health anxiety and all in a panic.. Help please

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I suffer from health anxiety and have found something I am worried about. It's probably nothing and I'm being irrational ( part of me knows this) but a bigger part of me is now in a panic. I can't think about anything else... I know it sounds crazy but for the past hour ive been obsessing over it. Just had a major row and dh has said I am not to go to the doctor or talk about it or he'll wash his hands of me. I don't know what to do now... Please help me to give myself a slap and snap out of it. I know my thoughts are irrational but i don't know how to snap out of it :(

A slap would be unkind, and you're struggling, you need compassion... but reassurance doesn't help with your struggles and it sounds like your dh is getting frustrated, that's not uncommon, your GP should refer you to a CBT therapist or a Clinical Psychologist. In the meantime work in a compassionate way with the part of you that knows it's irrational, and when your fears rear up just remind yourself, anxiety is code that something is wrong that needs our attention, but it's your health anxiety, and not the health issue, that's the problem.