Making myself ill with anxiety over CV and don’t know got to help myself

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So I am feeling extremely anxious and quite frankly petrified over the whole CV issue and it is making me Ill, can anyone recommend anything that I can do to help with my Mental health?

I am quite an anxious person anyway, I get it from my mum, but this last week has been off the scale.

I have convinced myself that I am harbouring CV because of mild symptoms that are probably due to anxiety in the first place and am scared that I am going to die quickly and unexpectedly. I am so scared about passing anything on to my family that I moved into the spare room and barely leave, I can’t sleep and anything I do eat is going straight through me as I have been suffering with what I assume is a nervous tummy for nearly a week. I have woken up this morning with a cold sore due to feeling so run down and know that I have got to do something to shake me out of this sense of impending doom.

I think I am having panic attacks, but as I have never really had one before I don’t really know.

I have not left the house for over a week anyway, and the thought of doing so - even to walk the dog makes me fill sick and shaky.

I looked at the App Store earlier to see if there was anything on there I could download to help but there were so many options I wasn’t sure which was for the best.

You are not the only one. This is a horrible time.

There are lots of anxious people here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feeling_depressed/3805818-This-corona-virus-is-sending-me-over-the-edge?msgid=94830940

The simple habit app has lots of free meditations and there is even one for dealing with Coronavirus. You only have to pay anything if you want premium membership. There are also ‘on the go’ meditations, just 5 mins each & there is a Panic section to bring you down from a panic attack.

www.simplehabit.com

@donotask thank you so much for your reply, I will download that now and take a look.

I would stop reading social media and mumsnet, lots of threads about it means it's impossible to avoid thinking about it.

I'm feeling exactly the same. I started with a sore throat today but that is all. I've been taking my temp every 10 mins but I don't have one. I feel as though I've a lump in my throat and it's stopping me taking a normal breath. My heart is beating so fast because I keep thinking my symptoms are going to come on fast and that will be it. I'm an asthmatic so this makes things worse. I'm dreading going to sleep in case I wake up gasping for breath

Stop reading about about, stop watching the news & don’t come in here to look at the threads.

Agree, I’m taking a break from it all because it is making me so ill but thought I would add this

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Link to music as per pic

This is what I have done:
I switched my radio to classic FM. 2 mins news only on the hour, easy to avoid.
I don't open many CV threads especially any that say "my nurse friend says..."
I instantly hide all FB posts that show anyone in a hospital bed. I snooze the person who posted them for 30 days as I notice it's often the same few people doing their "public duty" trying to scare others into compliance. This isn't necessary if you already understand the severity of the situation.
I read the positive mental health CV thread on here. It has positive news stories.

I try to practice mindfulness daily in terms of noticing lovely things. For example watching the birds on the tree outside my window, or my cat lying in a Sunny spot. It's still a beautiful world and those of us lucky enough to be holed up have a once in a lifetime chance to stop, breathe, and take stock. It will all be over soon.

I also remember my mantra - everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's just not yet the end.