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Majorly struggling

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Aley009 · 17/05/2015 00:31

with my health anxiety , the last few weeks it's been awful. I've been to th doctors lots of times and sat for three hours to see an out of hours to be told what I had been told. I had a swollen tonsil and seemed to finally get some reassurance from my doctor. But that obsession was automatically replaced with the obsession with the lymph nodes / glands. My neck is sore from checking them so much it's like I have an ocd where I can't stop myself touching my neck to check and feel like if I skint check I might miss something.. I hate this so much it's Upset me but then I'll start thinking not to blame the anxiety and that I am probably actually Ill. It's a horrible circle. Sad

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Aley009 · 17/05/2015 15:20

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tobee · 18/05/2015 01:45

Hi. I have health anxiety too as do many others. Can they not offer any more constructive help at GP ? I'm currently on beta blockers (low dose, slow release) for tachycardia. It's helped quite a lot. CBT was also good but you have to work at it. I hate the vicious circle of health anxiety. Then you get angry at yourself for not being able to break out. I actually think many, many people suffer with some form of health anxiety and it's not acknowledged enough.

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tobee · 18/05/2015 11:19

Yes I agree. Re mindfulness there's a book by Mark Williams and Jon Kabat Zin called The Mindful Way Through Depression. Although it states it's about depression it works for health anxiety too. I found the cd that comes with it extremely helpful.

tobee · 18/05/2015 11:22

I'm not getting treatment at the moment apart from the beta blockers which I need to get me through some general anaesthetics to slow my heart rate which is high at points of fear, especially medical stuff.

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