One thing that I have learned from her is that you have to sit with your symptoms there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The biggest battle is mental. I hope everyone watching her videos or experience health anxiety like I do gets better, I pray that everyone of you find a sense of peace and happiness
@@Team920_ It was twitching on body, preceived weakness, bulging disk in neck, tingling and burning sensations,pain from neck to hand, anxiety, stiffness in hand, went to multiple doctors, seen a neurologist, had an EMG done everything was normal. But mentally I still was panicking until one health specialist look me in my eye and went over everything I was experiencing and told me and made me believe I am ok. been dealing with this for 10 months, once time passes you will feel a lot better, Cherelle told me that time will be the best healer and it is . Now things have gotten back to normal
You are literally a lifesaver. I have never been able to calm my health anxiety. I would say mine is pretty extreme. Every time I watch your videos I have such a sense of calm and peace because I know I’m not alone in this. It gives me the strength to keep going. Health anxiety is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced and I’m so happy to have found you. 😭❤️
I am currently in the emergency department (watching this video 😩) because I’ve had chest pains for over a week and I’ve done all of my coping mechanisms at home and sat with my symptoms and I finally convinced myself that I NEED to solve this problem. I almost feel guilty for giving in to my symptoms, but I’m so uncomfortable that I’m convinced it’s something serious. Having health anxiety is debilitating and your videos have helped me in so many ways that I can’t thank you enough, but unfortunately even with all of the knowledge behind what health anxiety is we still ruminate and develop chaos that we end up giving in to sometimes. I hope everybody here heals and continues to grow in their journey with health anxiety! Thank you for your videos!
@@arrencybiey4021 I hope that you are feeling better and the pain was stress related, which is bad enough but hopefully passed. I can't pray for you because I don't believe in any God, but I do send you my very best wishes.
It’s been hard for me .. I take medicine 2 times a day to help me get through my symptoms and anxiety .. I constantly have fear and I cry so much like I feel like I need to go to the hospital.. I have a therapist and she’s doing her best to help me 😞
Just discovered your channel. I'm really impressed, and would have liked to have found you years ago. Subscribed of course. Thanks for your important contribution.
thank you so much, i found your videos when my friend mentioned that my behaviour was very reminiscent of health anxiety; i started spiraling when a doctor told me to "google this condition, you have it" and it's gone downhill for me for about a year or so. now that i'm aware about my self-sabotaging behaviour, i feel confident in breaking the cycle. many blessings to you ❤
I’ve been keeping a list lately of all my health anxiety fears from this past fall and the list is so long. Keeping a list helps me see the pattern I’ve been stuck in. Each time a new symptom or worry comes it feels the most real, but looking back at the list I can see the pattern I am in. I’ve been dealing with sensorimotor ocd and health anxiety. It’s very hard but I see light at end of tunnel.
@@Team920_ I’ve had so many different symptoms and have a whole list of things I thought I had. It’s funny cause I look back at the list and think it was silly I was convinced I had this or that at the time, but then my brain will be preoccupied with a current and new fear. I never really had health anxiety until this past fall. It’s definitely the most difficult thing I’ve faced in my life. It can really consume one and feel isolating. I am optimistic and hopeful I will overcome it.
@@Andrea-ky9lh I'm sorry you had to experience this and if you're still going through it . What would you say were or are your worse and or most strange symptoms? I ask because I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy but I have tons of strange symptoms that don't match my diagnosis
Listening and crying because you are describing exactly what people like us are going through from a place of knowing what it’s like. That’s so important because I can take advice from you as you have lived this experience
I just wanted to say that your videos are extremely helpful. Knowing what is actually going on in our brains help put the fear in check. And I'm going to take what you say to heart. Im going to stop googling and stop going to the ER. I'm going to give myself that 24-48 hours. I know I'm going to have to come back to these videos. But thank you so much for putting these out there and soothing my mind.
I stopped googling long ago because I realised its the worst thing to do. I had therapy at my GP practice and online therapy too, I started to feel good again. But when they were over, there was lots of triggers around me, my symptoms got worse than before… I decided to go again for blood test I had to wait 4 weeks for appointment. And this waiting made me feel like crap I have headache for long time now and dizziness. With other symptoms too… I went for my GP appointment and I had to wait a week for blood test…. I had my blood test and now I need to make appointment because of my Vit D, which isn’t something scary at all. But all this makes me feel like is my last days of my life 😅. I will call to make appointment tomorrow and see what happens next and how long I need to wait… So your video is so related to me right now because I am definitely sabotaging myself. Thanks for your video Cherelle ❤
Everytime I feel that something is wrong with me I immediately go to one of your videos and it does make me understand what anxiety can do. So glad I found you.
