Hello everyone, I've not felt anxious for a few weeks now but as of now I've created this obsession with feeling my neck for any abnormalities. Well I was feeling around and I had to google the muscle this is called but here it goes the "sternocleidomastoid" muscle that runs up either side of the neck, well directly below my ear lobe at the side of my jaw I can feel something rather hard and immovable but I have to turn a certain way to feel it, as normally the muscle kind of goes over it? It doesn't feel like a lymph node as ive hears they're a bean like shape? It's not visible on me at all I have to press in, am I being stupid about this and letting my anxiety get the best of me? Thanks for reading
Hi Jordan,Stop looking for things that are not there,if you keep looking your just going to worry yourself and then you'll Google whatever you think you've found,and so it gets to be a vicious circle, you've googled something that millions of people have never even heard of,and your convincing yourself that there's something wrong, there's not, it's anxiety playing games again,so don't let it win, your ok,there's nothing wrong with you,just an over active mind, be kind to yourself and do something different when the urge to check yourself comes, sending you best wishes 😊
Sorry predictive text, should say kieran
Thank you for the reply Trina, I needed to hear/read that appreciate it 😊