Health anxiety

[Jrl97]

Recently my health anxiety has gotten really bad to the point where any mark or ache has me thinking that I'm dying... I'm a healthy 19 year old girl... I feel like I have no control of my self and it scares me... I just want to go back to being my self and I just don't know how too.. I see a therapist she's no help at all... I got so worked up today Bc I had sharp chest ,arm, leg pain, and nausea I made my sister drive my to the ER to find out as usual I am okay... I've never had the symptoms of consistent sharp chest pains and nausea with my anxiety before and it's making me think that maybe this isn't panic and the doctors should have been more thorough in my exam today... advice needed 😓

[blackcat64013]

If you haven’t yet made it clear, either to yourself or your therapist, what you want to get out of the work, your therapy may be stalled. Suggest formulating a treatment plan together that lists your goals in therapy as well as strategies toward achieving those goals. You may also want to establish a “check-in/check-out” procedure with your therapist. This would entail you stating in the first five minutes or so of the session what you would like to get out of the time that day. Then, in the last five minutes, you would review that intention and assess whether or not it was accomplished. If so, how? If not, why not?