Health anxiety

[Mayibehealthy]

I feel like I might have illness anxiety. I don’t know how to deal with it because I feel like it’s a big circular dance everyday of my life. I don’t go to a doctor because I am afraid so I feel at high alert and feel desperate. It makes me so sad and lonely . What can I do?

[Mayibehealthy]

I think my family is tired of hearing me complain about my health and can’t understand why I dint just go to see a doctor.

[Agora1]

Mayibe, and that's how we begin the cycle of fear.

We worry about being ill but are afraid to go to the doctor

or take medication and so we live on high alert each day.

Are you seeing a therapist at this time? Since Health Anxiety

is caused by the mind, that might be a starting point for you.

Another resource is a book that Dr. Claire Weekes wrote on

Hope & Help for Your Nerves"....it is also available in videos on

You Tube.

It can help you see yourself in her theory of what Anxiety is.

Once you accept it as not harmful and practice what she preaches,

the symptoms will lessen. Wishing you well xx