I've been a hypochondiac since i was a kid, I visited 7 doctors last month although I'm actually healthy. My brain even mimics mental illnesses' symptoms now and sometimes I feel like I'd die in my sleep from a silent killer disease.
I used to be this bad. At 13 I felt a swollen gland on my neck, I called my parents at midnight as I was staying at a friend's house who thought I was being over anxious. I called them and cried that I had cancer.. Offcourse it wasn't cancer.
We all have that one friend/relative who is obsessive about cleanliness Even opening the heavens gate won't go smoothly without spraying alcohol on the door knob
If you are reading this and have health anxiety remember that you are still alive! Nothing that you were anxious about before has killed you! Use this thought to convince yourself nothing is happening to you. I went through this and I really feel sorry for anyone still going through this. It's so hard to live with :(
I remember when I had Hypochondria 2 years ago, meditation and yoga really helped me a lot.☺️ Edit: I have never gotten so many likes in my life.. Thank you so much!!!
I'm hypochondriac as well, if I have back pain I think I'm dying. Anything little, makes me think I'm going to die. If I have a rash, I think I have skin cancer. It used to be much worse, I'd cry over stomach pain. I used to think if my heart beat accelerated I was having a heart attack.
I've been a hypochondriac for 4 years now. What started it for me was the trauma I experienced from my parents divorce. The Doctor Google thing is so true. Especially the thing about the ruptured appendix. I've literally searched the same thing when I had a stomach ache.
You doing any better? I’m trying to find some hope as I’m going through the process of being diagnosed with Hypochondria- (I already KNOW I have it though)
Me: Acne Everyone: Dirty skin Doctor: Puberty Google/Mayo Clinic: Common symptoms include whiteheads, blackheads, papules, pustules, comedones rosacea or cysts and nodules which may require medical attention. This condition may be treated but cannot be cured and should be referred to the nearest dermatologist or pharmacist
It's about the fear... the pain... the terror... the nightmares, the questions of wanting to not live, feeling you'd be better off dead but being AFRAID to die...
PLEASE READ!!! I also have that because i was diagnosed with low potassium and 2 years ago my fingers would always go down each night and my legs will feel weak. Then one night in 2019 i felt super week my neck will go down and i couldn't move i couldn't even talk. We went to the hospital and they told me i had low potassium. I stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks. When i got back home i will always get panic attacks each night and every little pain i had i will google it. This sucks😞. And btw im 12. Thanks for reading this God bless you!
So that's what it's called. I was always wondering why I was always scared of every disease I heard about. And it's infuriating that I can't stop it. If something hurts or if I feel bad I get very scared and when I Google it I gets even worse. I tried telling my parents that I need help but they just call me paranoid and tell me to stop being scared. Welp it's not that easy.
Same age. Same experience, although I'm not diagnosed yet and it is not as bad as hers. Ever since I was 10, I thought I had breast cancer even though its practically impossible for someone that young to have that disease. Whenever I feel slight or unusual changes on my body or if I feel slight discomfort or pain, I immediately think of it as cancer or whatever diseases, I always imagine the worst. I always google my symptoms and it doesn't help at all. It gets to the point that I think about my future, if I'm even going to live long enough and stuff like that. Thank you so much for sharing your story, I can relate a lot and it doesn't make me feel alone.
I have the same thing I ended up diagnosed with ocd but I obsess over health and would google for hours at a time at one point I was bossing over my pulse and compulsively checking my pulse to reassure I was fine. I understand fully what she’s going through in terms of health obsessions
Thank you Thank you Thank you because this is exactly how felt when my mom died with cancer i couldnt stop worrrying and im working on it but it is not easy thank for sharing this story
It only gets worse if you have this disorder because if you're sure you have a certain disease, you'll start feeling things that really aren't there, like specific types of pain, just because you read about it and your body thinks that's what it's supposed to feel. It also works the other way around. If someone gave you a candy and said it was medication to make your headache go away, it might actually go away because your body automatically shuts down the pain thinking it's because of "medication".
I also have hypochondria, I never went to a doctor or anything though cause of money issues. It absolutely SUCKS. I have chronic migraines, so I’m to believe that I have a brain tumor, especially since I’ve experience some of the symptoms. I experienced chest pains before, and I thought I was having heart issues. I get cysts, cysts can be a sign of cancer. Now I’m panicking, thanks for updating me mom on that. Looking up symptoms are the worst, every time I feel the slightest of pain anywhere, or I get sick, I look up the symptoms. When I find something severe that includes my symptoms, I start panicking like crazy, I mentioned myself being a hypochondriac but my parents don’t seem to care, we don’t have money to see a doctor or anything so that’s maybe why.
