Just relax just a cold and it will pass. No it has been a cold winter and sometimes we get sick alot. My mom always use to tell me if you have something and it is not getting worst then it is nothing to worry about.

I hear you. If you look at my posts. I have been doing very well, then I got a bad cold. And boom my anxiety came back. I know it is just a bad cold but like you I feel nervous about it.
I have been telling myself to treat the symptoms and this is only temporary. It will pass.

I get that way when I am sick, but haven't been sick in about 6 months. I take TONS of Vitamin C, extra vitamin D, a daily multi, zinc, fish oil, and detox with Diatomaceous earth. If you can't do those things, at least try the C and D and see if you start feeling better. Good luck! :)

Just relax, i've noticed as soon as i'm stressed or worried i come up with flu like symtoms so the more i worry the more i feel unwell

Anxiety can do a real number on your immune system, so it makes sense that you may get sick more often. Take some zinc and vitamin c to help bolster your immune system.

You may find The Panic Attacks Workbook by David Carbonell useful in dealing with your health anxieties. It provides useful ways to deal with your health anxieties and those thoughts that keep on popping into your head. Instead of fighting those thoughts or beating yourself up for having them, the book will give you strategies to manage and deal with them such as taking them to absurd extremes.

Anyways, I wish you the best of luck.

To Maybetomorrow9 et al
Yikes! Don't detox with Diatomaceous Earth! It causes tissues damage (microscopic cuts). Some even has "bait" added to it to attract bedbugs to come to piles of it so the sharp crushed up shells can destroy their exoskeletons and dehydrates them. Please don't swallow this stuff. There are safe detox options. This is not one of them!

As everyone has posted, relax.
You're taking what you need to get better, and so let the fun side of being sick have the floor for a little while.
Yes, the fun side.
Think about the things you do for yourself when you are sick, and try one of the funnier ones.
I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you so much for your responses. I woke up today feeling much better than yesterday. Not 100% but definitely way better. So that just be a good thing right? If I had some disease I wouldn't fight it off so quickly?

I'm just so terrified that there its something wrong with me. This anxiety just blows everything out of proportion and makes me feel so out of control!

Briman I will definitely check out the workbook. I've heard about it before and it seems people find it helpful. And as for the fun side of being sick that made me laugh because I know I have given that same advice to someone else before (we never take our own advice lol). I agree that it is nice to just baby yourself and eat soup and relax when sick! I'm feeling better so that helps ease the anxiety a little, but I still wonder why I didn't fight off the bug to begin with. Why couldn't my immune system catch it before I got sick? Oh well, just the anxiety talking I guess. Thanks for all of your help everyone!

@ ayns- I forgot to mention that I take the food grade kind. Thanks for the concern!

I have exactly the same problem! Even if people in my family have been sick with exactly the same thing, i always have to think the worst case scenario! It is just part of us, but I know what you mean, it would be so nice to curl up and sleep when we are sick instead of obsessing about what it is! :( Glad your feeling better