Real health issue

[bryan45735]

Hi everyone I've had deppression and health anxiety all my life I have mild copd, fatty liver, hiatus hernia, and all I get from family ect is its anxiety its all in your head it was bad enough not having anything physically wrong with me but now as time goes on and you get older your anxiety gets worse so if you are young or you are my age or there abouts I'm 46 years old or if your even older than me and you have got health anxiety and there is nothing wrong with you physically wait till you find out there is something wrong with then you think your world is falling apart

[TyrSwimmer_Sac]

I can certainly say I know how that feels. My anxiety built up over years and on top of my depression became full on panic l to go on with no end. Family should support you but if they don't then just focus on getting help/support else where.

A mental illness if far harder for people to empathize until it happens to them. As for employers, man they need documentation and proof and even then the bureaucracy still works against you. Hence the need to see the doctors, therapists and psychiatrist to follow up with you. After all the work you do to manage the logistics you stress out even more which builds on the anxiety.

The idea is to reach out for support, help, and tools to manage and balance out life. Things will settle down. Those are the moments you can look forward too to keep going. Cheers brother.

[AnxiousCanadianChic]

I had VERY bad health anxiety after my brother died from cancer when I was 18. I seen what losing a child did to my mom and she always said “ I better die before you 3” (the 3 of us left) and that caused my health anxiety. I couldn’t have her lose me and go through that and I was convinced I had every disease out there, was convinced I had or would get cancer too as my brother who died and I took after my dad in looks and my dad died of cancer 3 years prior to my brother. I was sure I was going to die. My mom died in October 2013 of cancer and BOOM my health anxiety was gone.

I think it was a combination of not caring if I died as my mom was my everything and because I didn’t feel the pressure to stay alive anymore.

I have been feeling it again lately with Covid and like you I have non alcoholic fatty liver which could possibly be fibrosis (I go for a more in depth ultrasound on September 30) and I have very bad asthma which the Dr thinks may be COPD but I refuse to go off my inhaler for 2 weeks to know for sure. I’ve never smoked but grew up in a house of smokers.

I’m not super stressed about the asthma/possible COPD as I avoid triggers and only really worry because of the bad outcome Covid can have with these issues.

I find going for full on physicals and blood work yearly helps but this year the blood work showed the elevated liver enzymes. The good thing is fatty liver and even fibrosis can be reversed. I’ve already started cutting out any fat and sugar from my diet and hopefully it helps.

I just turned 43 and I do think it will get worse the older I get 😔.

[Daveacr1959]

45-60 minutes of daily cardio exercise to produce endorphins that battle your anxiety and depression. Then take a 5 minute pure cold shower to reset the vagus nerve, Google it.