This is basically me. Since my grandmother died I have been 100 % sure I had throat cancer, non hodgkin lymphoma, lung cancer, skin cancer, cancer in my leg, cancer in my neck and, of course, brain cancer. The thing is that while I know it's not real, my mind doesn't accept that conclusion but sticks with it's own. I've noticed it's mostly stress related, meaning that every time I'm experiencing a lot of stress it gets worse. The worst part is I'm actually experiencing the symptoms I associate with the disease I feel I'm having. The mind is powerful thing. It can easily assure me I have trouble swallowing or that I can't breathe properly, as long as I "remember" to focus on it. Just when I realise I haven't been feeling ill because I forgot to focus on my "sympoms", they're back. I can spend weeks in this vicious cycle. Don't even get me started with how hard a life can be if you're constantly thinking you're going to die very soon. Sometimes it's just impossible to focus on living because of sadness of that thought, sometimes it's just horribly scary. I have had panic attacks because of the thought I was coughing blood after eating spaghetti with tomato souce. I have jumped awake in the middle of the night in full panic because I have been too deep in my toughts about my own mortality. I don't seek medical help to my symptoms, though. I used to, but when I realised it was all in my head, I stopped it because getting exams for non-existing symptoms was way more stressfull and caused me more worrying than not going to see the doctor. I have been getting my throat checked more times I want to admit, have been calling to my doctor for asthma medication and even had colonoscopy for absolutely nothing. But sometimes it gets out of hand on the other way. Sometimes I'm terribly afraid to go to see the doctor and being told I'm sick. Just last week I canceled a dentist appoinment because I was sure she would find some cancer from my mouth. The supposed cancer I forgot immediately when I cancel it. I was seeing the therapist for three years and she helped me quite a bit. I know the ways I can relieve my stress and talk my mind out of worrying for nothing. I still can't make a difference between false symptoms created in my head and the real physical ones. Only way I can live a proper life is by deciding to ignore the symptoms and try to live a normal life. If the symptoms don't stop me living my normal life, then I guess my mind can sometimes let them go. I'll say it's super hard to live in the world where every news outlet has health sections with big headlines yelling YOU MAY HAVE A CANCER! DON'T PASS THESE SYMPTOMS! I just try to ignore them and do the exact opposite. I know I may be risking myself of actually having some deadly disease and not get it checked in time, but I am willing to take that risk. I find it comforting to know that regular cancer check-ups and current treatment for cancer actually have pretty little affect on the overall mortality rate on those diseases anyway, so I chances are I'm gonna be okay. I still have a way better chance to die tomorrow in a car crash than die for a cancer that could have been treated if had detected in time.
Something like this happened to me in 7th grade (although I wasn't diagnosed with it; I was more on the worried side than actually reaching out to a doctor multiple times like a real hypochondriac would). It all started with a rash that started from my hands (which was caused my over washing, which was true; I did over wash my hands a lot). From there on, I constantly panicked on whatever minor happened to my body, thinking it was huge. My biggest fears were leukemia, amputation, going bind and deaf, and heart attacks. I was terrified of catching an illness because I didn't want to die young. Fortunately, my family is friends with a doctor, and he was able to talk me through my problems, and why I shouldn't worry about the illnesses that I fear about (like what they really are, cause, treatment, etc). For those of you guys going through a smilier situation, personally, I would advise you to talk to someone, and understand better about medical illnesses. I hope this helps :)
I thought I was the only one with this. It not exactly same, but everyday since a day 2 years ago I have been worrying that I’m going to throw up. It’s all I can think about and I’m constantly going to the nurse at school pleading to go home because I’m so nauseous. The other day I almost threw up and I almost passed out from fear. I went to the doctor and they said nothing is wrong but I didn’t believe them. I thought something was actually wrong and I was actually physically ill. I’ve come to terms with my nausea and I found out that it’s just mental and I have to try to not think about it.
i have this too except for it was my dad who died from cancer when i was 6 and most of my family followed. it wasn’t until i turned 12 that i started having daily panic attacks about my breathing, lungs, appendix, etc.also my mom never believed me and always yells at me for it and says it’s my fault because i “decided” to have anxiety. she took me to the doctor only once for what i thought was a broken rib. another time i almost convinced my grandma to take me to the ER for a heart attack and i made them take me to get my blood pressure examined.
I'm also a hypochondriac with severe anxiety and emetophobia. Not fun. I can't go thirty minutes without worrying that I have something. I have my parents check my temperature every morning because they hid the thermometer and I also have them assure me that I'm not gonna die every night. I always wish at 11:11 am/pm. Google doesn't help most of the time.
My mom called my name while she was in the bedroom. I said "yeah mom?" No answer. I went into the bedroom to see her leaning over the bed she wasn't breathing her lips were turning blue and she was dying. I called 911 and they told me that I had to lift her up and get her on the floor so I dragged my own mom off the bed onto the floor. "I said what do I do now?" They told me to start doing compressions to her chest while counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4!! I kept doing this till the paramedics came. It took them 6 mins to come which felt like an eternity! They took her to the hospital but she died 7 hours later. She had a massive heart attack. Now I can't leave my house. I have PTSD and agoraphobia. Then in 2015 my Dad told me he wasn't feeling well and he felt like he was losing consciousness. To my absolute horror he went into cardiac arrest and I had to perform CPR on him just like my mom. But this time I knew what to do even before calling nine-one-one because of what happened to my mom. Because of that they were able to shock him back and he lived he's still alive today. Now I'm basically catatonic living in my house I can't leave during the day I'm on a bunch of different medications that don't work and then I see stories like these on RUclips and knowing that it's fake just pisses me off because there really people out there like me, going through this kind of stuff. It's cruel in my opinion. This channel is cruel.
Desiree Abell I completely understand you. Any tiny symptom I’m worried I have a terminal or deadly illness. It’s not something that happens every once in a while, it’s constant worry, every day, 24/7. I have to plug my ears if a commercial about health comes on. It’s debilitating. It pollutes my mind each and everyday. I’m tired all the time from anxiety attacks. I’m scared I have something seriously wrong with me even though I’m 19. I’ve had it since I was a kid. I remember having a buzzing noise in my ears when I was a kid and remember crying about to my mom thinking I had mosquitos in my ears and I would cover my ears with a blanket while I slept. It’s just never gone away...
@@TessySega You have an anxiety disorder. Have you talked to your mom and dad and asked them if it runs in the family? It runs on both my parents sides. We're you ever taken away from your family for a short time suddenly? That's another reason.
