Struggling with health OCD after trauma; how do others cope?

Health OCD Struggles

Hi, im relatively new to the community. I’m hoping I can reach out and hear from some people who have health ocd. I used to have perfectionism, or “everything right” ocd, but ever since an incident involving a health issue last year, it’s manifested into health ocd. It may have exacerbated by the death of someone close to me, as it was cancer-related, and that’s what my intrusive thoughts seem to be about most of the time lately. How do you deal with it, especially when you ARE someone that’s prone to health issues?

Health Concern OCD

Username: isabelroseisabelrose

Date posted: 43w ago

Im so sorry you deal with this. I had other subtypes of OCD and the health one didn’t bother me until an incident I had as well and my OCD took that and ran with it even though I know I’m healthy. I hope you can find peace with it and I can always talk because I will understand you. I know it’s difficult but you will be okay ❤️

Username: angiew58angiew58

Date posted: 43w ago

@isabelrose Thank you! This means so much :))

Username: BiancaSawyer13BiancaSawyer13

Date posted: 43w ago

Hello there! It sounds like you're navigating through some tough times, especially with the shift in your OCD focus from perfectionism to health concerns, probably ignited by your recent personal experiences. I can imagine the anxiety that comes from having health issues and also experiencing health-related OCD symptoms. Please know you're not alone in this and there are people here who genuinely understand. When I'm struggling with my OCD, I find this AI OCD therapy tool named "unstuck" incredibly helpful. You can try it here - unstuckmyocd.com/try. I heard about it from my OCD support group and I only wish I'd known about it much earlier. With your health related OCD, it would be particularly useful because it gives personalized guidance, and it can cater to your specific anxiety triggers, providing step-by-step support much like how an OCD therapist would do. It's really been a game-changer for me in managing certain triggers that my OCD tends to hone in on. I’m absolutely here for you if you have any questions about the tool or if you just want to chat more. 😊👍

Username: Graciegirl

Date posted: 1y ago

Health Anxiety/OCD

I’ve been struggling with OCD since middle school. Over the years I’ve had many different obsessions such as POCD, Harm OCD, and now Health Concern OCD. For the last 6 months my newest obsession has been thinking that I am having a heart attack. I constantly body check, google symptoms, ask others for reassurance. I live at my university which is a little bit far from home. This causes me to have to call my mom in the middle of the night every time I have a panic attack over this. My roommates a nursing major so she always offers to take my blood pressure which helps, but still I don’t enjoy living like this. I always feel bad bothering others, and constantly feel like a nuisance. If anyone else with these worries and obsessions can let me know new ways to cope with it that would be amazing:) I just started my switch from lexapro to prozac for my OCD and I’m hopefully starting ERP/CBT soon but any tips on how to help this would be amazing.

Health Concern OCD

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

Major health ocd

Man, this is killing me. I’ve had very form of ocd I think from POcD, false memory, socd, hocd, perfectionism, contamination, existential and the one that trips me up the most is health ocd. All the stress OCD gives me causes me to feel some pretty weird sensations in my head and lots of depersonalization. I constantly think I’m developing Alzheimer’s, brain cancer, or really just anything else. BUT these fears get a hold of me so well, I actually become forgetful, stutter, experience blurry vision, painful migraines……. And so I get symptoms of the diseases I fear. Any advice this is killing me?🥺

Username: PurpleLotus

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 44w ago

Health Issues and Anxiety/OCD

I’ve been struggling a lot recently with my anxiety and ruminating about a health issue that I’m reminded almost constantly about. Has anyone dealt with this type of thing and if so how did you manage? I’m used to more intrusive thoughts and “pure” OCD but this is different. 😩

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