Hello fellow stress heads...
I have been suffering from health anxiety for some months now and it's getting progressively worse. I knew a girl my age who recently died of a brain tumour and a family member in my household is currently undergoing radiation treatment for cancer, together with constant health horror stories on the news and social media is turning me into a hypochondriac. I am paranoid about constantly washing my hands or sanitising with the fear I might catch something awful. I worry myself sick if I show the slightest abnormal symptom and over analyse by searching on the internet. I get anxious about being in places that are far from hospitals in case I need one. Last year I had a small biopsy procedure for Cervical cancer as my original results showed signs of abnormality, but the second lots of results came back clear - yet I can't help but worry that somehow they got my records mixed up or information wrong and I must be living with cancer. As far as anyone else is concerned including my GP I am healthy! It's really starting to impact my day to day and it's making me upset because I can't get out of feeling this way, I literally can't stop worrying! Then the spiral begins, I worry and stress more, giving myself more emotional and physical symptoms and so it continues... in particular I am suffering from Bruxism (clentching my jaw) and waking up with a sore jaw every day and general emotional stress from constantly feeling like this.
Does anyone else feel this way? What steps have people taken to alleviate the anxiety of health issues???!!! Please help!