Perimenopause. My one way ticket to the most extreme health anxiety I've EVER had. The symptoms come thick and fast the further along into it you get as the hormones change and your estrogen leaves your body that it needs to function on every level and without it, declines rapidly!... you literally don't know your own body anymore and you are continually on high alert....its hell. So many women develop health anxiety during this time of life and listening to you just now, is me, every minute of every day! Thanks for the reminder to sometimes just sit and see.....thank you 🙏
Omg!! Yesss!! I still have a hard time believing one day you can feel fine the next, muscle twitching, joint and muscle pain, waking up with anxiety and spinning outta control. Then you hope, Dr. Goggle will help explain only to find you think you've got some disease or your days are numbered. I've been in this health anxiety for about a year, and it's hell some days. At least I know we are not alone. I pray for us all 🙏
@@alicereed5368 Hi 👋 I could have written that exact same post Alice! I'm sorry you're suffering the misery of perimenopause too. But comforting to know we are NOT alone. Millioms upon millions of women are in our boat. Crazy isn't it. Google is helpful to look up symptoms and learn they are common with peri or look up the lesser known ones too which I seem to get alot of...typical! 😆 but if you suffer from anxiety as a person anyway, perimenopause will always make that worse....worrying over symptoms, but your anxiety made worse by the falling of estrogen......and that morning anxiety is pure hell isn't it? No one can prepare you for what this time if life will put you through.....and as women, why are we not told!?? So much support online though for which I'm grateful. Anyway my friend...hang in there. 🫂
@@raymarriss2440 Hi Ray. I am 49. I was around your age when my periods started to noticeably change. It's one of the first symptoms that you're entering perimenopause. You may find your periods from now on will become more all over the place, early, late, on time, missed entirely some months and the further along you go, you may find they are lighter or much heavier....all normal. I found it helpful to keep a period diary. I started one age 43. Kept a diary for years of every single period, what date it was due, when it actually arrived (so then made a note how late or sometimes early) how it was (heavy, light, painful) looking back at it now....I'm glad I did it. It's good for you to know your body and what it's doing. You will slowly come to learn that things are changing. It's very gradual.... Eventually like I am now, you will go months and months without one....I've been a year with no period so I'm very close to leaving perimenopause and going into menopause..... They say a year without a period and that indicates it.....but a period can randomly show up just when you think you're done! I'm in full on perimenopause now. Have been experiencing the classic and not so classic symptoms for the last year..... Unfortunately blood tests often come back normal as there is no definitive test for perimenopause. Doctors tend to go on symptoms. You may well be in perimenopause but bloods will be normal. Its only in actual menopause your bloods will show levels to indicate menopause. In perimenopause your hormones are so completely all over the place, a blood test is not a true indicator as its a snap shot on that day.....the next day it could be different......so don't worry about the bloods. Sounds to me you're just entering the starts with your irregular periods.....but obvs, I'm not a doctor so any concerns do see your gp. Best wishes x
@@dorothygale5032 Do you have paresthesia too (like an insect crawling on you or pins and needles)? I'm 42 and I've had a lot of tingling-like symptoms for almost two years, I don't know if they're hormone related but they're really worrying me.
Thank you for all your work with health anxiety. Really working on sitting with my symptoms today. Even giving therapy a go here in the states although I find myself repeating the same things over and over with her and not getting much help with how to deal with anxiety or any actionable advice. Any advice on how to know if your therapist is a good fit?
