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...
Currently going through some health issues. 46 yr old female. Never really had any serious physical health problems and having SERIOUS anxiety from this. Thinking I'm dying, must be cancer, etc etc. I have had ultrasound, CT with contrast and bloodwork and all clear. Doc says gastritis/ulcer (joined that forum too!). Scope is forthcoming...that's what I'm afraid of, even though everything else was cleae. Anybody else have anxiety with doctors and medical issues?
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
Yup, I get major anxiety with doctors. I do better with the medical issues, but I do believe I qualify for full doctor phobia.
I, too, get allot of digestive tract ailments from my anxiety. Plying psychotherapy tools to the anxiety seems to get me allot further than doctor treatment of the physical symptoms.
What I've learned from working in the medical field for 20 years is that everyone has these fears. There are some things we can't seem to control pertaining to our health and that makes us feel vulnerable.
I tend to only think the best until I hear the worse, and even then I would seek a 2nd opinion. There have been so many advances in healthcare these days-good help is available.
Take some deep breaths and refuse to give into fear. I like doing the "If,then" exercise. "If" this happens, "then"I'll do this, etc. Plan each step you'll take and that helps the anxiety be manageable. You've got this!