I wanna talk about psychosomatic symptoms. How powerful are they for you? Because sometimes symptoms start for me before I even know it’s linked to a disease—but then I Google it and it intensifies. I kind of wanna hear about the power of y’all’s psychosomatic symptoms bc I think it may make me feel better.
I'm constantly body scanning for symptoms then googling causes. The problem is googling the cause of a pimple can end up as acne or skin cancer...
This happens to me too! Like I’ll have a random symptom but googling it makes it so much worse. Like I’ve been having leg pain and I googled it and discovered DVTs or blood clots and it’s been such an obsession for me for weeks now. Every bruise or vein I see on my leg is a clot
you're doing a bit of a compulsion right now trying to get relief from our comments but its a support group so ill just give you a crump. YES!!!! google, reddit, these things are AWFUL. i manifested an anxious bladder situation based of reading about something on reddit and it has taken me over a month to finally START to get it under control. I went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/the-three-rs-research-rumination-and-reassurance read this and it will help and I BEG you to STAY OFF GOOGLE!!! before you find that ONE thing that sends you into a spiral!
I've experienced the same thing, where a small issue turns into a huge ordeal that lasts for months. Most recently, in May, I noticed a slight movement in my neck it had been happening a while one day I just started obsessing about it looking it up online, I became extremely anxious, which then literally manifested into numerous physical problems in my neck due to the stress of believing I had what I read about. Months later I'm still trying to address the neck issues caused by the stress.
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.
Can someone tell me how to stop constantly googling every single thing that feels wrong. In the last three days I’ve convinced myself I had MS, I could be having a stroke (multiple times), I have a autoimmune disease and overall something’s wrong with my health. I made a appt to go see my doctor next week to get bloodwork done, which I know is almost like a compulsion because I need assurance that I’m okay, or if I’m not to figure out what’s wrong. My anxiety has made me have so many physical symptoms that I don’t know what’s a problem and what is my anxious brain. Every time something feels wrong I go to dr. Google and then I automatically have some life ending disease. My brain is so tired, I just can’t keep living like this where my mind races and greats new issues everyday. One week it’s health, the next it’s something else, the themes keep changing to keep it interesting and I fear that the mental/physical toll and stress of this is actually going to inevitably harm me. Can someone please give me some advice as to not lose my mind
I wish there was a way to block googling medical symptoms- like a setting or something. Some physical boundary to avoid doing it
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