When doctors see you as being a hypochondriac, it can really suck. I had 4 severely impacted wisdom teeth, and they had caused earaches, headaches, facial pains, jaw pains, and neck pains. But at that time I had not seen a dentist for 17 years, and so I first had set up an appointment with my GP. My GP said that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me at all, and that it was all just in my head. Thus they were seen as being the symptoms of a hypochondriac. So I found myself a good dentist to get a second opinion. He took the x-rays and then informed me that I did not just have severely impacted wisdom teeth, but that they were so bad that they were medical "Text Book Classics", meaning that they were the same as or similar to those listed as those "Worst Case Possible" examples that you see in medical text books. He then set me up with an appointment at a hospital to have the wisdom teeth removed there, since it was far too dangerous to remove them at a dentists office. All 4 were removed at the hospital. Six months later, the same nasty symptoms reappeared. My guess was that I now had pus infections where the wisdom teeth use to be. Off I went to see a different GP to get some antibiotics. Before even having described all of the symptoms to the new GP, the doctor said, "Stop....Stop....Stop....What you are sir, is a hypochondriac.". I asked him what that meant, and he said that basically it means that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you, and that you are just making it all up. I immediately realized that this GP was a complete idiot, and so I proceeded to set up an appointment with the oral surgeon who had removed the wisdom teeth back at the hospital. The oral surgeon in no way whatsoever rejected my words as I informed him of the symptoms. He then told me to open my mouth, and then using one finger he squeezed the gum where one of the wisdom teeth used to be. Out comes his finger with a big blob of white pus on it. Then he said, "This is the cause of all of your nasty symptoms, and we have to give you a shot of antibiotics in the butt RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, plus I will also give you a prescription for further antibiotics. By this time my face was starting to take on the shape of a bowling ball, due to the infections now causing an overall facial swelling. Thus in cases like this, you should always get at least a second opinion !
I am so glad this video is up. I have health anxiety and I kept running back and forth to the doctors over stomach pains and dizziness. It makes me feel like I’m not alone, thank you 🙏
I became a hypochondriac with my kids lol. Everytime my 3yo got sick or acted different I would take her to the hospital, and I somewhat did that with our youngest. Now that they no longer have medicaid, I don't do that anymore. If something definitely didn't seem right about them I would take them to the hospital, but at this time, I just treat symptoms if anything comes up and they are usually better the next day. Last time I took my 3yo to the hospital was when she had strep, but that was an irritating time. The hospital I always went to with her didn't even look at her throat and just jumped to a diagnosis without really testing her. Then she got worse, and she fought the next hospital when they took the strep test which made the test come back negative. I then took her to a clinic, where they did the strep test again and that came back positive. What was bad about that was, since I didn't know it was strep that entire time, I had let her drink any drink of mine, and I ended up getting strep as well. And then online said that if strep goes untreated for a long time, kidney failure can happen. So I was mad as hell at the first hospital we went to for not even looking at her throat, when I told them she wasn't eating. It could have been caught early and she never would've gotten as bad as she did. Her temperature was 103, she was in so much pain and wouldn't eat, diarrhea was horrible cause of how runny it was and how often she did it, she ended up with a terrible rash from that, and one night she woke up basically every hour. It was a nightmare lol. But I know now who to take the kids to if they ever seem to be in bad shape. Which thankfully it's been a year lol.
For me it’s hereditary. I am a third generation hypochondriac. My mom has it and my grandpa had it. But with me it’s in the most severe form. I would focus on something and the more I think of it the more my brain fabricates symptoms that aren’t even there. For example one time when I was 12 I thought I had lung cancer because I was coughing and when I thought about it I felt like I couldn’t breathe properly although it was completely psychological. One night I felt a lump in my jaw and I panicked and cried after seeing that it could be lymphoma but then I touched the other side and it felt the same. It was just my lymph nodes… another time my head was hurting for a week and even after visiting a neurologist I googled it and screamed and cried believing that I for sure have a brain tumour. Then I went to the neurologist again and she said nothing was wrong once again. And in the end it ended up being nothing. But it’s so torturous.
once i was crying at my friends birthday party because i had a headache and thought it was a brain tumor and when i wanted to get a head ct and my mom said no i got rly mad and when the doctor got a sinus ct for something else i still didn't believe i was ok.
It all started when we were talking about cancer awareness in high school, than while I was eating a burger I tasted something salty and thought it just some salt but when I got home I did the most stupidest thing and Googled it and it said: Blood in your mouth can taste salty and if you have it you have hiv, I got terrified and kept on researching and it said things like I had cancer and so I decided to start checking my weight and it went from 46.4 to 45.6 and I got rlly stressed so I kept searching and it said: Cancer Can have *Unintensional weight loss* I started to cry when I realised I had enough so I told my parents and they were the best, they understood me so much and told me how to cope, they banned my google to stop me from googling and it was all fine , but then I pulled a random hair from my eyebrow and thought that wasn’t normal so I went on Instagram and loads of things saying it was a sign of cancer and I got more scared. Currently still being a hypochondriac but I feel fine
A family member lied to the drs and said I had this. I have chronic illnesses that are Dx. They were looking for answers then and found rare issues. I know my body
This just shows that life is all about balance! Yes take care of yourself obviously. But when you worry about your health this much the stress can literally make you sick, like physically sick. Anything overly done can be bad!
