Health Anxiety is Taking Over My Life

I know how you feel, and it's a deeply horrible feeling. if you would like to message me personally, I think it would be nice to be able to reach out to eachother and get reassurance when we need it:) no pressure! and I'm so sorry you have to deal with those thoughts:( not a lot of people understand how truly debilitating they are sometimes

Prayers 💕

Yes same here, its like the moment I open my eyes in the morning health anxiety starts right up. Any small change or feeling in my body send my thoughts spiraling out of control into a panic attack. This kind of anxiety just started up for me in February, and it's been a very rough time every since.. constant EMT calls, ER visits. It's horrible.

Sameeeeeeee 😥

@cece7 that is really good advice in my opinion. I have only been struggling with my health anxiety for about 6 months now,but I have some mantras that I tell myself along with guided breathing with brown noise on YouTube. I pop in my headphones talk myself through it out loud and then breathe. I also sometimes set a timer because when I spiral like that my sense of time is distorted. I also find that if I move my body rather than just sit in a tight ball it helps work off some off the adrenaline and cortisol that comes from the anxiety. I'm still working through it I will have a good couple days,and then I will get a weird chest pain and convince myself I'm having a heart attack.. it is a process. Good luck.

I struggle with it a lot too. Have you tried medicine for it? I struggle with taking medication because of my anxiety but it got so bad I was desperate enough to try it and am so thankful I did. I don’t think that I have deadly conditions everyday anymore and those spiraling thoughts are much more tame now that I can stop them before they make me feel out of control. It also helps the symptoms that start those thoughts like racing heart and feeling like my throat was closing or things like that