i understand that. in my twenties i was in the emergency room evry month thinking i had a brain tumor or a heart attack but just remember the more you panic the more you will feel this way. panic and anxiety can mimic the symptoms of those diseases. so next time u feel that way remind yourself constantly that u r ok and nothing bad will happen to u

I have this problem too. My main OCD problem is and always has been germs, and contamination. Also, I have hypochondria and I get migraines alot so am constantly thinking that I have a tumor or, like you said, an annurism. It scares me to death and I constantly have to ask for reassurance and even though I have had an MRI done on my brain in the last couple of years just to make sure, I still have that fear in my mind. There are tons of other health issues that I'm afraid I've gotten, some that aren't really possible to "catch" persay. I have a fear of getting cancer, toxic shock syndrome, and AIDS. Even though I know that you can't get AIDS by touching someone with it, I have a very hard time going shopping at the grocery store because if I have a tiny cut on my hand or something and I'm pushing the basket I'm constantly thinking Oh my gosh, what if the person that used the basket before me had AIDS and had a cut on their hand and was bleeding, and I just had my hands on that and now I'm going to get AIDS. Doesn't make sense to anyone else I tell it to, because well, lets face it..people that don't have OCD just don't understand as well. So I completely understand where you are coming from on this...hope it gets better for you.

Haha i know exactly what you are talking about. I am also a hypocondria and obsess about illnesses. I actually think that has slowed down for me though. I actually used to hold my breath when walking by old people cuz i thought they were going to give me some disease. That is so horrible but i couldn't help it, my OCD kept telling me they were going to get me sick. I never used to be able to learn about illnesses cuz then i would obsess about them and think i have them. The one show i could never watch was House, but now I can. I don't seem to get stuck on illnesses much anymore. But when there are new things out like when H1N1 was going around i was scared but mostly because i have a huge fear of throwing up and that was one of the symptoms so i feared getting the illness. I still get scared and paranoid about the stomach bug though because of throwing up so at school i pay close attention to if people are sick and i use hand sanitizer a lot at school.

And don't worry about the headache. It is common to get the symptoms of whatever illness you are worried about. Your body does it to urself. I thought i had tapeworm for 1.5 yrs and i couldn't eat cuz my stomach would hurt and i ended up losing 15 lbs in a week in a half. It was all just in my head though. So basically i was making myself sick by thinking i was sick. I am sure you are totally fine, it's a headache and just that nothing more. What i used to do when the thoughts of all these illnesses were bothering me i used to tell myself, "You can't hog all the illnesses in the worl, it's not far to everyone else." So that used to help and it put it in perspective that every illness i learned about there was just no way that i had.

that must be scary, but your only 21 so the chances of you having a brain aneurysm are less than 1% and the chances of you predicting your own aneurysm are even slimmer

I have felt the same way! A headache was always a brain tumor! Then I would be focusing so much on the headache that I would forget to breathe correctly and my hands/feet would go numb. That would just confirm the brain tumor for me even though I knew I wouldn't have numbness in BOTH hands. Therapy and Lexapro have helped me tremendously. I am now able to stop thinking about it. Even if the thought enters my mind, I'm able to stop it, it's not a broken record anymore repeating in my head!