My father thought I was a hypochondriac. At first I thought so too. However, after I had recovered from my UTI earlier this year, I noticed I was having really bad stomach pains. It got so bad that I had went to the hospital at least twice for it. I've had numerous CT scans. My parents thought I was going crazy, because doctors couldn't figure out what was going on. Finally, my mother got tired of it, and she told me to ask for my medical history. I did, and I found out that they had discovered diverticulosis in my digestive system, which most likely explains the abdominal pain. Not ONCE have they told me what they found. For all I know is that they found it in the first CT scan I had. I don't 100% distrust doctors after that, but I'd rather see things for myself.
I have hypochondria, I'm scared of death because I'm only 21 and want to live my life. If you have hypochondria it doesn't necessarily mean that you are healthy, you can also have illnesses like anyone. I think there is something wrong with my body, every day I have panic attacks because I feel like I can't breathe, and when my heart beats faster I'm afraid it will stop. Maybe it's too much but I think living it's too hard for my body. I'm afraid I won't wake up the next morning when I sleep, I'm afraid to faint with no one there to help me, or having a heart attack. Sometimes I think I have a problem with my heart or with my lungs. I really want to live without being so afraid, but I also would like to be sure my body is ok. I love my life
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Me: It’s just a cough
Parents: It’s just a cough
Doctor: it’s just a cough
Google: _I diagnose you with dead_
*GASP*
XDDDD
Love ppl like you on the internet 😂😂😂
Wow nice google thanyou
Oh i saw that meme
Earthworm Sally way to true 😂😂😂😂
Me: Mom, i have hypochondria
Mom: Its because of that phone
It literally is lmfao
Dio the RUclipsr but that’s true 😂
TRUE
LOL
But that is true tbh
*I also have a serious problem*
of having a hard time thinking something funny to comment
Duchi lmao
I SEE YOU EVERY WERE 😂
Sienna The Grub ! “every were”
@@siennathegrub8428 Every..... Where?!
Same
I've been a hypochondiac since i was a kid, I visited 7 doctors last month although I'm actually healthy. My brain even mimics mental illnesses' symptoms now
and sometimes I feel like I'd die in my sleep from a silent killer disease.
I think i have it too..b4 i wa
I used to be this bad. At 13 I felt a swollen gland on my neck, I called my parents at midnight as I was staying at a friend's house who thought I was being over anxious. I called them and cried that I had cancer..
Offcourse it wasn't cancer.
Damn I feel the same way
•Kimmy • same but idk if I'm a hypochondriac
@Elizabeth Michel literally same, i felt a little lightheaded and had a brain fog last night, i couldn't sleep at all i thought i'd get a stroke
We all have that one friend/relative who is obsessive about cleanliness
Even opening the heavens gate won't go smoothly without spraying alcohol on the door knob
Oops Opps why u commenting so much
Dude ur on every one of their videos
O'SSÉIN - Master Your Mind With Me we meet again hi
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@Oops Opps why do u comment so much?
Google: I diagnose you with dead
Doctor: You're fine, not to worry
Thanos:
*Reality is often disappointing*
Ah, a person of culture I see.
This is the best comments section ever
If you are reading this and have health anxiety remember that you are still alive! Nothing that you were anxious about before has killed you! Use this thought to convince yourself nothing is happening to you. I went through this and I really feel sorry for anyone still going through this. It's so hard to live with :(
Hey I had watched your stories and those are great. Hope that your channel will grow soon.
Share Your Story thank you I really needed to hear that.
How did you manage to get rid of it...? I’m so tired..
@@kellybrisebois5400 I’m wondering the same question ):
if you have school i hope you have a great day !
Kelsie Taylor thanks!
Thanks
Kelsie Taylor thanks!
Hailee Mae welcome love !
Bea- chan! no problem !!
*I ONLY KNOW MITOCHONDRIA WHAT IS THIS HYPOCHONDRIA*
I am confusion.
YOONGIVERSE마흐룩흐 ikr
@@yumekosaotome451 nope 9th grader
@@yumekosaotome451 why am I disrespectful huh?
@@mahrukhey6250 u seem like an asshole 😂😂
Ewerithing begined from poor girls trauma because of her moms death😭
Yea same
Everything*
Everything
Everything began* (not begined it’s began)
Spelt everything incorreectly
I remember when I had Hypochondria 2 years ago, meditation and yoga really helped me a lot.☺️
Edit: I have never gotten so many likes in my life.. Thank you so much!!!
@Mr. FREELOADER Well, I hope you get better soon..Try meditation, it healed me within, believe or not, 2 months!☺️☺️
I'm hypochondriac as well, if I have back pain I think I'm dying. Anything little, makes me think I'm going to die. If I have a rash, I think I have skin cancer. It used to be much worse, I'd cry over stomach pain. I used to think if my heart beat accelerated I was having a heart attack.
Don't worry , you can do this
Too bad i cant relate... im sometimes too lazy to take care of myself...
Wait thats a bad thing isnt it?... ._.
I've been a hypochondriac for 4 years now. What started it for me was the trauma I experienced from my parents divorce. The Doctor Google thing is so true. Especially the thing about the ruptured appendix. I've literally searched the same thing when I had a stomach ache.
“My worries turned to Hypochondria”
In case the title changes
It changed so thanks
*Google headaches*
Google : Do u mean brain tumor?
Keter_2438 more like brain cancer 😂
Google: have a brain tumor? you lived a good life.
This is how many times they use this voice.
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They use it because the person who wrote the story didnt want to use their voice
It should be 229 accuracy
They use voice actors for confidentially, I’ll dumb it down, privacy of the person that the story happened to.
