Health Anxiety, its cracking me up, advice so so welcome.

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I am 29 weeks pregnant. At my 8 week midwife appointment my midwife flagged that I may need help for anxiety.
I have been going to help sessions every 2 weeks since and it's helped me to be able to go out and about on my own and with my little boy. However I have also been told I have health anxiety which seems to have got worse and worse not better.
I have spent the past 3 months convinced I have lung cancer it's like torture in my mind.
My 20 month old is poorly at the minute and no matter how much my husband tells me its just a bug I can't accept that. I'm convinced he will die. I know how irrational I'm being and I can't stop it I can't get it out my head it's exhausting me.
I hate wasting nhs time and money.
The strategies that the lady has talked to me about (writing it down, letting my anxiety just take over and breathing througb) aren't working for me. Does anyone have any good advice I can't live like this forever.

The five things you can see, 4 you can hear stuff is good.
Distancing techniques- acknowledge that it’s anxiety- help.
Meditation.
Tapping helps me too.
You have to work at it. You really do. There don’t seem to be any magic techniques but you can feel better if you put the effort into practising.

I don't have any answers... all I can say is that I feel exactly like this too. It's awful and exhausting and I'm so sorry you are going through it as well. All I can say is that it's relatively normal around pregnancy / birth, that I had it when my first child was born but it got better. By the time dc1 was about 15 months old it was pretty much totally gone. My therapist seems very convinced that it will come to a natural end this time too... here's hoping.

I had this last year. I've still got it a bit, though I have been diagnosed with something potentially serious. What helped me was firstly putting more trust in medical professionals and finding the case against being ill, perhaps more helpfully recognising that there was never going to be any certainty about my health and instead of trying to convince myself everything was okay coming to terms with the possibility that I might be ill and that I'd be able to deal with it as it came, and also recognising that it was completely futile to plan for imaginary eventualities because you can only deal with what you have in the present and all the what ifs just send you into a never ending loop because there is no way to get a resolution. Also I took what action I could to make sure I was living as healthily as possible, e.g. diet and exercise, and being proactive about doctors etc. where I needed to. Also Google isn't always your friend!

Thank you. Some really helpful are reassuring advice there I really appreciate it.
It is so so hard and I'm in a real low point at the moment and worry so much about not being here for my children.
I'm hoping things get better and trying my best.