Well I don't know your story, but I would hope family and friends wouldn't tell you simply (get over it). People don't understand anxiety and panic so they act like it's nothing. It is nothing until your the one being tormented by it. But you know you cannot let it win it's something you just have to fight.

I've been feeling like a hypocondriac for 4 months now. So they are annoyed and do tell me just to get over it. It has effected a lot of my relationships

Please understand that in their experience, saying those words often distract the usual thought pattern enough that they are able to move on.
Get hydrated, practice breathing, and find a positive word to help you balance the pattern so you can be "in the moment".
You can do this. Best wishes.

message me if you need to talk! we can share stories, you're not alone.

Im a bit of a hypochondriac too!!! lets talk!! I added you. And yes you are not alone. ;)

Same problems here - you are not alone. We are all in this together.

I'm 34 and have always been a little of a hypercondriac. But through the years since my first panic attack at 19 I've notice when big life changes and or stress it triggers my anxiety to the degree of extreme hypercondria. There has been times in my life that the extreme anxiety is at bay for a long time even years without meds and then I face a big life change and then boom it's back. Us that suffer with anxiety/panic are sensitive to change and very in tune with our body's. it's not always bad to be like this unroll it's debilitating and then we must take action and figure out what can help us individually cause what works for one. At not work for the other. I decided after a year of suffering cause I thought I could over come this without meds to get on Zoloft. I had my first child and that was a huge trigger. I had postpartum anxiety and I faught it for a year until it was effecting every part of my life. I've been on Zoloft just for about 2 weeks and it's has helped a bunch!!! I do not like to take really any kind of meds but sometimes we have to. I wanted to right this without getting too deep in every symptom or every scary thought I had to tell you that your not alone. If you need to talk I'm here

I understand totally how you feel but I had some really life threatening health scares with in the last year! I constantly have panic/antiexy attacks.. I have seen a psychiatrist and therapist.. I have tried zoloft but the side effects were horrible my doctor wants me to go back to the psychiatrist but I'm not sure if I want too.. I also was on also xanax and buspirone. Xanax was great and buspirone made me sleepy, it's a struggle everyday all day from the negative and constantly being tense until your shoulders are hurting because your always on the edge! I know exactly how you feel! I get there with prayer and my children they gets me through some of the worst days! If you ever want to talk!
Love icaretoo

Messaging you from an ER right now due to hypochondria. My mom had a stroke on Saturday and I swear now I'm having one as well. This is ridiculous. So frustrating

isn't it funny. We spend half our time wishing we were dead - and the other half terrified we might die.

The way I handled it? Just accepting the possibility of my own death. And realising you can die any how, any time, any where. If frozen poo from an aeroplane can land on you and kill you, then you can die any how, any time, any where....

Every day you're not dead just from mere external bad happenstance is a wonderful surprise bonus.

Just think of not only how many times you've skirted death so far, but your ancestors, and their ancestors. Ten million years in the making of you. Your forebears have survived ice ages and sabre tooth tigers and wars and famines and diseases. Pestilences, plagues, insurrection. They haven't drowned, they haven't suffocated, they haven't been burned for a witch.

When you really think about it, you being here at all is such an amazing stroke of luck it's really hard to take in. What are the odds on your existence? Your personal existence? All those sperm that didn't make it, all those eggs that were not you.

It's totally gobsmacking.

I think when we look at this we realise we're strong. We're really, really strong. Not just physically, but genetically. Outrageously strong.

So if you're gonna die, you're gonna die. But it's not likely. And you have survived ten million years so far.