Hi, I’m new here and was referred by the suicide hotline in attempt to meet and support others like myself. I’ve had chronic health anxiety and depression since 14 years old and it has been absolutely debilitating! I don’t think health anxiety in particular is advocated for like other conditions but to those dealing with this condition, keep fighting! Share some symptoms and general things you all deal with while battling your own diseases.
Sincerely,
#ThePsychStudentWithPsychIssues
Welcome Diamond_sheis, to a caring supportive forum.
I think you will find the warmth of our community comforting. 
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I agree! we’ve got this. one day at a time ❤️
you are not alone and I know it’s very scary for you and I can say I absolutely know how you feel. I suffer from depression and anxiety also at an early age. I did every thing I could to just make it day by day.. I went into a career of law enforcement and I was so busy I didn’t have time to think about my depression and anxiety. After 20 years I had to take an early medical retirement because I was diagnosed with Lupus now I suffer from severe PTSD and insomnia. I have multiple medications I take but I never fee relief.. now my anxiety is so out of control I started having non-epileptic seizures. I stay on top of my doctors about what I can do to get some kind of relief because several of my immediate family members committed suicide from untreatable depression. Please don’t let yourself get to that point. Seek help even if you have to call the suicide hotline or 911. There are more and more medications coming out of the woodwork and hopefully I’ll find the right one for me. Always speak out and don’t ever think you are alone in this. You are worth it!
That is a lot, i could imagine how that would make a person feel scared and uncomfortable. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc., sucks! We’re all hurting and hopefully we get the resources we need in the meantime to at least maintain. i’m with you! message me if you need me or just want to talk. #mentalIllnessSUCKS
Hey Diamond_sheis.
This community is very friendly and understanding. People are nice in here, it gives comfort to know someone understands you, or someone can just listen to you.
Welcome to the community
best
~Red
thank you! glad to be here
Hello seems me and you are in the same boat besides I suffer from hypercondria also...feel free to message me I'm always looking to talk to people who understand
Thank you for the reply, I was diagnosed with the same thing . it’s the worst! message me if you need too . we’re in it together!
I actually just did
hi!
I have also been struggling recently with health anxiety. If you ever need anything or want to talk please feel free to message me
you’ve got this! will do
Have had health anxiety probably more years than all of you put together as I am in my 70's. Finally, after about 60 years, I was diag. with OCD Health Anxiety. Still working on it with Behavioral Therapy, OCD Group once a week. Have had & have lots of health issues, and not as scared of them as am of germs, viruses, and when I, actually got Covid about two Mos. ago, wasn't as scared as when I was Worried about it --go figure. Also, have other OCD intrusive thots. which I worked on with Exposure Therapy. Anyway, it's takes time, and practice with health anxiety, and it can be reduced, but for me never goes away. Hopefully, with new therapies, and hard work, it will lessen for you.
Need to add on that I didn't get proper help for OCD till in my 60's because there was NO help for so many years out there as there now is.
jesus christ! i know that has to be very difficult, i am on my 8th year and i’ve never had to fight a difficult battle like i do with my health anxiety. I second that it gets better but it’ll always be there; that’s the harsh reality because we typically get anxiety about the anxiety. I hope all is well and don’t hesitate to reach out to me if needed.
Thank you.
hello I got Covid for the first in August. I didn’t have a cough I just had a runny nose but then I started throwing up and realizing what was going on. I was in suck psychosis that I was calling my family talking really crazy. I even called my neurologist and when they heard the crazy message they called me on the phone and I had no idea who it was but my neurologist said she called 911 and for me to stay on the phone with her until they arrived. Then police and EMS show up and ask me if I knew what day and year it was and when I tried to look at my phone the officer took it away try yo tell me without looking at your phone. I was slurring so bad they thought I overdosed on medication or something and apparently my neurologist thought the same thing because I was slurring so bad and my neurologist told me later that she knew something was wrong because I’ve never been that way before. Anyway I went to the hospital and they did blood work and Covid test and after I was positive for Covid and negative for any medication in my system they discharged me in just placed in the lobby. I had know clue where I was o what was happening but my ex husband picked me up and took me home and he checked on me a few hours later and I was having a seizures and convulsing EMS came again and took me to the hospital. I was throwing up blood and couldn’t feel any of my limbs so I was admitted. I had reoccurring seizures and convulsing that the gave me a benzo and left me there for 12 hours alone foaming at the mouth and my nose was running so bad so I couldn’t breath. After 12 hours a team of nurses rushed in a did an EEG for seizure to see if they were epileptic. I still couldn’t feel my legs. So they did a spinal tap for meningitis and ultrasounds up and down my legs looking for blood clots. I still had slurred speak and four the next four days I just laid there not knowing what was happening but the doctors said we are trying to find out. So after I finally got a little feeling back in my legs but still had slurred speech the neurologist came in and did MRI on my brain and still baffled they basically just said it was all Covid related. So after 8 days I went home. It took about a month to get my legs to fully walk again. I went ti see my neurologist and I wax telling her about a woman calling me and said she was calling 911 and stay on the phone and my neurologist said that was me. I had no idea. To this day I’m remembering bits and pieces of how I was acting that day. But then a month later I started having seizures. So now I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on because I never had seizures before Covid. My neurologist ordered a 72 hour EEG to check again if they are epileptic or non-epileptic. My neurologist said that sometimes people that have mental health issues will react totally different when getting a virus like Covid. So I never know from day to day if I’m going ti have a seizure or not, I’m waiting to have the 72 hour EEG hoping that will give my neurologist more answers. I’m telling you all this because I was wondering if you had similar psychosis when you got Covid.?
