Ibs making me paranoid

[Cjc_woodworx]

Hi all how much does your mind make up physical symptoms? For 6 years I been worried about appendicitis and bowel cancer because ibs mimics them kind of symptoms and I know it's ibs but on the other I think the worst and I make the mistake of Dr Google I wanted to jump into traffic it's that bad

[Jeff1943]

Cjc_woodwork, you're absolutely right, the power of the mind to mimic real physical illness is infinite. Clearly if you had bowel cancer or appendicitis for six years you would know about it by now.

As I've repeated elsewhere, Doctor Claire Weekes said that the stomach is the most sympathetic organ in the body to anxiety, it's more likely to make itself felt there than anywhere else. Hence Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a common complaint among people with high anxiety.

So stop thinking the worst and forget about the traffic, you don't have to put up with all the tricks your mind and nervous system play on you, you know. No matter how long or how bad you have suffered you can recover. Who says so? Claire Weekes said so in a book she wrote over 50 years ago. In that book she set out a road plan for recovery that has withstood the test of time: her books have attracted 1,600* reader reviews on Amazon in the last few years alone and 90% of them rate her Very Good or Excellent.

Forgive me if you've come across her already but her method is based on accepting all the symptoms of anxiety for the moment calmly and with the minimum of fear that you can knowing that these symptoms are due to an over sensitised nervous system. If you can learn to stop stressing and fearing the symptoms then you stop flooding your nerves with the fear hormone that keeps your nerves over sensitised and causes all the symptoms of health anxiety in which I include IBS.

If you haven't already read it I would recommend you read her first short book titled 'Self help for your nerves' in the U.K. and 'Hope and help for your nerves' in the U.S. You will soon recognise yourself in its pages and it will bring understanding, reassurance and a method that will lead eventually to your recovery.

The book is available new or used on Amazon and it has helped endless thousands to reclaim their lives. So don't put up with it for another 6 years, I recommend you read this book and see what you think.

*total reader reviews for all her books on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk

[Cjc_woodworx in reply to Jeff1943]

Thankyou it is getting on my nerves now