I'm 17 years old and have been suffering with anxiety and health anxiety the past 3-4 months and it's really starting to take over my life really badly, I'm a severe hypachondriac too and all I think about is my health when really I should be focusing on school my friends and my dancing but I just can't anymore the anxiety is too much, I constantly feel tired, dizzy lightheaded, pains in my head my eyes in my neck shoulders down my back and just always feeling tense, I've been to A&E and they told me it's anxiety I don't know how many times I've been to my GP and got countless blood tests and everything is fine I'm a healthy teenager the only thing I have is anemia (iron deficiency) which causes the symptoms I'm having, but still can't get my head around that I'm okay I keep overthinking about all sorts of illnesses and diseases even though I've been told time and time again that I'm fine there's nothing wrong with me! It's so annoying and upsetting to deal with everyday can anyone please give me some advice please??
Hi there i was in the same boat u are in its crazy just focus and tell your self it is anxiety it can't hurt you it will pass in time the more you focus on the pains the worse it gets honestly it's a pain at times but once you tell your self it won't kill you in all its an experience some might get it some might not its your mind working a long a*# shift you will be fine
Hey Paul thank you so much for writing back means a lot😊 exactly any time I think about it the pains in my head get worse and it's so annoying I'm in my last year of school and really want to do well but I'm scared that it's gona get worse as I get closer to exams and all I really just want to be able to overcome it
You will over come this trust me I'm nearly there I still get chest pain headaches rib pain basically pain all over but I just chill and let it pass and it does our brain in so powerful it's working in over time constantly thinking about the pains that's when they get worse I'd you need to chat personal message me any time
I really hope so, it's completely changed the outgoing happy fun teenage girl I used to be, I really hate it it's not fair I'm constantly getting upset about it and all I get off my family is your grand your just a hypachondriac and all this which doesn't help at all it's honestly easier said then done, also had a lot of personal issues going on the past year which I think has started it all just wish it would go away😞 thank you so much means a lot
It's really is fine I love helping people out if it wasn't for this site I would of been worse I swear.
I stayed in my room 24/7 for about 2 week nothing that's when all this started Isent good at all I start therapy next week so this should knock it out of me able to think differently I hope you get better and stress Isent good this is what your feeling basically that's how your body copes with stress your brain focuses on 1 thing and other things happen chest pain everything you feel is from that and thinking about it makes it he'll of a lot worse... 1 more thing lol don't Google tour symptoms leave it to the Dr's to diagnose you the worst thing comes from it I Google my symptoms and that's were my panic attacks came from q
I'm the same I spent weeks in my bedroom didn't want to go anywhere or do anything! But thankfully I fully snapped out of that cus that's really really bad I really am getting better then i was but I still have my good and bad days! Oh Iknow google is horrible I googled ebeything too! I had myself convinced I had a brain tumour, brain cancer any thing that can go wrong with your brain I was convinced I had it! Even though it is seriously impossible for that to happen to someone as young as me, even my doctor told me she wouldn't even dream of sending me for any brain scans or anything like that because she knows for a fact I have nothing wrong with me!
Your Dr is right it's you will be fine
Thank you so much😊
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Hi Rachel18350 read your post and immediately understood I am 51 and started with this 11 years ago I am constantly looking for cancer any symptoms I have I assume straight away it's that before any tests are done it's a hellish thing it's like torture but what I want to say is don't waste your life on this you are very young your chances of this are very small you have so much life to live don't waste it on this crap we could get hit by a bus before we ever get ill so use your time live your life and enjoy it don't be like me obsessed every symptom heralds a terminal illness it's not a life it's an existence if it waste for my beautiful kids I'd have given up years ago God bless you and take care
Hi tracie thank you so much for replying!😊 really means a lot! I'm so all over the place it's unreal I'm constantly thinking I have a disease or a terminal illness when I've had blood tests come back as proof that I don't but I still think it? I hate it so much just want it to go away😞
Hey Maryann! Thank you so so much for replying really means a lot😊 it's horrible especially this morning I feel a horrible migraine coming on and I feel really really lightheaded😞 I'm glad that the magnesium worked for you I'm defiantly going to look into therapy and the magnesium too😊 thank you so mych😊