One major thing we all need to understand is health anxiety becomes PTSD and is OCD. It’s the need for control connected to fears. The body hears the mind especially For ppl like us. The body follows. For me my skin gets affected by health anxiety where ever I’m worried my skin hurts. My body pulls the blood from the area and the skin dries up and hurts 24/7 which is what makes the looping thoughts go on
I've had the worst time of my life earlier. A month ago I started having headaches, forehead pain, high fever and cough. Headaches and fever only lasted 2 days but other symptoms stayed for a while. so I decided to visit a family doctor. She told me there was possibly a sinus problem since I have a deviated septum. But my anxiety was so so high that my pulse went sky high (145) so she freaked out and told me I could die any minute if my pulse was this high all the time. I told her it was only because of my anxiety but her words scarred me deeply. ( even though I've been to a heart doc before and i know my heart is perfectly healthy). So it turns out I have a severe,chronic sinusutis. They prescribed me 10 pills of antibiotics and some other stuff. But her words about my heart scared me so much that I couldn't think about anything else for 3 days straight. went to the doctors on Monday, dealt with huge stress,on Wednesday evening my blood pressure suddenly dropped (70/50) and I could barely stand, I wasn't feeling dizzy but more like super lightheaded and I went into panic mode so that didn't help. I took some medications and it went back to normal after 15-20 mins but I started having tension headaches and couldn't concentrate for 4-5 days. day by day they were getting better and better and now i am fine but i still have trouble concentrating because i am anxious about brain tumors. even tho i know it was caused by high level of anxiety,low blood pressure and severe sinus infection, I am still scared as hell...
I have health anxiety and I self sabotage not only with this part of my anxiety but with dating and over thinking and pushing people away. It sucks big time
Was there a specific medication you was given at the start I have been given medication today for my anxiety and panic and just wondering what worked best for you in those early days
Thank you for your videos ❤ i wrote about my anxiety bully: My Poem To My Anxiety: Today…How are you feeling? How are you feeling she say? My therapist, is she my saviour? Each week I do pray, For a way, For a change, A cure for this pain, See it may seem invisible and though I look calm on the outside, I’m torn, I’m scared, I am infact, very, afraid. Because on the inside I feel symptoms that keep me at bay. They stop me to work, to create, to live for the day. How do I explain such a thing, how do I trust in the words that they say? Doc says you're okay, it's just anxiety, it'll soon pass, it'll just go away. But it can't, it's just not right it has to be more, but Jamie the tests do not lie, please come back here no more! Each time that i visit, each test and each scan, should put my mind at ease and I beg doctors for a plan. Please, keep me away, I'm just being a burden to the NHS, on yet another wasteful day. I want to believe this is normal, that I am not quite alone, that one day I will look back and laugh at these problems I'm shown. But my mind is ever powerful and rather overbearing, it says look what's the hurry? there is more time for this health anxiety worry. I should be grateful for what I have got and have the strength to carry on being confident and on top! But sometimes I have no control for these attacks as they are ever so random, they have no consideration for my life, my feelings they hit me in tandem. I know I am fine, and clever you see, but I doubt myself too and often find it unbearable just to be me, to do simple tasks is hard to complete, like walking inside a shop and/or trying to just eat. But keep the faith, it will be IT that will lose. I will battle with this demon and indeed panic I will pursue. But as for today, how am I feeling? Like I can battle no more when I am healing? No, you are wrong for I have much fight left deep in me, just wait there anxiety for I am not finished with thee!
Hello! Lymphs are a huge fear for many. I have a bean or smaller ball side of my neck that is movable, since February. It never got bigger at times actually feels a bit smaller. My Dr isn't worried and I even ask my daughter's ENT specialist on it, he felt it, and said that the chance of it being something sinister is very very slim.. At this point should I see another Dr or just not worry on it
I’ve had the same issue. It ended up being benign fatty tissue. My doctors have checked it twice and I’m still worried at times but since I have gotten it checked more than once I’m trying to trust that it’s nothing like they say it is. Keep an eye on it but I would not panic. I know exactly how you’re feeling.
Thank you!!! My Dr doesn't seem worried about it , but I have horrible health anxiety. Always feeling it, which I'm sure doesn't help it. Take care... thanks for sharing ❤
I'm struggling with the same fear right now. I'm a lot better these last days, thanks God. It all started when I was coughing, than I found some little beans in my chest. I didn't know what lymph was, but Dr. Google did that job to me. I had health anxiety before, in 2018, but as always "this time may be real", I thought. The fact is, I'm getting better, fighting my urge to find doctorS. I mean, it's small, movable, as you. So, you gone to doctors, they work with it, they studied it, trust them and move on. Do not let health anxiety steal your life. You're healthy. We are. God bless you!
