Welp!

[Everydayisrough]

Hey! Been quite some time since Ive posted anything. Almost a year actually... maybe its the winter blues.. my health anxiety has sky rocketed with everyone including myself getting sick. (That overwhelming im gonna die frame of mind).Idk about all of you but I am SO glad winter is almost over!

[Jeff1943]

Winter is no friend to anybody with anxiety or depression, nothing lifts the spirits like blue skies, bright sunshine and trees breaking into leaf.

At least health anxiety is easy to understand. Our sensitive nerves make us think every ache and pain is something really serious, we are very good at imagining the worst.

Sensitised nerves are very good at impersonating real physical illness. Then we start worrying and fearing some more thereby releasing more stress and fear hormones that maintain our nervous system in its sensitised state.

One thing is for sure, the fake illnesses of health anxiety are infinitely preferable to the real illnesses they imitate. Tension of the chest muscles that lead us to obsess we have heart disease is much less serious and so much easier to deal with than genuine blocked coronary arteries and heart failure.

After having gained reassurance about the symptoms of our health anxiety we just have to accept the symptoms for the moment and stop frightening ourselves half to death. So much easier than heart surgery!

[Everydayisrough in reply to Jeff1943]

You're absolutely right. The anxiety symptoms are much better than having actual health problems... In winter, the media plays a huge roll on my health anxiety. Every "get your flu shot now" "flu is so deadly ". Everyone coughing and sniffling.. and there i am "Great now the flu or pnemonia is gonna kill me"... one more week until temps stay above 50 and i sm SO SO siked! Lol happy almost spring 🙂