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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Overthinker23
Overthinker23


Hey guys. I've suffered with hypochondria my entire life, pretty cool huh. 




My main concern is that I'm having a very difficult time with my recent concerns differentiating reality from what I may or may not be making up with my additional hypochondria and ability to self inflict certain symptoms based off of what I've decided may or may not be afflicting me, lol. 




I went through a period of time where I was working a very physically stressful as well as mentally stressful job for sixty hours a week. I manage 500 employees and usually spend 10/12 hours a day invested in physical labor as well as quick stressful data anaysis. I recently hit a wall, 1.5 years into this job, where I suffered severe facial pain on one side, neck pain as well as stiff arm muscles and overall weakness through my entire body. My doctor has contributed all of this to tension and my recurring and horribly painful tmj. My heart wants to accept this analysis, but my brain is convincing me it's something more sinister (MS, fibromyalgia, etc). 




I want to just accept that the tension and stress is causing all of this, but also my hypochondria is raging out of control. Suggestions, jokes, wisdom? Any and all is appreciated

Thor2008
Thor2008
Stress and tension can cause nearly anything and everything. You just need your therapist to teach you ways to relieve the stress. Your issues will probably go away if not then go back to the doc and tell them that removing the stress did not relieve my symptoms.
arfie
arfie
I kinda miss the bad old days when "What's your sign? was a more common pick up line than "What's your dx?", but? ? ? There is allot about the 21st century which bewilders the 20th century Toxic Mom. And **that** was **before** the Corona Crowning. . . Now that my live support network has gone FaceTime the world is making less sense than ever. I don't suppose one of you caped crusaders would care to parachute in a roll of toilet paper and a dozen eggs? Your FaceTime creativity ain't gonna beat Star Wars. . .

Breathing with you, Overthinker. . . Resisting the drive to over think these unprecedented events is harder than working with a Corona Crowned therapist.

Just breathing. . . Real time. . . Streaming not necessary. . . Plenty of cyber-breathing aids available. Keeping my breaths strictly personal and outside the box. Just breathing. . .
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Actually, I'm going to share with you something that may provide you with the positive way to move forward.

The doctor told me to use the hypochondria sensations, feelings, thoughts as a tool for anxiety management. Once I started the journal writing, I was able to find ways to reduce the impact of those sensations and get in a calmer balance naturally.

For the facial pain (I know what you are referring to, and it is painful)...using the breathing and massage techniques that work to reduce the tension will give you help as you use other means to get your balance in sync again.

Best wishes as you find your way through this.
invisablefriend
invisablefriend
The timing with C virus might be bad but if you want to find out if it’s tension and stress book yourself into massage every week (maybe not possible for massages now)
Tisha0630
Tisha0630
I have the exact same symptoms plus some rib pain. My doctor tells me that when you get anxious your body will tense up without you ever realizing it. For example I always thought my body was relaxed until my doctor told me that I looked very tense. Her best way of explaining how to relax is to "go jelly". When I first did the exercise it felt weird. I had gotten so used to being tense that being relaxed felt abnormal.
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