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Feeling So bad for you re. All you went through. I didn't have seizures, nor psychosis when I had Covid (and, pray I never will get that). Everyone reacts different, and has different symptoms (mine being mostly upper restport. like very bad nose congestion, cough, phlem which scarred me silly, no appetite for a couple of days, and terrible fatigue. Was all alone as my Sig. Other was in ICU & he had Covid & many other health issues, and I couldn't go see him as hospital staff would not let me go anywhere near there. I had Severe Anxiety as was SO worried about Mike (my Sig. Other) & me. Was a MESS! Dr. said if I hadn't had all the shots that it would have been A lot worse for me. But, having Covid did play havoc with my Type 2 Diabetes, and it's two Mos., and my blood sugars are still running high. My Sig. Other passed away on Nov. 3rd of this year, and I am grieving & depressed. Whew, life is sure Difficult, at times.
Sig. Other did not pass away from Covid --he had heart & other severe health issues way before he got Covid.
oh I’m so very sorry to hear! That’s terrible. I never got any vaccination for Covid . I have Lupus flare ups and my rheumatologist suggest not to get the Covid shot due to side effects of the Covid vac. And I worked since the Covid began and was around several customers at work who were stocking up on food in 2019. I never got Covid until this past August of 2022. And I was actually home bound at the time but I believe my son had Covid because he had a cough but no fever and didn’t want to miss school. But that’s the only person I was around. My son said he didn’t want to get tested after he found out I was staying in the hospital. He said he felt fine. But when I was admitted there were so many cases of Covid that the didn’t have enough rooms to admit them all. It was very scary being alone and the patient care techs had to help several times because I was having anxiety attacks. I was grateful because I had non of my meds from home. So it took a few days for the doctors to start me on my meds. I’ve been told by my neurologist that she got Covid twice even after she was vaccinated and bolstered. I had another friend tell me he had four times. So I don’t think I’ll make it through another Covid virus. But I get very scared when my nose starts running because that’s all I had when it all started.
So sorry that you had to suffer with Covid & be in the hospital. Good that you are okay now & hope you stay well. Yes, I worry, too, when I get a runny nose, or even when I sneeze. It's SO Awful to feel so Fearful a lot of the time. Re. the vaccine --it may not be okay for some people to take the vaccine, and should trust your doctor (I guess)! I know a lot of people (incl. me) who got all the shots incl. the boosters, but still got Covid. The vaccines & boosters don't stop one from getting Covid; but, the vaccines & boosters are supposed to prevent a person from getting a Bad case of Covid & winding up in the hospital, or worse. Since I am over 65 & have underlining health problems, my doctor said I should get the vaccines. I, also, have an autoimmune disease, and my Neurologist said it was okay for me to get the vaccine. It's hard to know, exactly, what to do as don't think that too many vaccines can be good for one's immune system --but, I don't think anyone knows for sure & that's, also, a cause for anxiety --expecially people with Anxiety
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Hi Diamond and welcome. You will find many supportive and wonderful people here ! I am Bipolar with panic/anxiety and PTSD as well as depersonalization. If you ever want you can message me !
I can relate! I suffer from derealization but i’m familiar with depersonalization, it’s sooooooooo scary. I have hope that we’ll get what we need to at least get a peace of mind! Message me if you need anything!
Hello and welcome. I can totally relate to your anxiety. I was always an uptight person, but I could manage my feelings, until menopause when the everything hit the fan. This coincided with Covid, and my husband having triple bypass surgery, which just made things worse. The past three years have been a long journey for me. I developed health anxiety, always thinking that I had the symptoms of Covid. I, too, at times, felt that ending my life was the only way to relieve my anxiety. The thing I can offer you is that things never stay the same. I have received help from a therapist, a psychiatrist, and from use of medication and I'm finally feeling as if I am looking forward to the rest of my life (it helped finding out that I am going to be a grandma). Please, if you haven't already, seek the help of a good therapist. I resisted medication, but sometimes use of medication (in my case short term) really helps. I wish the best for you.
congratulations, i am glad that news brought you some joy especially with knowing the pain anxiety causes. It brings me joy to see others like myself finally reach peace , even if it is only a little. Don’t stop advocating for yourself!
Hello and welcome Diamond, I think health anxiety is pretty common and i've read it can also be related to OCD. I have had some health anxiety on and off and I do have some OCD and it's definitely no fun. I've found the youtube videos of Paige Pradko helpful. She is a therapist that healed her OCD and also her health anxiety and other anxiety issues and now helps others deal with it and heal. Another good resource I found is Matthew Codde at restoredminds.com/ he is also a therapist who had OCD and anxiety and healed himself and now helps others heal. I've also found practicing simple mindfulness meditation to be helpful. Glad to have you here.
Glad to be here! thank you sooooo much , that really means a lot. I hope all is well with your situation as well!
You're welcome and happy new year to you.
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