@@olliewilliams5564 i know, and thanks, im dumb
Oh so around ur age OHHHHHHHHH
huh, I think I have hypochondria. Not as severe as her tho
Yeah same.
Me too.
For a second there I thought she said “Mitochondria”
SIR MEOWS A LOT thats y I clicked lol
the powerhouse of the cell
yea lol.
*I a m t h e p o w e r h o u s e o f t h e c e l l*
Hypochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
I have this and it’s horrible..this soon leads to bad panic attacks and anexiety 🤦🏽♀️
Thats sad im sorry
You doing any better? I’m trying to find some hope as I’m going through the process of being diagnosed with Hypochondria- (I already KNOW I have it though)
4:18 you’re right not to trust the doctor, he’s a clone!!!
Really..it just different times of where he is-
But I get the joke
@@goofygoober4531 Then, a half woooosh
r/woo-
Oh, goody. Another tinfoil hat wearing Looney. 😒😒
@@elizabethescalante7866 wtf
@@elizabethescalante7866 r/woooosh
Me: Acne
Everyone: Dirty skin
Doctor: Puberty
Google/Mayo Clinic: Common symptoms include whiteheads, blackheads, papules, pustules, comedones rosacea or cysts and nodules which may require medical attention.
This condition may be treated but cannot be cured and should be referred to the nearest dermatologist or pharmacist
Me:it is just a sneezing
Dad:it is just a sneezing
Specialist: :it is just a sneezing
Doctor Google: RIP
hi hope you have had a great week
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I see you EVERYWHERE, and your artworks are so great!!!
@Savannah mcgowan bruh. Well i didn't mean it as a threat. 🐫💨💩
@Savannah mcgowan ok, cool.
*doctor:you have cough*
*Dad:you have cough*
*Google:I am sorry.Your time has come.*
Me: *my throat hurts*
My mom: *its a simple strep throat*
Doctor: *mhm.*
Google: *hope u said your prayers.*
Omg I just realized I'm a minute late.
2020 edit: hhHhHh i forgot about this comment lmao
Im an hour late to reply to ur commment
I’m 2 hours late
Don’t worry, it is minute videos.. 👌👌
Wot
Lol
I don’t know what to comment but have a great day
Arwen you too!
THIS IS ME! Not the family problems, I always think I’m sick! But yeah this made me feel so much better thank you ❤️❤️
I'm a hypochondriac. I tend to google my symptoms then regret it right after because I over think everything.
Same 😶
Who is so early that they don’t know what to comment?
You
"How could he not diagnose me CORECTLY?"
me: girl, you really want to be sick THAT BAD? -^-
It's about the fear... the pain... the terror... the nightmares, the questions of wanting to not live, feeling you'd be better off dead but being AFRAID to die...
Her: *Vomits*
Her dad: ur fine
Her doctor: ur fine
Google: _GET OUT WHILE U STILL CAN_
If you are reading this have a nice day and you will be rich👍👍
PLEASE READ!!!
I also have that because i was diagnosed with low potassium and 2 years ago my fingers would always go down each night and my legs will feel weak. Then one night in 2019 i felt super week my neck will go down and i couldn't move i couldn't even talk. We went to the hospital and they told me i had low potassium. I stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks. When i got back home i will always get panic attacks each night and every little pain i had i will google it. This sucks😞. And btw im 12.
Thanks for reading this God bless you!
I’m glad you made this video because I finally have someone to relate to without telling people how I’m feeling.
So that's what it's called.
I was always wondering why I was always scared of every disease I heard about. And it's infuriating that I can't stop it. If something hurts or if I feel bad I get very scared and when I Google it I gets even worse. I tried telling my parents that I need help but they just call me paranoid and tell me to stop being scared.
Welp it's not that easy.
Same age. Same experience, although I'm not diagnosed yet and it is not as bad as hers. Ever since I was 10, I thought I had breast cancer even though its practically impossible for someone that young to have that disease. Whenever I feel slight or unusual changes on my body or if I feel slight discomfort or pain, I immediately think of it as cancer or whatever diseases, I always imagine the worst. I always google my symptoms and it doesn't help at all. It gets to the point that I think about my future, if I'm even going to live long enough and stuff like that. Thank you so much for sharing your story, I can relate a lot and it doesn't make me feel alone.
And this is why you should also look after your body and yourself more than you look after other people
I have the same thing I ended up diagnosed with ocd but I obsess over health and would google for hours at a time at one point I was bossing over my pulse and compulsively checking my pulse to reassure I was fine. I understand fully what she’s going through in terms of health obsessions
Thank you Thank you Thank you because this is exactly how felt when my mom died with cancer i couldnt stop worrrying and im working on it but it is not easy thank for sharing this story
Me: *Sneezes*
Parents: it’s just a cold
Doctor: it’s just a cold
Google: you have every kind of cancer and you’re going to die in 372518 seconds
I am older and I literally have had this since I was 8. Thank you for sharing this
I read the title as "My Worries Turned To Mitochondria"...
I've been having too many science classes.
Dad: It’s fine.
Doctor: your okay!
Google: *Get the funeral ready!*
It only gets worse if you have this disorder because if you're sure you have a certain disease, you'll start feeling things that really aren't there, like specific types of pain, just because you read about it and your body thinks that's what it's supposed to feel.
It also works the other way around. If someone gave you a candy and said it was medication to make your headache go away, it might actually go away because your body automatically shuts down the pain thinking it's because of "medication".
I am worring too... I am trying not to worry.. so people enjoy your life and dont stress over little things!
i saw hypochondria and thought mitochondria
*my worries turned into a mitochondria*
I guess that would be a good thing then because you would be an absolute powerhouse 😂
Who came here before a million views?
