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- 6y
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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
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- 6y
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 :)
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- 6y
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?
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- 6y
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
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- 6y
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 :(
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- 6y
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
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- 6y
Is she worth the money?
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- 6y
Well I'm not recovered yet, but she has been helpful
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- 12w
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