Health Anxiety bad today :(

[melissa35]

I don't want to go to work. It really is debilitating. Could cry.

Thank you Melissa - I'm surprised to find the screening this upsetting as I'm actually OK with cervical testing. Has to be done though I suppose.

I take the attitude to HA that, given the fact that life is uncertain, that there are lots of unpleasant diseases around and that the media behaves with a total lack of responsibility around health issues (constant scare stories), HA is perfectly normal and rational. I think WE'RE the normal ones and people who don't have it are strange!! And I actually think not feeling guilty about it or beating myself up with "Why are you so stupid feeling like this?" helps. It gives me a bit more energy to go to work, to exercise, to stay away from Google, to do the things that help with HA but can be really hard to discipline yourself to do.