my health anxiety stops me going to get real help because im scared they will find something. so i google to try and find things to make me feel better about what it is im worried about...i try to not google now which has helped me...i was fine until i got diagnosed with t2d and i reversed it within 6 months and my dr was amazed phoning me laughing saying your blood work is not even pre diabetes and 2 years later im still non diabetic....but that has made me think i have other things mainly cancer my submandular glands both sides under my jaw got hard and i can move them and sometimes they are smaller and i cant really feel them and when i workout eat or have a hot shower they go normal i cant feel them and when i cold plunge i cant feel them its mainly when im sat still..i try to get my partner to feel them and she cant even feel them but i know they are slightly harder...im constantly touching and checking my neck and hers sometimes..i wish i was brave enough to just go get tested but like i said im scared of what they will find....so draining
So you're the avoidant type of HA. Me too. It seems like this is the less talked about and presumably less common form of HA over the type where you're constantly going to the doctor and/or the ER.
I need help. For the past two years I had health anxiety, specifically fear of the c word, however it went away the last year. Just recently today I heard one of my brother’s friend got diagnosed with cancer and they given him only a year to live and now my fear is resurfacing back up. 😭
What do you do if your symptoms are present constantly unless you’re completely distracted? I’ve had so many tests done and the doctors say they can’t find anything but the symptoms are relentless. I feel like I have a mystery problem no one can diagnose
I have similar feelings along with weird face tingling and other little aches and pains. I can say, I still struggle, but once you tell yourself in your mind that you’ve been feeling this for a long time, and nothing bad has happened, so this is the exact same feeling, so nothing bad is going to happen. I’m no expert, and am still actively dealing with this day to day, but really try hard to think about the last time you felt the pain and if anything bad happened. That has helped me get some relief. Also, it helps me to come and look at a video here anytime I start feeling off. This is for two reasons, 1 being that the videos are super helpful, and 2 being that you slowly start to realize you aren’t the only one dealing with this. It makes me feel better knowing I’m not alone. I hope this helps.
I really wish someone can give me somekind of clarifications, I am a health anxiety sufferer, please can someone tell me why is it that, each time am scared about an illness , say brain tumor or chest tidness my body immediately start hurting at thesame spot am worried about, if is a brain tumor, my head will start paining, if it's chest tideness then my chest starts paining , when I was all fine in the first place.
I get a tingling feeling in my head and I panic that I might be having a stroke and thinking that makes the tingling worse and it sends me in a spiral 😢
Hey Cherelle , I really need your help PLEASE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT , i have a bean shaped lymphnode under my jaw (submandibular lymphnode) but it seems to be more than 1cm when i grab it , please HELPPP
Hello, Are you ok now? Often lymph nodes can swell for a time in the jaw if you had a minor infection or mouth ulcer. Even if you have brushed your teeth and caused a tiny injury to the gum. Lots of reasons. Please try not to worry.
I have had the flu and chest infection for a few days. Anyone else would lie in bed and get better. I worry about it which makes it a million times worse! Lifes too short for this
I don’t google or any of it. My health anxiety at this point is PTSD bc of what my brain does to my body and my life. It never just goes away either for ppl with health anxiety. It truly self resolves with time sadly. It’s bc it dominates all your thoughts
I'd like to also point out that once the googling stops then I move on to self help videos just like this one I really appreciate your content but I believe there's a point where you need to stop the self help videos it's not the same as googling symptoms but looking at them all the time keeps you thinking about anxiety
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One thing that I have learned from her is that you have to sit with your symptoms there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The biggest battle is mental. I hope everyone watching her videos or experience health anxiety like I do gets better, I pray that everyone of you find a sense of peace and happiness
Hi what symptoms have you been experiencing
@@Team920_
It was twitching on body, preceived weakness, bulging disk in neck, tingling and burning sensations,pain from neck to hand, anxiety, stiffness in hand, went to multiple doctors, seen a neurologist, had an EMG done everything was normal. But mentally I still was panicking until one health specialist look me in my eye and went over everything I was experiencing and told me and made me believe I am ok. been dealing with this for 10 months, once time passes you will feel a lot better, Cherelle told me that time will be the best healer and it is . Now things have gotten back to normal
I hope that everyone who has health anxiety recovers from it.
