To everyone with health concern ocd, I just wanted to ask, how often do you fell scared you have an honest illness. Like right now I’m going through a cancer scare right now just because of some little weird things going on with my body. I’ve been doing a lot googling and seeing websites that say it’s cancer and others that say it’s just the body being the body and that 9/10 it’s nothing to worry about, I suppose I just want to hear what are some things that made you fear you may have had cancer before in the past and then turned out to be nothing. I usually tend to catastrophize everything

Yeah, I get really scared, I know most times it’s not much to worry about, but it’s just all really scary

I’m sorry to hear that, yeah googling is horrible, I hate feeling like I’m constantly going to die, I also become hyper aware of every feeling in my body too, it’s horrible

I’m going through that exactly, anything that looks off or is different than normal, I panic and assume it’s cancer, it’s horrible. I’m trying my best to not google

@OCDHaver Good luck, you can do this!

I’m sorry you had to go through that, it’s horrible, I haven’t been feeling the best the past couple of days and I guess I’m just really scared it’s something serious, but I’m just trying to relax and just sit with the anxiety. It’s horrible, I’m genuinely terrified I have nail cancer, oral cancer, breast cancer, and a possible tumor in my brain, it’s crazy, it’s horrible living like this, it feels like I’m gonna have to rush to the ER anytime, most of it is just me being hyper aware of my body and any and all sensations, it’s horrible

That sounds terrible, I hate how OCD can send you down the rabbit hole, it’s horrible, the only thing not stopping me from being tested is everyone telling me how irrational I am, it feels horrible. I hope you’re doing better now, OCD is terrible, I also hate how everything I look up on google turns out to be cancer, it’s so stupid