annoyed with myself

[Bluecatbooklover]

I keep getting paranoid that I’m going to get sick and then I start hyperfocusing on everything little thing that feels off in my body and it’s actually making me feel sick. I feel stuck in a horrible cycle right now

[CharlieBear29]

Hi! I’ve been doing the same - the slightest ache or pain…health anxiety is horrid. I actually have a few physical issues (high BP & GERD), so automatically fear the worse.

[Bluecatbooklover in reply to CharlieBear29]

I have GERD too. And chronic migraines. Plus just all this anxiety that no matter how hard I try I can’t logic my way out of. I didn’t even know I had health anxiety until I started talking to people here. I thought it was normal and people just didn’t really talk about it.

[Wolpi]

Same here. I have GERD and HB and the side effects of the tablets make me feel that there is something seriously wrong. since October I have a gall stone stuck in my bile duct which makes me feel hangoverish. some days are ok other days I feel worse. I am sure that the HB is connected to it. I try and focus on positive things around me. like birds on the feeder. lunch time walks and try to focus on the beauty of creation.

[Bluecatbooklover in reply to Wolpi]

I’m really into reading so I’ve been trying to get back into that lately. I’d been neglecting it for a while but losing myself in a book is how I would drive out anxiety and depression when I was a kid and it still helps me. When I get really into a book I forget everything around me and so I’m not anxious about anything. It’s really nice. I’ve been trying to get out of the house more too but I also have social anxiety and I’ve started to get anxiety when I drive now too. It’s just not been a very enjoyable time lately and I’m trying to get back on a routine and do things I like because I want to not because I know that it’s something I like and I should do it.

[Wolpi]

love reading. but also enjoy listening audible and emerse myself in books.

[Bluecatbooklover in reply to Wolpi]

Same here. I have over 200 books. And a kindle and an audible subscription. I can’t be caught without a book