Thank you ❤
You are literally a lifesaver. I have never been able to calm my health anxiety. I would say mine is pretty extreme. Every time I watch your videos I have such a sense of calm and peace because I know I’m not alone in this. It gives me the strength to keep going. Health anxiety is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced and I’m so happy to have found you. 😭❤️
I am currently in the emergency department (watching this video 😩) because I’ve had chest pains for over a week and I’ve done all of my coping mechanisms at home and sat with my symptoms and I finally convinced myself that I NEED to solve this problem. I almost feel guilty for giving in to my symptoms, but I’m so uncomfortable that I’m convinced it’s something serious. Having health anxiety is debilitating and your videos have helped me in so many ways that I can’t thank you enough, but unfortunately even with all of the knowledge behind what health anxiety is we still ruminate and develop chaos that we end up giving in to sometimes. I hope everybody here heals and continues to grow in their journey with health anxiety! Thank you for your videos!
Hope you are feeling better and the pains resolved. Good luck.
Currently have it right know .I am fighting with myself😢
@@arrencybiey4021 Hang in there, perhaps binge on these videos until it passes. Easier said than done I know. Wishing that you feel better very soon.
@@debraraby4376 thank you for the kind word ❤Currently at ER because my symptoms gets worse .pls pray for me .
@@arrencybiey4021 I hope that you are feeling better and the pain was stress related, which is bad enough but hopefully passed. I can't pray for you because I don't believe in any God, but I do send you my very best wishes.
Your channel is a blessing. I’ve been dealing with horrible health anxiety and I’m so grateful for your videos.
We can and we will get through this. One day at s time . Your not ever alone , give it to God and keep moving forward. 🙏💪
It’s been hard for me .. I take medicine 2 times a day to help me get through my symptoms and anxiety .. I constantly have fear and I cry so much like I feel like I need to go to the hospital.. I have a therapist and she’s doing her best to help me 😞
Just discovered your channel. I'm really impressed, and would have liked to have found you years ago. Subscribed of course. Thanks for your important contribution.
thank you so much, i found your videos when my friend mentioned that my behaviour was very reminiscent of health anxiety; i started spiraling when a doctor told me to "google this condition, you have it" and it's gone downhill for me for about a year or so. now that i'm aware about my self-sabotaging behaviour, i feel confident in breaking the cycle. many blessings to you ❤
all your videos are so relatable help me realize I'm not alone, thank you for making these.
I’ve been keeping a list lately of all my health anxiety fears from this past fall and the list is so long. Keeping a list helps me see the pattern I’ve been stuck in. Each time a new symptom or worry comes it feels the most real, but looking back at the list I can see the pattern I am in. I’ve been dealing with sensorimotor ocd and health anxiety. It’s very hard but I see light at end of tunnel.
Hi what symptoms do you experience
@@Team920_ I’ve had so many different symptoms and have a whole list of things I thought I had. It’s funny cause I look back at the list and think it was silly I was convinced I had this or that at the time, but then my brain will be preoccupied with a current and new fear. I never really had health anxiety until this past fall. It’s definitely the most difficult thing I’ve faced in my life. It can really consume one and feel isolating. I am optimistic and hopeful I will overcome it.
@@Andrea-ky9lh I'm sorry you had to experience this and if you're still going through it . What would you say were or are your worse and or most strange symptoms?
I ask because I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy but I have tons of strange symptoms that don't match my diagnosis
Listening and crying because you are describing exactly what people like us are going through from a place of knowing what it’s like. That’s so important because I can take advice from you as you have lived this experience
I just wanted to say that your videos are extremely helpful. Knowing what is actually going on in our brains help put the fear in check. And I'm going to take what you say to heart. Im going to stop googling and stop going to the ER. I'm going to give myself that 24-48 hours. I know I'm going to have to come back to these videos. But thank you so much for putting these out there and soothing my mind.
I stopped googling long ago because I realised its the worst thing to do. I had therapy at my GP practice and online therapy too, I started to feel good again. But when they were over, there was lots of triggers around me, my symptoms got worse than before… I decided to go again for blood test I had to wait 4 weeks for appointment. And this waiting made me feel like crap I have headache for long time now and dizziness. With other symptoms too… I went for my GP appointment and I had to wait a week for blood test…. I had my blood test and now I need to make appointment because of my Vit D, which isn’t something scary at all. But all this makes me feel like is my last days of my life 😅. I will call to make appointment tomorrow and see what happens next and how long I need to wait… So your video is so related to me right now because I am definitely sabotaging myself. Thanks for your video Cherelle ❤
hope you're doing good !!
