Oh yes. The same thing happens to me and it FEELS like I'm going crazy. One of the worst things is that so many people have little patience for us! I've felt a lot of shame about it, like I'm burdening other people. Yet it's the way I'm wired. I can't help it. I can only take anxiety medication but that only goes so far. ( also I'm terrified of drug side affects!)
Please know you're not alone :)

I feel like I’m going crazy but most of all I’m so scared all the time and I’m so tired of feeling so paranoid about my health. I focus on every sensation and I feel selfish. I feel like I’m robbing myself of joy especially my kids because I’m pretending all day long that I’m ok when deep down inside I’m screaming. Thank you for your response I appreciate it.

Anytime. I feel I can vent here. I have lots of health issues right now and medication scares me a lot so I make it hard to help myself with meds because I'm terrified of allergic reaction! Heart problems are my other big thing. And cancer and going blind.

I am the same. I fear everything under the sun. Everything scares me. My oldest daughter has been showing signs like us and I’m just so devastated because I never wanted any of my children to suffer mentally like this. It started when she lost her great grandfather this winter. :(
But I’m so scared of medications and side effects all that stuff, because I worked in a pharmacy for 4 years and I saw a lot and learned a lot. That’s why I want to try homeopathic and natural remedies before I were to consider anything else. I’ve always the same fears as you and I’m so glad I have this website we can vent to because it helps and I feel like we are family here that support one another. We can’t just vent to anyone so I’m thankful for all of you. I wish I can go to an actual in person support group.

For me it's very similar. I just freak out over any symptom, any skin issue, anything in my throat. I think the worst - it's cancer, it's deadly. It's a heart attack I will get a stroke and I die. I go to the Doctor, feel better, and then the fear of illness is back. I go to the extreme negative immediately. It helps as well to vent this fear I carry. I wish I focused more on living than illness. I'm trying to get better.

Hello all, I am the same way. It is good to know that you are not along. I too wish I could go to an in person support group because I think I would benefit from it but I am glad we have this support group. Health issues mental and physical are really debilitating me. I can't do the things that I used to and I feel like I am going crazy and no one understands how to help me. Sometimes I feel so along and I cry alot. Thank you for this post and to all of you please let's keep in touch and help one another daily.

Thank you all for the support. I feel the same. I wish I focused more on life, being alive. Some days I do but most days are a struggle. I get anxious for every little thing too. A new mole or spot, a headache, a sharp pain you name it. I watched a video the other day where a physiologist says that when a woman is pregnant what they feel as far as emotions are passed to the fetus but those (negative/sad/happy/angry basically all emotions) are brought out in us later on life sometimes childhood or adulthood. Unfortunately my mom was very miserable and depressed when she was pregnant with myself and 2 more of my siblings and all 3 of us have some form of anxiety or depression.

I pray none of my children suffer in their lives.