Yes or no..Do you worry about your health?

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Yes

No!

Yes, selectively.

Yes

yes

Not unless I have reason to. I try not to borrow trouble.

No.

Not really. Everything mostly functions well. I feel lucky and appreciate good health.

No.

Right now, yes

Try to stay healthy but no.

I'm pleased most don't worry.

Whats your secret?

No

No, never. Since we are all going to die, if you spend your life worrying, you’re wasting it.

Yes

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I'm pleased most don't worry.

Whats your secret?

Because why worry about something that hasn't happened yet. Because life is short, I'm going to die anyway so I may as well enjoy myself. I could crash my car and die on the school run this afternoon. Because I have bloody excellent private healthcare which actually saved my life once before (something I was "too young" for according to the nhs when I was 20, they thought I was mad and wanted that investigated instead, had private healthcare though work and was operated on within the week, I wouldn't have seen my mid 20s I'd that hadn't been the case. First thing I did was take out my own policy and over 20 years it's been excellent, even during covid when one of my children needed it - I'm not well off by any means but I go without other things to pay it).

No. I'm 61 if that helps

No. There's no secret really but factors include

• generally in excellent health- partly luck/genes, partly lifestyle/exercise. I don't get ill often.
• when I've ever had genuine health issues it's come out of the blue so I didn't have time to worry in advance (had to have major eye surgery once, smashed my ankle up trail running)
• no major health issues in the family
• my general life approach is to ignore minor stuff and quite often it goes away by itself (laziness??)

But that's me- it might be rational for you to worry about your health if you have chronic conditions or genetic risk factors.

Yes.

I have annual MOT and do functional fitness or cardio every day for at least 30 minutes , eat a varied and healthy diet, don’t drink excessively, and drive a Volvo I also monitor my fitness levels regularly.

We only get one body and I want it to function well into old age. We can’t guarantee what the future holds, but that is no reason to neglect our minds and bodies.

We are told to live ourselves and surely one of the foundations of living ourselves is wanting to e healthy?

Or do you mean ‘are you a hypochondriac who assessed every ache and pain for cancer symptoms’? In which case the answer is no.

Only now that it has developed a problem and no-one knows why :(

No.

I care about my health. I try to live a balance between looking after it and enjoying it. My dad died from preventable illness in his early 50s. Some things you can prevent. Some things you can't. I'm not immortal, I just want to live as well as I can for as long as I can live enjoyably.

Yes. I have had raging health anxiety in the past but it’s sort of under control between meds and therapy. Still, it doesn’t take much for my brain to go, ‘so what horrible illness do YOU think you could possibly have? And what are you going to do about that?’

No. I'm currently at the end-stage of cancer treatment, and clock-watching, so the worst has already happened and I'm still "me". Things couldn't go more wrong, so why worry?

No.

I don't worry about anything. I consider things and if possible take action to make them better (like eating healthily) but I don't spend time worrying about them.
If I'm going to die ten years from now, I could spend the intervening ten years worrying about dying, or I could spend it enjoying living... hmm tricky...

Only if I have a specific reason to and even then it’s only until I’ve figured out what I need to do to fix it. I thankfully haven’t been in a position of having a life threatening condition but my general attitude is not worry about things I can’t control.