I feel awful every day. Ihave stopped googling etc. But always have pains somewhere.
me too
Everytime I feel that something is wrong with me I immediately go to one of your videos and it does make me understand what anxiety can do. So glad I found you.
Same here
Can you please talk about health anxiety while being sick?
This video was absolutely awesome, literally brilliant and makes so much sense. This helped me a lot. 🙏🏻
Perimenopause. My one way ticket to the most extreme health anxiety I've EVER had.
The symptoms come thick and fast the further along into it you get as the hormones change and your estrogen leaves your body that it needs to function on every level and without it, declines rapidly!... you literally don't know your own body anymore and you are continually on high alert....its hell.
So many women develop health anxiety during this time of life and listening to you just now, is me, every minute of every day! Thanks for the reminder to sometimes just sit and see.....thank you 🙏
Omg!! Yesss!! I still have a hard time believing one day you can feel fine the next, muscle twitching, joint and muscle pain, waking up with anxiety and spinning outta control. Then you hope, Dr. Goggle will help explain only to find you think you've got some disease or your days are numbered. I've been in this health anxiety for about a year, and it's hell some days. At least I know we are not alone. I pray for us all 🙏
What age may I ask. I'm 43 and my monthlys are starting to become more spread out. 45 days. My gyno checked my hormone levels and all was normal.
@@alicereed5368 Hi 👋 I could have written that exact same post Alice! I'm sorry you're suffering the misery of perimenopause too. But comforting to know we are NOT alone. Millioms upon millions of women are in our boat. Crazy isn't it. Google is helpful to look up symptoms and learn they are common with peri or look up the lesser known ones too which I seem to get alot of...typical! 😆 but if you suffer from anxiety as a person anyway, perimenopause will always make that worse....worrying over symptoms, but your anxiety made worse by the falling of estrogen......and that morning anxiety is pure hell isn't it?
No one can prepare you for what this time if life will put you through.....and as women, why are we not told!?? So much support online though for which I'm grateful. Anyway my friend...hang in there. 🫂
@@raymarriss2440 Hi Ray. I am 49. I was around your age when my periods started to noticeably change. It's one of the first symptoms that you're entering perimenopause. You may find your periods from now on will become more all over the place, early, late, on time, missed entirely some months and the further along you go, you may find they are lighter or much heavier....all normal. I found it helpful to keep a period diary. I started one age 43. Kept a diary for years of every single period, what date it was due, when it actually arrived (so then made a note how late or sometimes early) how it was (heavy, light, painful) looking back at it now....I'm glad I did it. It's good for you to know your body and what it's doing. You will slowly come to learn that things are changing. It's very gradual....
Eventually like I am now, you will go months and months without one....I've been a year with no period so I'm very close to leaving perimenopause and going into menopause.....
They say a year without a period and that indicates it.....but a period can randomly show up just when you think you're done! I'm in full on perimenopause now. Have been experiencing the classic and not so classic symptoms for the last year.....
Unfortunately blood tests often come back normal as there is no definitive test for perimenopause. Doctors tend to go on symptoms.
You may well be in perimenopause but bloods will be normal. Its only in actual menopause your bloods will show levels to indicate menopause.
In perimenopause your hormones are so completely all over the place, a blood test is not a true indicator as its a snap shot on that day.....the next day it could be different......so don't worry about the bloods. Sounds to me you're just entering the starts with your irregular periods.....but obvs, I'm not a doctor so any concerns do see your gp. Best wishes x
@@dorothygale5032 Do you have paresthesia too (like an insect crawling on you or pins and needles)? I'm 42 and I've had a lot of tingling-like symptoms for almost two years, I don't know if they're hormone related but they're really worrying me.
Thank you for all your work with health anxiety. Really working on sitting with my symptoms today. Even giving therapy a go here in the states although I find myself repeating the same things over and over with her and not getting much help with how to deal with anxiety or any actionable advice. Any advice on how to know if your therapist is a good fit?
You are awesome and so good at what you do!