Titles:
*My Worries Turned Into Hypochondria*
*The Internet Made My Hypochondria Much Worse*
*My Worries Turned Into Hypochondria*
Me: has pain in foot
Literally everyone : you're growing
Doctor google : you have a brain tumor
How very interesting. One who is overwhelmed about overall health and well being
I lost something very important to me too. It was like a piece of my body. It was my appendix.
Who thought hypochondria was a disease? 😂
Thats why I always say :
NEVER BE TOO SERIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING .
JUST ENJOY YOUR LIFE AND TAKE IT EASILY.
I also have hypochondria, I never went to a doctor or anything though cause of money issues. It absolutely SUCKS.
I have chronic migraines, so I’m to believe that I have a brain tumor, especially since I’ve experience some of the symptoms.
I experienced chest pains before, and I thought I was having heart issues.
I get cysts, cysts can be a sign of cancer. Now I’m panicking, thanks for updating me mom on that.
Looking up symptoms are the worst, every time I feel the slightest of pain anywhere, or I get sick, I look up the symptoms. When I find something severe that includes my symptoms, I start panicking like crazy, I mentioned myself being a hypochondriac but my parents don’t seem to care, we don’t have money to see a doctor or anything so that’s maybe why.
This is basically me.
Since my grandmother died I have been 100 % sure I had throat cancer, non hodgkin lymphoma, lung cancer, skin cancer, cancer in my leg, cancer in my neck and, of course, brain cancer. The thing is that while I know it's not real, my mind doesn't accept that conclusion but sticks with it's own. I've noticed it's mostly stress related, meaning that every time I'm experiencing a lot of stress it gets worse.
The worst part is I'm actually experiencing the symptoms I associate with the disease I feel I'm having. The mind is powerful thing. It can easily assure me I have trouble swallowing or that I can't breathe properly, as long as I "remember" to focus on it. Just when I realise I haven't been feeling ill because I forgot to focus on my "sympoms", they're back. I can spend weeks in this vicious cycle.
Don't even get me started with how hard a life can be if you're constantly thinking you're going to die very soon. Sometimes it's just impossible to focus on living because of sadness of that thought, sometimes it's just horribly scary. I have had panic attacks because of the thought I was coughing blood after eating spaghetti with tomato souce. I have jumped awake in the middle of the night in full panic because I have been too deep in my toughts about my own mortality.
I don't seek medical help to my symptoms, though. I used to, but when I realised it was all in my head, I stopped it because getting exams for non-existing symptoms was way more stressfull and caused me more worrying than not going to see the doctor. I have been getting my throat checked more times I want to admit, have been calling to my doctor for asthma medication and even had colonoscopy for absolutely nothing. But sometimes it gets out of hand on the other way. Sometimes I'm terribly afraid to go to see the doctor and being told I'm sick. Just last week I canceled a dentist appoinment because I was sure she would find some cancer from my mouth. The supposed cancer I forgot immediately when I cancel it.
I was seeing the therapist for three years and she helped me quite a bit. I know the ways I can relieve my stress and talk my mind out of worrying for nothing. I still can't make a difference between false symptoms created in my head and the real physical ones. Only way I can live a proper life is by deciding to ignore the symptoms and try to live a normal life. If the symptoms don't stop me living my normal life, then I guess my mind can sometimes let them go.
I'll say it's super hard to live in the world where every news outlet has health sections with big headlines yelling YOU MAY HAVE A CANCER! DON'T PASS THESE SYMPTOMS! I just try to ignore them and do the exact opposite. I know I may be risking myself of actually having some deadly disease and not get it checked in time, but I am willing to take that risk. I find it comforting to know that regular cancer check-ups and current treatment for cancer actually have pretty little affect on the overall mortality rate on those diseases anyway, so I chances are I'm gonna be okay.
I still have a way better chance to die tomorrow in a car crash than die for a cancer that could have been treated if had detected in time.
Shet since 2014 that I started watching this channel
2019 I finally subscribed to this channel
Something like this happened to me in 7th grade (although I wasn't diagnosed with it; I was more on the worried side than actually reaching out to a doctor multiple times like a real hypochondriac would). It all started with a rash that started from my hands (which was caused my over washing, which was true; I did over wash my hands a lot). From there on, I constantly panicked on whatever minor happened to my body, thinking it was huge. My biggest fears were leukemia, amputation, going bind and deaf, and heart attacks. I was terrified of catching an illness because I didn't want to die young. Fortunately, my family is friends with a doctor, and he was able to talk me through my problems, and why I shouldn't worry about the illnesses that I fear about (like what they really are, cause, treatment, etc). For those of you guys going through a smilier situation, personally, I would advise you to talk to someone, and understand better about medical illnesses. I hope this helps :)
Titles:
1. My worries turned into Hypochondria
2. The internet made my Hypochondria worse
3. My dad trusted him to cure me.
Me: i have a runny nose
Doctors: she has a runny nose
Google: you have corrupted harddrive.
Titles So Far -
My worries turned to hypochondria
the hypochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Doctor : you’re fine
Dad : you’re fine
Google : you’re dead
I relate so much. I’m terrified of getting sick and it gives me the worst anxiety. The thoughts are so whirl winding.
