Made the mistake of googling 😩😩 help me please.

Hey, I wanted to say I have fallen down the rabbit hole of googling health problems before. You are not alone. Worrying about obesity and blood pressure is an actual solvable problem via exercise and diet, so I wouldn’t personally lump that under ocd symptoms. However, the fear of a random aneurysm or tumor is classic ocd, since it’s uncertain, painful, and leads to rapid death. My advice would be to live the healthiest life style you can practically manage and accept the fact that you might one day get a tumor anyways do to random chance. Live the best life you can in the present.

@Anon17 If the anxiety is really bad it can give me a splitting headache, though usually I just have stomach issues when I get anxious. So I understand where your fear of aneurysm is coming from. I mostly worry about having a heart attack from over exerting myself, which has led to me avoiding hard cardio. As for the feeling of it being too late to fix yourself, it’s never too late. The fear that your life is already ruined in the past is one of the way ocd manifests in my experience. It preys on the fact that we don’t have perfect information at all times to make us doubt we will ever get better. If I might ask, what is your current routine and diet to lose weight? Having concrete goals and a routine you can follow can reduce the gaps for ocd to worm itself into. And remember above all else, say maybe to any thoughts that are clearly ocd. Maybe is your best tool.

I’m not lumping obesity under ocd symptoms because i know i am obese. Like it’s not a secret. And i know that’s most likely why i have high blood pressure along with nerves and anxiety. It’s just the fact that high blood pressure is so serious and can cause these problems that scare me. Like i know i can lose weight and eat healthy. That is actually what I’m trying to work on right now. But what if it’s to late? What if i already have all these problems? I appreciate your advice so much. I wish I’ve been healthy from the get go but i just wasn’t. I wish i could’ve controlled it better when i was younger. Does your ocd/anxiety ever cause head pains? Not severe and not long lasting but just come and go? This is currently what I’m experiencing and that’s why I’m getting so worked up over everything.

I get stomach issues as well. Not as much as a headache or feeling light headed (i feel like these are my main 2). I also have fear of having a heart attack and has led me to avoid hard fitness activity as well! Thank you so much I’m still learning the ways of ocd since I’ve only developed t about 3 months ago. I never realized how debilitating it could be! Like I’ve never realized that what’s going on in my head is ocd. Considering that i have alternating themes. It started out as really bad harm intrusive thoughts and now it’s turned to really bad health intrusive thoughts. To be honest at the moment i do not have a current routine and diet to lose weight. I keep telling myself that i am going to start but find myself never starting. It’s just a struggle because like said above hard workouts scare me do to heart related thoughts, and then simple workouts like treadmills scare me because it’s just me being left alone with my thoughts and i never know where my mind could wander. Thank you so much for the advice!

I have sat here tonight and googled all kinds of respiratory issues I’m sick and scared I’m gonna die. I’m constantly checking my heart rate and o2.. 😥