I can relate somewhat. One of my "anxious" thoughts are fears that I have some fatal disease - cancer, heart disease, etc. I used to be obsessed with this thought, but it has lessened over the years. I had to do alot of self-talk to try and reason with myself in these times.

i cant look in the mirror for fear of seeing death in my eyes! crazy i know and i spend a lot of time trying to convince myself its not real but im struggling at the minute! God im nuts!

I have this but its not gonna happen! i use alcohol gel on my hands cos it kills germs. and unless you feel really ill then what do you have to worry about?

Sounds a little OCD to me, but I am no expert =).

if only my mind was able to rationalise i wouldnt have a problem! Yes i also thing its OCD

Yes - absolutely sounds like OCD.
And I never had any physical indicators that I was ill, but that did not stop me from thinking I had every disease that I could think of.
Sorry ems489, it is not that easy to just rationalize thoughts like this away.

thankyou for understanding JLB72.
What did you do to grt rid of it? i have had tests from the doctor and that hasnt stopped the thoughts!

It took alot of working on getting control of my anxiety issues and issues that I had to deal with in my past. I started to realize that i was obsessing over dying to try and avoid thinking about living and things that were emotionally keeping me in an unhealthy place.
I went to therapy and started challenging my way of thinking. IF I DO have cancer, thinking and panicking about it continually will not change that. I would analyze - do I have a valid reason to believe that i have this disease? Do I have any symptoms or family history of this disease? If the annswer was yes, I would go and get checked out at the doctor. IF the answer was no, then I would dig deep to find out the reason I felt like this and what I was really avoiding thinking about.
I figured out that for one - my mother sitting me down at the age of 7 and telling me that she thought I had stomach cancer did not help (she has serious issues herself!!) and then a year later sitting me down AGAIN and telling me that she was dying of cervical cancer (she wasn't)also did not help. I also discovered that I am the type of person who is always waiting for the proverbial bottom to fall out of my life. So convincing myself that I was dying all of the time was my way of preparing myself for the worst case scenario - nothing was going to take me by surprise and pull the rug out from under me. There is much more to this story than the above, but I've rattled on long enough!!!
Hope this helped a bit!

Ive read the book "From Panic to Power" by lucinda Basset and it has help me understand alot of things. dont just read the book, do everything it tells you, i pray it will help everyone as much as it has helped me. i am doing much better now, i still fear that i'm dying but i try to reason with myself.. i understand how hard it can be to convince yourself that you are fine. The brain is a very powerfull thing.

I can relate to JLB72's post when I was 6 my dad had a heart attack and I was picked up from school by a panicy crying mother and driven to the hospital and not allowed to see my dad for a time then when I was I was faced with a pale tubed and machined up ghost of my dad and he was sure he was going to die he gave me the crying good bye speech... ANYONE OUT THERE WITH ANXIETY AND KIDS DO NOT PUT YOUR KIDS THROUGH THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! From then on I have been terrrified of dying and cancer and this and that... now that I have my own son I keep it to myself but I get attacks where I'm freaked out something terrible is wrong with him... we can't spend everyday in fear of the what if's. Easier said than done but if you are everyday freaked out you are sick you're wasting every day that you ARENT sick... IF one day when you're old and grey and actually DO get something you'll feel pretty bad that you wasted all your healthy days living like you were sick.