Your videos help so much ❤
I love your videos they help me so much, thank you so much🫶🏼
One major thing we all need to understand is health anxiety becomes PTSD and is OCD. It’s the need for control connected to fears. The body hears the mind especially
For ppl like us. The body follows. For me my skin gets affected by health anxiety where ever I’m worried my skin hurts. My body pulls the blood from the area and the skin dries up and hurts 24/7 which is what makes the looping thoughts go on
I've had the worst time of my life earlier. A month ago I started having headaches, forehead pain, high fever and cough. Headaches and fever only lasted 2 days but other symptoms stayed for a while. so I decided to visit a family doctor. She told me there was possibly a sinus problem since I have a deviated septum. But my anxiety was so so high that my pulse went sky high (145) so she freaked out and told me I could die any minute if my pulse was this high all the time. I told her it was only because of my anxiety but her words scarred me deeply. ( even though I've been to a heart doc before and i know my heart is perfectly healthy). So it turns out I have a severe,chronic sinusutis. They prescribed me 10 pills of antibiotics and some other stuff. But her words about my heart scared me so much that I couldn't think about anything else for 3 days straight. went to the doctors on Monday, dealt with huge stress,on Wednesday evening my blood pressure suddenly dropped (70/50) and I could barely stand, I wasn't feeling dizzy but more like super lightheaded and I went into panic mode so that didn't help. I took some medications and it went back to normal after 15-20 mins but I started having tension headaches and couldn't concentrate for 4-5 days. day by day they were getting better and better and now i am fine but i still have trouble concentrating because i am anxious about brain tumors. even tho i know it was caused by high level of anxiety,low blood pressure and severe sinus infection, I am still scared as hell...
I have health anxiety and I self sabotage not only with this part of my anxiety but with dating and over thinking and pushing people away. It sucks big time
Hey do you still fear the radiation you had from the ct scans? Just curious if you still do
Was there a specific medication you was given at the start I have been given medication today for my anxiety and panic and just wondering what worked best for you in those early days
Amen.
Thank you for your videos ❤ i wrote about my anxiety bully: My Poem To My Anxiety:
Today…How are you feeling?
How are you feeling she say?
My therapist, is she my saviour? Each week I do pray,
For a way, For a change, A cure for this pain,
See it may seem invisible and though I look calm on the outside,
I’m torn, I’m scared, I am infact, very, afraid.
Because on the inside I feel symptoms that keep me at bay. They stop me to work, to create, to live for the day.
How do I explain such a thing, how do I trust in the words that they say? Doc says you're okay, it's just anxiety, it'll soon pass, it'll just go away. But it can't, it's just not right it has to be more, but Jamie the tests do not lie, please come back here no more!
Each time that i visit, each test and each scan, should put my mind at ease and I beg doctors for a plan. Please, keep me away, I'm just being a burden to the NHS, on yet another wasteful day.
I want to believe this is normal, that I am not quite alone, that one day I will look back and laugh at these problems I'm shown. But my mind is ever powerful and rather overbearing, it says look what's the hurry? there is more time for this health anxiety worry. I should be grateful for what I have got and have the strength to carry on being confident and on top! But sometimes I have no control for these attacks as they are ever so random, they have no consideration for my life, my feelings they hit me in tandem. I know I am fine, and clever you see, but I doubt myself too and often find it unbearable just to be me, to do simple tasks is hard to complete, like walking inside a shop and/or trying to just eat. But keep the faith, it will be IT that will lose. I will battle with this demon and indeed panic I will pursue. But as for today, how am I feeling? Like I can battle no more when I am healing? No, you are wrong for I have much fight left deep in me, just wait there anxiety for I am not finished with thee!
Hello! Lymphs are a huge fear for many. I have a bean or smaller ball side of my neck that is movable, since February. It never got bigger at times actually feels a bit smaller. My Dr isn't worried and I even ask my daughter's ENT specialist on it, he felt it, and said that the chance of it being something sinister is very very slim.. At this point should I see another Dr or just not worry on it
I’ve had the same issue. It ended up being benign fatty tissue. My doctors have checked it twice and I’m still worried at times but since I have gotten it checked more than once I’m trying to trust that it’s nothing like they say it is. Keep an eye on it but I would not panic. I know exactly how you’re feeling.
Thank you!!! My Dr doesn't seem worried about it , but I have horrible health anxiety. Always feeling it, which I'm sure doesn't help it. Take care... thanks for sharing ❤
I'm struggling with the same fear right now. I'm a lot better these last days, thanks God. It all started when I was coughing, than I found some little beans in my chest. I didn't know what lymph was, but Dr. Google did that job to me. I had health anxiety before, in 2018, but as always "this time may be real", I thought.
