- Username
- bree.w23
- Date posted
- 48w ago
Health
How do u stop overly worrying about your health. I have a sinus infection, eye infection, and ear infection and im scared there’s more to it because it doesn’t feel like anything is working
How do u stop overly worrying about your health. I have a sinus infection, eye infection, and ear infection and im scared there’s more to it because it doesn’t feel like anything is working
Hey there, I'm really sorry you're going through such a tough time with your health right now. It sounds incredibly stressful, and it's totally understandable to feel scared when things don't seem to be improving. 😟 I'm not an expert on OCD, especially with health-related themes, but I can share some resources that might help you out. The OCD Reddit is a great place to connect with others who might be experiencing similar worries. It's been a helpful spot for me to feel less alone in my struggles. Also, have you heard of the "unstuck OCD therapy tools" app? My NOCD therapist recommended it to me, and it's been a game-changer. It gives you AI-personalized guidance and exercises right when you need them. It might be worth checking out to help manage those overwhelming feelings. Hang in there! 🌟
@XiennaVidet72 Thank u so much I’ll check it out
For me, the best way is just distraction. I've been reading books, going out and doing activities, drawing, etc. to distract myself from these thoughts. Personally, if I have a moment of silence I *will* end up thinking about it, so I just try to keep myself busy.
@Anonymous I will try that
Last year, I dealt with horrid panic attacks constantly worrying I had HIV. A test disproved that and with therapy and the test results I managed to calm. Now again, the same time as last year, another disease drives me insane. Rabies. I haven’t even had contact with possibly rabid animals. I feed a stray but he is obviously not rabid nor do I touch him. I worry a bat unknowingly bit me and now I have rabies and I’m dying. I’m hyper aware of my body. The worry comes and goes but I’m having panic attacks all over again and constantly having to look at reasons why I don’t have it. I don’t even have bats in my house to my knowledge I’ve never even seen one but I’m becoming exhausted. My throat feels tight , I’m tired, I panic nightly, I observe my body so much, every sensation. I’m miserable. I need help and support badly.
So anxiety wise I had been doing so well. I wasn’t as bad as I had been in the past. My ocd stems from the fear of going crazy or developing schizophrenia. About 2 weeks ago I had something odd happen where I woke up and was getting ready for work and I had been seeing this zig zag thing in my eyes and then I couldn’t talk or type anything everything was jumbled. My boyfriend realized and I was able to tell him we need to go to the hospital. In the car on the way to the hospital I started feeling tingling in my right arm that spread to my fingertips. The whole time this has been happening I have a headache that I would score 2/10 nothing crazy. At the time I wasn’t sure if I had insurance or not but was under the impression I didn’t because I had just quit my part time job and was working PRN, I got stroke alerted at the hospital and they did a CTA and EKG and everything came back negative. The doctors told me they recommended an MRI to rule out a TIA but they didn’t think that it was one due to my age etc. due to the fact that I thought I didn’t have insurance I turned it down. The following day I was able to get my PCP to order me one and figured out my insurance situation and got the MRI done which also came back negative. My anxiety now is that what if I did have a TIA (mini stroke) and it’s just not showing on a scan because they self resolve so sometimes they don’t show up. What is worrying me is I’m not taking anything because they don’t think it was a TIA and they believe it was a complex migraine. I’m so anxious all the time hyper aware of every symptom I have. It’s been almost 2 weeks and I’m just so scared all the time.
I’ve been vaping for about three years now. I’ve tried to quit multiple times but with the people around me, also do, and it makes it difficult to stop buying it and or hitting it. My OCD is based off obsessive thoughts on my health and worrying about natural bodily feelings. Twitches, random pains throughout my body, scare me and make me feel like I can’t control my thoughts. When I vape, i’ve heard about lungs collapsing and I worry about it. I want to stop, but can’t seem to. If I have a headache I worry about a brain tumor, when there are many reasons I could have one. When I mess up a sentence I worry about a stroke, and check my face to see if it’s even. I worry about cancer on a regular basis, a small pain or lymph node swollen, i convince myself it’s cancer. I go to the doctor often because of this. It’s scary, that there is a possibility it could happen. I hate this.
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