Am I doing this right??!!

[Lynl]

I've posted a few posts and have never received a reply , unless I reply to someone else . Am I posting right?

[Agora1]

Yes you are dear. As a matter of fact I responded to your post regarding seeing multiple doctors for your health anxiety. I stated that I use to do that at one time. I was so proud to have a team of doctors. A team of medical professionals just for little ole me. Now I've gotten more conservative. It just takes one doctor to oversee your health and let them recommend a specialist if need be. I hope you get this reply. xx

[Lynl in reply to Agora1]

Ok I'm sorry I just found it. Thank you . I'm still new at this site. Thank you for responding

[Maisie1]

I've seen your post. Hi nice to meet you.

[Lynl in reply to Maisie1]

Thank you , and nice to meet you too😊

[Maisie1]

I have severe health anxiety. I understand that is your problem

[Beevee]

Hi Lynl

sorry to read that you are suffering from health anxiety. I've been there too and thought I'd never find peace of mind until I learnt how to let go. You are keeping hold of anxiety and need to learn to loosen your grip. You have anxious thoughts about your health because you have anxiety. You keep feeding your anxiety by constantly searching for the reason why you have it. You need look no further than your own actions as the major contributing factor which means you need to stop the search and genuinely accept that it is anxiety. I have posted one or two replies to other sufferers with the same message about how to recover which you may find helpful. A good way to explain it is to treat anxiety like any other non life threatening illness (don't wish to startle you any further 😘) , like a cold for example. When you have a bad cold, you may sweat, your body may shake, your head aches, adrenalin is pumping fighting the virus and generally feel like shit ! (sounds a bit like anxiety doesn't it?). What do you do when you have a cold? You accept that it is a cold and even though you may feel crap, you put it to the back of your mind and carry on with your day, going to work, shopping etc etc. You know that your body will heal itself and the cold will go away without you doing too much. If you deal with anxiety in exactly the same way, it will go too. Just accept that it is anxiety and move on with your life. The only difference is that you don't fear getting a cold but I'm guessing you fear the symptoms of anxiety, hence the constant searching and medical team for back up. Anxiety just happens to focus on your health but could easily switch to something else because it is easy to develop other fears while you have anxiety and living in fear! Does this make sense? Just have a look at some of the posts on this website and you will see how anxiety can manifest itself. All the fears feel real to each sufferer but having recovered, I know they are all false. Anxiety has just magnified their intensity and tricked us into believing something was wrong. Without anxiety being present, any thoughts about your health wouldn't matter very much and pass without a second thought. A couple of years ago, the thought of dying filled me with utter fear but were turbo driven by the anxiety. I kept checking myself for any signs of serious illness, self diagnosing using the Internet (don't do it). I had myself dead and buried! Nowadays the subject doesn't bother me in the slightest because I took away the fear. I don't even think about it.

To lose the fear, you need to be comfortable about feeling comfortable which requires a shift in your attitude from thinking "What if ?" all the time to "So What!" and genuinely mean it. You may have to fake it at first before you make it but with practice, you will get there and allow your mind and body to recover. Don't go searching for recovery, let recovery find you.

Hope this helps.

Beevee