- Username
- kendallbrown0325
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I suffered with health ocd for years after my dad passed away. I have been in your situation as well. My headaches were debilitating and lasted for 3 months non stop. I was convinced I was dying of a brain tumor. The best thing to do is journal how you feel. I dont know why but it helps shift the energy in your body when you write down your emotions and how you are feeling. I still have a hard time doing to doctors but I find my health ocd has changed themes to rocd
Deep breaths ( I know we hate to hear that ) You do not have a brain tumour, you do have anxiety and worry and that's okay. Focus on mending the issue that you do have, rather than creating an issue that you don't have :)
Chasing lace- my health anxiety started after my dad’s death too! It’s been about 8 months and I am struggling hard core. Hours googling, hundreds of dollars on doctors. What did you do to help or get the theme to shift?
I am still struggling, but I am getting better! I have spent multiple times in the drs and googling it’s been rough. Begging for scans but I just tell myself to stop worrying. After a while it becomes a a routine of checking yourself, googling etc you have to get out of that routine when you get the urge to google or exam yourself go do something clean, take a walk etc. I also bought a book called the worry trick it explains why we worry and examples or different scenarios the book is awesome you should buy it
I found that having a psychiatrist really helped. He was very good in the sense he told me I am not allowed to see a gp for health concerns anymore. I would need to go through him first and he would let me know if I needed to see a dr or not. I still suffer tho many years later, just not as bad. My OCD theme has switched :(
I suffer with relationship OCD and I am not even in a relationship or have been for 5 years this is my main concern now and it fricken sucks overanalyzing and overthinking. I do have a OCD recovery coach I found off of YouTube and she has been really helpful in explaining to me how OCD works. Her name is Ali Greymond
Is she worth the money?
Well I'm not recovered yet, but she has been helpful
Hey guys, I’m kinda freakin out. I keep feeling like I have a brain tumor. I read the symptoms, I asked my parents, my roommates and their girlfriends, I don’t know why I feel so weird. Does anybody have tips?
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 😭😭😭
I’m trying so hard not to post on here because i know it’s a compulsion. However I’m just so beyond scared. And this is health related and i know most of you are going to say you need to see a doctor or something along those lines but I’m just wondering If others have experienced anything like this and how to overcome it. I’m so beyond scared of having a brain tumor. Like it’s taking over my life. I’m scared to death of having a seizure because i know seizing is apart of brain tumors. I honestly don’t know what to do at this point. I keep feeling pains and sensations in my head particularly on one side. And because i know that brain tumor pain is normally localized in one spot i am freaking out. My mind keeps telling me “what if you are forgetful” so i keeps repeating my name, where i work, families names, etc to make sure I’m not in confusion and forgetting things. My eyes keep twitching, i am anxious 24:7. And normally being anxious would make me feel better in a way but now I’m scared to be anxious because anxiety could be a symptom of an underlying brain tumor. I don’t know what to do. I’m to scared of going to the doctors. What if they tell me i actually do have a tumor. Would i want to catch it early, of course i would but i am wayy to scared. These pains in my head are so beyond scary. The only thing making me feel somewhat okay is the fact that they come an go (and sometimes all over head as opposed to one spot) Like this morning i was fine with no pains but now they are here and I’m sick to my stomach. I’m also scared of feeling any nausea or stomach cramps because i know that vomiting is a sign of a tumor. And This morning i woke up with intense intense anxiety and i literally had a vision of me in the hospital getting a tumor removed. And it was beyond scary 😭😭😭
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