The fact is, I'm getting better, fighting my urge to find doctorS. I mean, it's small, movable, as you. So, you gone to doctors, they work with it, they studied it, trust them and move on. Do not let health anxiety steal your life. You're healthy. We are. God bless you!
my health anxiety stops me going to get real help because im scared they will find something. so i google to try and find things to make me feel better about what it is im worried about...i try to not google now which has helped me...i was fine until i got diagnosed with t2d and i reversed it within 6 months and my dr was amazed phoning me laughing saying your blood work is not even pre diabetes and 2 years later im still non diabetic....but that has made me think i have other things mainly cancer my submandular glands both sides under my jaw got hard and i can move them and sometimes they are smaller and i cant really feel them and when i workout eat or have a hot shower they go normal i cant feel them and when i cold plunge i cant feel them its mainly when im sat still..i try to get my partner to feel them and she cant even feel them but i know they are slightly harder...im constantly touching and checking my neck and hers sometimes..i wish i was brave enough to just go get tested but like i said im scared of what they will find....so draining
So you're the avoidant type of HA. Me too. It seems like this is the less talked about and presumably less common form of HA over the type where you're constantly going to the doctor and/or the ER.
I need help. For the past two years I had health anxiety, specifically fear of the c word, however it went away the last year. Just recently today I heard one of my brother’s friend got diagnosed with cancer and they given him only a year to live and now my fear is resurfacing back up. 😭
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What do you do if your symptoms are present constantly unless you’re completely distracted? I’ve had so many tests done and the doctors say they can’t find anything but the symptoms are relentless. I feel like I have a mystery problem no one can diagnose
like what symtoms?
@@Jayventura23 I’m always aware of my heart feeling weird and left sided chest pain
I have similar feelings along with weird face tingling and other little aches and pains. I can say, I still struggle, but once you tell yourself in your mind that you’ve been feeling this for a long time, and nothing bad has happened, so this is the exact same feeling, so nothing bad is going to happen. I’m no expert, and am still actively dealing with this day to day, but really try hard to think about the last time you felt the pain and if anything bad happened. That has helped me get some relief. Also, it helps me to come and look at a video here anytime I start feeling off. This is for two reasons, 1 being that the videos are super helpful, and 2 being that you slowly start to realize you aren’t the only one dealing with this. It makes me feel better knowing I’m not alone. I hope this helps.
I really wish someone can give me somekind of clarifications, I am a health anxiety sufferer, please can someone tell me why is it that, each time am scared about an illness , say brain tumor or chest tidness my body immediately start hurting at thesame spot am worried about, if is a brain tumor, my head will start paining, if it's chest tideness then my chest starts paining , when I was all fine in the first place.
hi, i’ve been really struggling, can i ask u a question ?
I get a tingling feeling in my head and I panic that I might be having a stroke and thinking that makes the tingling worse and it sends me in a spiral 😢
What did health anxiety people do before Google was available?
I really don’t think this fear existed.
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Hey Cherelle , I really need your help PLEASE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT , i have a bean shaped lymphnode under my jaw (submandibular lymphnode) but it seems to be more than 1cm when i grab it , please HELPPP
Hello, Are you ok now? Often lymph nodes can swell for a time in the jaw if you had a minor infection or mouth ulcer. Even if you have brushed your teeth and caused a tiny injury to the gum. Lots of reasons. Please try not to worry.
I have had the flu and chest infection for a few days. Anyone else would lie in bed and get better. I worry about it which makes it a million times worse! Lifes too short for this
Anyone ever have chest aches and upper back. More i worry and google answers, worse it gets. Had a normal stress test, still have pain
I don’t google or any of it. My health anxiety at this point is PTSD bc of what my brain does to my body and my life. It never just goes away either for ppl with health anxiety. It truly self resolves with time sadly. It’s bc it dominates all your thoughts
I'd like to also point out that once the googling stops then I move on to self help videos just like this one
I really appreciate your content but I believe there's a point where you need to stop the self help videos it's not the same as googling symptoms but looking at them all the time keeps you thinking about anxiety
That's been my experience as well. Watching these videos becomes a safety behavior in its own right.
What if the symtom was pain? Is that different. Can we imagine pain? It a mine field.
Yes we can, it’s extremely weird.
If this question bothers you then disregard. But are you still allergic to water?