Health OCD and physical symptoms

I have terrible health anxiety/OCD. I got a small pain/twitching/pressure in the left side of my head and of course my OCD brain ran with it and though up every worst case scenario. Then I got myself worked up and was tense which probably made the pain and twitching worse. So once I was able to calm down and distract myself the pain disappeared. 😐 I hate having anxiety to the point it causes physical symptoms which just makes me more anxious. It’s a horrible loop to be stuck i

Username: Samwise33

Date posted: 113d ago

Is the twitching like “ticks”?

Username: Meemo

Date posted: 113d ago

@Samwise33 No it was a throbbing like a muscle spasm. I have really bad tmj issues and if I’m subconsciously clenching I get a spasm in front of my ear

Username: Catis

Date posted: 113d ago

I totally understand. I know this will sound scary and perhaps ridiculous, but what has worked for me (and I mean worked to the point that I rarely have health anxiety consume my life) is I say to myself: OK, if it’s my time to go, I accept it. I put everything in God’s hands and will let things just be. If you don’t believe in God, then just tell yourself: ok, whatever this is, I will let it be. I have had health anxiety over heart attacks, breast cancer, and blindness. When I stopped caring about having any of these issues, the health anxiety scaled back. I employed a f*ck it attitude toward these things and my life changed.

Username: Catis

Date posted: 113d ago

Oh, and NEVER Google your symptoms. Make a promise to yourself, your mom, brother, sister, anyone. Googling symptoms when you have health anxiety only worsens the problem.