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...
Hey ya'll -
So I'm 29 and when I struggled with health anxiety a lot from 14-19 (my best friend died of cancer at 14 and I guess it freaked me out). I haven't stuggled much with health anxiety since then but the last week has been horrible. My mother in-law committed suicide a couple months ago and I guess it's trigged me again.
So basically for like a week I've felt a lump in my throat and noticed one of tonsils swollen. Of course I went to to Dr. Google last night and it killed me. I ended up thinking I have tonsil cancer. I went to my GP tonight - he looked at my throat and said it's definitely not cancer. He was really reassuring. He gave me some antibiotics said my nose was inflammed and despite not really feeling sick I have some post nasal drip causing my throat feeling.
Despite all that I'm still freaked out my lump in my throat feeling. At this point idk if I'm just being hyper aware of the feeling in my throat and making it worse. I don't have any trouble breathing or anything - it's just freaking me out.
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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...
You've taken the important first step in writing out the thoughts.
Stay hydrated.
Practice staying in the moment focus to help you move forward.
Best wishes in feeling better.
Health anxiety is not a big deal in my personal psychobaggage car, but my lengthy list of other anxieties sure do produce allot of physical symptoms that shift around as fast as my anxiety does. I'm okay with the stigmatic claim that those symptoms are, "All in my head." Guess where I keep my brain and I've heard rumors that the brain is the most powerful organ in the body. Mixed signals there will be felt throughout the entire system. "Anxiety" qualifies as a mixed signal in the Arf School of Communications.
I doesn't know if that experience has anything to do with yours, or not. I mostly wanted to welcome you aboard. Hope you find supportive companionship here while you sort your own.