Overlife

[Dorsey]

When your whole life is consumed by anxiety and worrying about health issues makes you not want to go on. So many beautiful things in my life but when you just don't feel like getting on with them because you just don't know why the hell you have to feel this way. Sometimes wish i would never wake ip to face another day suffering. Anyone else feel like this.

[writingforjoy]

I completely relate. I have been absolutely in your shoes and for myself I let it stop me from living for quite some time. No more though. I say we were created for so much more than these circumstances. We were created to be victorious!

Anxiety and depression and our health concerns do not have to define us or our days. I know it is easier said than done now that I am on the other side, but to get there, I had to start living again despite the pain, all the symptoms and the anxiety. I pray that the excitement of living starts to bubble forth in your heart and overshadow all the anxiety. That peace rise with you in the morning and hope is in the place of despair.

You, my friend, are an overcomer~

[Dorsey in reply to writingforjoy]

Thanks.😎

[Hidden]

Hello Dorsey

I relate and having always had Health Anxiety I must say the older I have got feels worse at times trying to keep it in control , simply because when I was younger I had age on my side and could try and talk myself round telling myself that but as you get over 50 and so on everything you come across always says if you are over 50 you should see your Doctor and I think O heck will you be quite !

I know what you mean though , bit of a joke in this house as instead of hubby saying Good Morning he now says what is it today you can guarantee there will be something on my mind relating to my health and I will have a reply

Yet I know that feeling to when you think this is so hard getting through another day and wish I was not here , and when I get those thoughts I think this is crazy I am wishing I was not here yet my fear is that I have something wrong with me and I might not be here ? so not sure how that thinking works ?

I know this is not an answer to help as such but know you are not alone and we have to keep going and face the day the best we can , bank any good days and get them back out on the not so good one's and remember if we really has everything this anxiety tells us we would be a walking medical miracle

Take Care x

[Dorsey in reply to Hidden]

Thank you.

[veganese]

I am in the same 'frame'. I despair of feeling this way - but could not release myself from it because it's the very thing I fear! Each morning, waking to the 'fear'. I have moments of peace and respite from the feelings when I see a beautiful sky, watching something on tv, that i am fully engrossed in or a captivating book. Glimpses of the way I used to feel. It still lies beneath the surface, just waiting. Immerse yourself in things that lift your spirit, some of those are every day things. I have recently become involved again in music. I go along to a group where we sing and play instruments - even if it's just a bell! It's difficult, at times, I get exhausted just being amongst people, anticipating the hours before I set out, but I can escape, for a period of time, the constant dialogue, in my head. I'm 66, had my first bout of anxiety, when I was 18. I recovered, after a couple of years, enough that I had no fears, felt normal. I remember looking back to how bad I felt, but I was not aware of the recovery taking place - only that I felt normal, again. I put it down to being young, going out with friends - doing all the usual things. I had many years, anxiety free. I am in this situation again, because I've had more than a fair share of stress, in recent years, which I haven't managed properly. It is possible to recover. Be kind to yourself.

[baileyf14]

I am sorry you are going through this! Anxiety is such a difficult thing to deal with. Is there anyone like a close friend or family memeber you could talk to about what you are going through? It always helps me to have my closest friend there so I can talk to them and they can try to help me. I hope everything gets better.