if 18% if the population goes thru this and only 9% meds or cbt work this is more then a thought thing. It is anyway. It is a dysfunction and a broken switch of some sort because others manually self cam. Its the bodies naturual way to cope. But for us thats broken and fires the fight or flight switch, to manage this disorder, until it is understood and corrected, we have to manually self calm ourselves. Which is the only real way to handle this. My issues are that many people have no clue how debilitaing and horrific this disorder is. This was never a choice for any of us. And it was not negative thoughts that brought it on. Its that negative thoughts wont correct it and will make it way worse. Because you must manually over ride your bodies broken ability to do it automatically you cant be negative. You have to calm what the adrenaline rush causes without feeding the triggered fear. Calling it health anxiety is wring.thats the effect it has but not what it is in its nature, im just venting because this is not a simple case of health worries here. We are all trained to believe we have to have out own best interest and health in iut own hands and basically be out own doctors. Google has fed that as has the media. All doctors know this is debilitating as do scientists but because there is no fix for it yet get frustrated or dont understand it and go to medications, knowing they will help half the population only and knowing they are short term and not knowing the long term effects.its all they got to work with.this disorder deserves a real name that does not imply its self inflicted. It is not and i would challenge anyone on Earth who believes it is. it is just the answer at this time is we can manually over ride ourslves with proper knowledge and tools. But it is very hard and exhausting for the record.it takes every ounce of energy to do it at times. Some do successfully retrain their brains to circumvent the broken switch(i have no other name for it). I feel its a virus or trauma that effectd that part of our brains, i cant proove that but im sure for the record this is not by choice of any human being to be this way. Im saying we all kow its not a choice, but the outside world does not because hypocondria or health anxiety as a label comes with a stigma and a belief it is a choice, self inflicted and it is not.again it can be manually over ridden but that does not make it a choice. Had to vent. This frustrates me terribly because on an intellectual level i understand it too well at this point. And on an behavioral or emotional level i have felt the terror. Anyone have any thought on this?
You are 100% correct on everything you just said , this whole anxiety panic disorder thing needs to be reevaluated , like seriously !!
I hate anxiety thus stuff hurts i hate when people say it can't hurt you but thats a lie because im feelin pain every day and feeling weird every day
So true , it does hurt !!
Excellent and insightful post Lisa. Today's pace of life, just to survive, doesn't give one the time needed to fix our brokenness unfortunately.
I believe too, that the preferred treatment is medication and that's where the research money seems to be channeled and that of course is because there in lies the profit, sad but true. The condition is dibilitating and I was surprised how many suffer from it. May we all get well and return to living a peaceful and fulfilling life.
Brian
Absolutely. The public doesnt get we are dealing with the firing of fight or flight and it effects 70% of our bodies at once. It effectsbthe body, the mind and the soul. Its real and it does hurt. I know people just thinkmits about worrying about a health issue, it isnt that the result because to indure so many symptoms at once, or intense few symtoms hurts and when someothing hurts that much and is cinsistent it is our nature to believe this can not be a mindset. But a mindeset can over ride it to calm it down but sometimes it can take a ling time to master that leaving one with exhaustion and a beaten down feeling. Yes sergio it does hurt.
they are researching it but if they only knew how it feels, to feel what we all have felt and indured they would work harder. MRI s already proove the brain is effected as it lights up but the ignorance here is people thinking its worrying about health. If we didnt hurt so much and so consistently we would not be worried about health to begin with. Its a not a few people that have this , its 18% and that is a lot of people worldwide. These forum are all over the olace, they have in even in japan. The least that can be done is awareness and a new label, a more realistic label of ehat it is, cause health anxiety is the end result not what it is.
I believe that your right. I do believe it to a nature (hereditary) and nuture (enviroment) disorder. I do believe that we inherit mental illness from our parents, and the way we are nutured growing up, events in our lives, etc. make this disorders worse. I done research on other mental illness issues, and their is a correlation with nature and nuture.
I agree Lisa and a new label just may be the answer. I find that most psychiatric issues are not taken as seriously as physical ones. I base this on my 20yrs as Emergency room RN in an inner city hospital. Unfortunately, psych patients are kind of shuffled to the side. Just my observation.
great post and point
Brian