I thought I was the only one with this. It not exactly same, but everyday since a day 2 years ago I have been worrying that I’m going to throw up. It’s all I can think about and I’m constantly going to the nurse at school pleading to go home because I’m so nauseous. The other day I almost threw up and I almost passed out from fear. I went to the doctor and they said nothing is wrong but I didn’t believe them. I thought something was actually wrong and I was actually physically ill. I’ve come to terms with my nausea and I found out that it’s just mental and I have to try to not think about it.
i have this too except for it was my dad who died from cancer when i was 6 and most of my family followed. it wasn’t until i turned 12 that i started having daily panic attacks about my breathing, lungs, appendix, etc.also my mom never believed me and always yells at me for it and says it’s my fault because i “decided” to have anxiety. she took me to the doctor only once for what i thought was a broken rib. another time i almost convinced my grandma to take me to the ER for a heart attack and i made them take me to get my blood pressure examined.
In case the title changes
My worries turned into hypochondria
I saw hypochondia and thought mitochondria.
I thought this was gonna be about science lmao.
This video made me cry and I've been told that I am cold hearted so congrats to this video
I'm also a hypochondriac with severe anxiety and emetophobia. Not fun. I can't go thirty minutes without worrying that I have something. I have my parents check my temperature every morning because they hid the thermometer and I also have them assure me that I'm not gonna die every night. I always wish at 11:11 am/pm.
Google doesn't help most of the time.
I totally relate to this! I used to be a hypochondriac too, and Google honestly made things 10 times worse!
My mom called my name while she was in the bedroom. I said "yeah mom?" No answer. I went into the bedroom to see her leaning over the bed she wasn't breathing her lips were turning blue and she was dying. I called 911 and they told me that I had to lift her up and get her on the floor so I dragged my own mom off the bed onto the floor. "I said what do I do now?" They told me to start doing compressions to her chest while counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4!! I kept doing this till the paramedics came. It took them 6 mins to come which felt like an eternity! They took her to the hospital but she died 7 hours later. She had a massive heart attack. Now I can't leave my house. I have PTSD and agoraphobia. Then in 2015 my Dad told me he wasn't feeling well and he felt like he was losing consciousness. To my absolute horror he went into cardiac arrest and I had to perform CPR on him just like my mom. But this time I knew what to do even before calling nine-one-one because of what happened to my mom. Because of that they were able to shock him back and he lived he's still alive today. Now I'm basically catatonic living in my house I can't leave during the day I'm on a bunch of different medications that don't work and then I see stories like these on RUclips and knowing that it's fake just pisses me off because there really people out there like me, going through this kind of stuff. It's cruel in my opinion. This channel is cruel.
Desiree Abell I completely understand you. Any tiny symptom I’m worried I have a terminal or deadly illness. It’s not something that happens every once in a while, it’s constant worry, every day, 24/7. I have to plug my ears if a commercial about health comes on. It’s debilitating. It pollutes my mind each and everyday. I’m tired all the time from anxiety attacks. I’m scared I have something seriously wrong with me even though I’m 19. I’ve had it since I was a kid. I remember having a buzzing noise in my ears when I was a kid and remember crying about to my mom thinking I had mosquitos in my ears and I would cover my ears with a blanket while I slept. It’s just never gone away...
@@TessySega You have an anxiety disorder. Have you talked to your mom and dad and asked them if it runs in the family? It runs on both my parents sides. We're you ever taken away from your family for a short time suddenly? That's another reason.
Moral of the story:
Don’t google your god damn symptoms it’s common sense
Omg i feel so bad for you.
But
Dont
Remember
Your
STRONG!
Because you really are
When doctors see you as being a hypochondriac, it can really suck. I had 4 severely impacted wisdom teeth, and they had caused earaches, headaches, facial pains, jaw pains, and neck pains. But at that time I had not seen a dentist for 17 years, and so I first had set up an appointment with my GP. My GP said that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me at all, and that it was all just in my head. Thus they were seen as being the symptoms of a hypochondriac. So I found myself a good dentist to get a second opinion. He took the x-rays and then informed me that I did not just have severely impacted wisdom teeth, but that they were so bad that they were medical "Text Book Classics", meaning that they were the same as or similar to those listed as those "Worst Case Possible" examples that you see in medical text books. He then set me up with an appointment at a hospital to have the wisdom teeth removed there, since it was far too dangerous to remove them at a dentists office. All 4 were removed at the hospital. Six months later, the same nasty symptoms reappeared. My guess was that I now had pus infections where the wisdom teeth use to be. Off I went to see a different GP to get some antibiotics. Before even having described all of the symptoms to the new GP, the doctor said, "Stop....Stop....Stop....What you are sir, is a hypochondriac.". I asked him what that meant, and he said that basically it means that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you, and that you are just making it all up. I immediately realized that this GP was a complete idiot, and so I proceeded to set up an appointment with the oral surgeon who had removed the wisdom teeth back at the hospital. The oral surgeon in no way whatsoever rejected my words as I informed him of the symptoms. He then told me to open my mouth, and then using one finger he squeezed the gum where one of the wisdom teeth used to be. Out comes his finger with a big blob of white pus on it. Then he said, "This is the cause of all of your nasty symptoms, and we have to give you a shot of antibiotics in the butt RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, plus I will also give you a prescription for further antibiotics. By this time my face was starting to take on the shape of a bowling ball, due to the infections now causing an overall facial swelling. Thus in cases like this, you should always get at least a second opinion !
Storyboard: Duke THAT IS MY LAST NAME!
Did no one tell this girl about
Puberty?
