Decided to Google my thoughts to see if anyone else had them and that’s the worst thing I could have done. All googling has done is make my anxiety worse. My therapist told me not to Google anything because it’s not helpful and I didn’t listen and now reading different things have made me scared. So learn from me guys, refrain from Googling your thoughts it doesn’t help.
Done the same. It it okay and do not be too hard on yourself. Take small steps.
Try not to feel too bad about it. I’ve googled fully knowing it was not in my best interest multiple times - it’s okay, just try to keep it in mind next time :)
That's what this place is for bbdoll 💞 we'll all get there together with practice. I always spill my fears onto everyone around me compulsively.. and it immediately backfires and just accelerates the anxious thinking, and usually forces me to do different compulsions at the same time or intermittently. We gotta train our habit to spill here if we ABSOLUTELY need feedback, otherwise journaling might be best for those thoughts just to play them out and talk yourself through
We ALL have been there haha. And it definitely can make it worse most of the time. My therapist would tell me, when you feel that urge to research (or do any compulsion) tell yourself "okay, I can do that if this gets completely and utterly unbearable...but for now I'm just gonna see if I can resist it for 10 minutes" and then after that period of time, if you haven't comprised, see if you can continue to resist the urge to compulsion. And just see how long you can go. If you mess up, no biggie. But you might get lucky and eventually that urge will pass and you'll just accept that you're feeling cruddy for a while
Yep definitely agree decided it would be a good idea to read the comments to YouTube video now I’m stressing but I’m trying to apply what I’ve learned so far in therapy to these thoughts
We all have set backs, healing isn't linear, just treat it as a bump in the road and start fresh with a new attitude and outlook each day
Been there down that!
DON’T GOOGLE! It will just give your OCD ideas. People survived before Google. All their worst fears didn’t come true just because they didn’t Google it. Even if you found that bit of reassurance, it will never be enough.
i had these red spots on my leg and i made the mistake of googling it. now i’m terrified i have leukaemia. i went to the doctors and showed her a picture but i felt like she dismissed it quickly so it didn’t give me peace of mind. now i’m having the worst anxiety ever over it. i can’t focus, i have headaches, my knee has been hurting so much and my muscles feel tense. i know they can also be symptoms of anxiety but im scared it’s cancer and i’ve been failing classes because i can’t stop thinking about it. i constantly check the symptoms of leukaemia online and check if i have them. i’m trying to make another appointment with my doctor but she’s not the most caring doctor so i just feel annoying and crazy.
I just can’t help it. And you would think I’d be able to stop considering how much worse it makes me feel. I have Pains that come and go in my head. They are not stabbing that are just there. Sometimes they last all days sometimes they last 1 second and come and go throughout the day. The last few days oven been scared of brain tumors. So i looked it up again. And it says less than 1% of population develop cancerous tumors. However then i got reading about aneurysms. And it says that most people die within the first 25 minutes after a ruptured aneurysm. What the heck?!! What if i secretly have one? It says that aneurysm headaches are stabbing worst pain you could ever feel which my headaches are not. But what if i secretly have an aneurysm. It says they are caused by High blood pressure. Which i tend to have every time i go to Doctors ( i thought it was nerves, anxiety, being obese). What if i just wake up i. The middle of a night with a headache that brings me to my knees and it’s a ruptured aneurysm?? I’m more scared about this than a brain tumor. What am i doing to myself? Please help 😭😭😭
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