
Anxiety Support Group
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...
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.
What did you do to grt rid of it? i have had tests from the doctor and that hasnt stopped the thoughts!
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!