you haven't already) will help.