I am so glad this video is up. I have health anxiety and I kept running back and forth to the doctors over stomach pains and dizziness. It makes me feel like I’m not alone, thank you 🙏
I became a hypochondriac with my kids lol. Everytime my 3yo got sick or acted different I would take her to the hospital, and I somewhat did that with our youngest. Now that they no longer have medicaid, I don't do that anymore. If something definitely didn't seem right about them I would take them to the hospital, but at this time, I just treat symptoms if anything comes up and they are usually better the next day. Last time I took my 3yo to the hospital was when she had strep, but that was an irritating time. The hospital I always went to with her didn't even look at her throat and just jumped to a diagnosis without really testing her. Then she got worse, and she fought the next hospital when they took the strep test which made the test come back negative. I then took her to a clinic, where they did the strep test again and that came back positive. What was bad about that was, since I didn't know it was strep that entire time, I had let her drink any drink of mine, and I ended up getting strep as well. And then online said that if strep goes untreated for a long time, kidney failure can happen. So I was mad as hell at the first hospital we went to for not even looking at her throat, when I told them she wasn't eating. It could have been caught early and she never would've gotten as bad as she did. Her temperature was 103, she was in so much pain and wouldn't eat, diarrhea was horrible cause of how runny it was and how often she did it, she ended up with a terrible rash from that, and one night she woke up basically every hour. It was a nightmare lol. But I know now who to take the kids to if they ever seem to be in bad shape. Which thankfully it's been a year lol.
For me it’s hereditary. I am a third generation hypochondriac. My mom has it and my grandpa had it. But with me it’s in the most severe form. I would focus on something and the more I think of it the more my brain fabricates symptoms that aren’t even there. For example one time when I was 12 I thought I had lung cancer because I was coughing and when I thought about it I felt like I couldn’t breathe properly although it was completely psychological. One night I felt a lump in my jaw and I panicked and cried after seeing that it could be lymphoma but then I touched the other side and it felt the same. It was just my lymph nodes… another time my head was hurting for a week and even after visiting a neurologist I googled it and screamed and cried believing that I for sure have a brain tumour. Then I went to the neurologist again and she said nothing was wrong once again. And in the end it ended up being nothing. But it’s so torturous.
once i was crying at my friends birthday party because i had a headache and thought it was a brain tumor and when i wanted to get a head ct and my mom said no i got rly mad and when the doctor got a sinus ct for something else i still didn't believe i was ok.
It all started when we were talking about cancer awareness in high school, than while I was eating a burger I tasted something salty and thought it just some salt but when I got home I did the most stupidest thing and Googled it and it said: Blood in your mouth can taste salty and if you have it you have hiv, I got terrified and kept on researching and it said things like I had cancer and so I decided to start checking my weight and it went from 46.4 to 45.6 and I got rlly stressed so I kept searching and it said: Cancer Can have *Unintensional weight loss* I started to cry when I realised I had enough so I told my parents and they were the best, they understood me so much and told me how to cope, they banned my google to stop me from googling and it was all fine , but then I pulled a random hair from my eyebrow and thought that wasn’t normal so I went on Instagram and loads of things saying it was a sign of cancer and I got more scared. Currently still being a hypochondriac but I feel fine
I 100% understand this story. It is a really tough thing to deal with, but you can get through it
I do the same thing working about getting ill and after watching this makes me feel better
Parents,doctor,god: its just a rash
Google:you got cancer
r/im14andthisisdeep
but I’m truly sorry for what you’ve gone through💕 be strong❤️
Me: sneezed
Parents: it’s a cold
Doctors: it’s a cold
Google: YOU’VE ALREADY DIED
A family member lied to the drs and said I had this. I have chronic illnesses that are Dx. They were looking for answers then and found rare issues. I know my body
this story is kinda relatable whenever something hurts me for a short period of time i always panick and think i have a disease
I recently thought my appendix ruptured, I was so worried, but it was nothing
I honestly suffer from the same mentality, seeing this video the first thing when I woke up made my day
I'll stop being like this i hope so lol
Your story helped me
*I have a serious obsession*
Caleb Finn❤
This just shows that life is all about balance! Yes take care of yourself obviously. But when you worry about your health this much the stress can literally make you sick, like physically sick. Anything overly done can be bad!
Me: literally skins off half my toe and walks off like a boss
earthworm sally: passage
me: can i die now
mother: YOUR OVER SEEING THINGS
I’ve never met anyone this self conscious about healthiness I-
My father thought I was a hypochondriac. At first I thought so too. However, after I had recovered from my UTI earlier this year, I noticed I was having really bad stomach pains. It got so bad that I had went to the hospital at least twice for it. I've had numerous CT scans. My parents thought I was going crazy, because doctors couldn't figure out what was going on. Finally, my mother got tired of it, and she told me to ask for my medical history. I did, and I found out that they had discovered diverticulosis in my digestive system, which most likely explains the abdominal pain. Not ONCE have they told me what they found. For all I know is that they found it in the first CT scan I had. I don't 100% distrust doctors after that, but I'd rather see things for myself.
I have hypochondria, I'm scared of death because I'm only 21 and want to live my life. If you have hypochondria it doesn't necessarily mean that you are healthy, you can also have illnesses like anyone. I think there is something wrong with my body, every day I have panic attacks because I feel like I can't breathe, and when my heart beats faster I'm afraid it will stop. Maybe it's too much but I think living it's too hard for my body. I'm afraid I won't wake up the next morning when I sleep, I'm afraid to faint with no one there to help me, or having a heart attack. Sometimes I think I have a problem with my heart or with my lungs. I really want to live without being so afraid, but I also would like to be sure my body is ok. I love my life
Do you get heart aches and palpitations?
@@arianalopez690 yes, when I have panic attacks. But now I don't have them as much as two years ago.