Anxiety. I'm taking this win.

[Islande_King]

For the past five days, I've had this fear that I have a brain tumor, due to bad headaches after I had a cold and neck pains. Today, depsite being much better, the headaches seemed to have moved to the front of my head and I feel a little weak and nauseous. I don't if I do or do not have a brain tumor. What I do know is for the past five years anxiety has tricked me into believeing all types of things are wrong with my body, and it has always been wrong. So I'm choosing a different route. Tonight Dear Anxiety, I refuse to let you win.

[hurtingheart1]

I’m sorry about your headaches!! I can relate I’ve been having some of those myself lately -I think from weather change and not sleeping well ,for me &mixed in with hormones!🤣I like your response here though about goin a diff route with your pattern of thinking!! 👏🏼👏🏼☺️I hope you feel better ginger tea has helped and Ice packs on my head while I try to rest! I hope to find more things to help cause today it’s my stomach issues😂😆I just have soo many food allergies and other allergies soo frustrating !!! I hope best to you thanks for sharing!!💞🌻

[Islande_King in reply to hurtingheart1]

Good to know I'm not alone.

Thank you 💕✨

[Optimistic_22]

Yes definitely choose to not let anxiety win. It can definitely tell us all sorts of things are wrong with us. Mine makes me react to situations or excessive worry about a situation then react and making a situation out of nothing. What I find helps is CBT it’s taking that irrational thought and given rational reasons to why not true. Also known as cognitive behavioral therapy.This will over time help you not second guess or false thought. Being positive not thinking everything will turn out awful. That will help keep anxiety lessened and focus on the task at hand. Life is hard but it’s how we try to approach it that can make it wonderful with a positive perspective. I exercise it helps me be content and lessens my anxiety. I hope this helps and know your definitely not alone. You have me and all of us in this wonderful heathy support forum. Best of luck you got this. Much love. 😘

[Islande_King in reply to Optimistic_22]

💗💗💗

[Agora1]

Islande King, you just confused the heck out of Anxiety lol

Good for you xx

[Islande_King in reply to Agora1]

Good to know they're shook up a little bit 😭

[PastelPink20]

You deserve the win.

You choosing what you believe and fighting the fear is an enormous task.

It can be a difficult battle or a treacherous journey when you’re supposed to be able to trust your gut... but can’t. It’s like you’re making a new better gut.

I’m proud for you. Really, this is good. It is good to build a history of believing you’ll be okay. Of knowing what your fears are and then being confronted with the reality of what a doctor tells you. Of taking care of the symptoms and taking care of yourself now. Of choosing what to think and do, despite what your panic is trying to drive you to.

I didn’t realize how much mental health can impact my physical state. Mental health impacts choices which indirectly impacts physical health and the stress directly impacts your physical health. I have been where you are in my own way. I’ve gone to the doctor waaay more times than I needed. I got scans done. I’ve lost sleep. Just a while of a bad time. I don’t know. I just got used to thinking I had something wrong.

I had this fear, whenever I felt I was sick at night, that I would die in my sleep. So, I wouldn’t want to go to bed. I’d stay up (as if that’d save me? Irrational fears really don’t make sense). To get myself to choose to sleep, I’d have to write a goodbye note to my family and accept that I might die but I can’t control it anyways and my family knows I love them so I might as well sleep. I guess, I had to reconcile myself with this great fear so many times, so many nights. I didn’t even realize I did this until it came up in therapy.

Anyways, what I mean to say is, you’re choosing to not believe the anxiety. You choosing what to think and do and believe. I commend you for that. I applaud you. It is being in that position of awareness that brings choice... and you are choosing what to enforce and encourage with a very powerful tool you wield every day - your thoughts.

I go to sleep believing I’m going to wake up and wanting to wake up now (whenever it’s not too cold at least, lol).

I do hope your headaches get better, with extra hydration, sleep, meds, nutritious food, and time recovering from your cold.

Thank you for sharing this. I wish you the best. You’re doing great.

💕💕💕

[Islande_King in reply to PastelPink20]

That dying in your sleep fear is the absolute worst!

Thanks for all the encouragement and good wishes ✨✨

[Msteacher]

Way to go! You sound a lot like me. I do the same type of things. You got this!

[Islande_King in reply to Msteacher]

We shall overcome! ✨

[Vanessa102]

Ive had so many scans of my head to due anxiety leading me to think i had brain cancer and many others things all they diagnosed me with was migraines !!! Anxiety sucks!!!!

[Islande_King in reply to Vanessa102]

Especially health anxiety. It's God awful.

[Vanessa707]

I feel you girl, I have had anxiety for years now and it definitely makes me believe I have so many things wrong me. I’m currently experiencing some anxiety right now! And it’s sucks haha. We just have to be strong and not let this stupid anxiety try to get in our heads

[Islande_King in reply to Vanessa707]

Most definitelyy.

[Daniellesparkles]

Yes👏🏻👏🏻