Cv anxiety and a cold and night sweats

[Rockinghorse2019]

Hi I suffer really badly with health anxiety and this is really making me struggle. I have cried everyday for the past few days thought I was going to die last night as I was hot.
I’ve got a bad cold at the minute so feel really grotty so taking my temperature every few minutes .
I’m even having night sweats could these be stress related? I also had a baby six months ago and struggling to cope with him and my anxiety feel such a bad mum consumed in my own health anxiety not sure how I’m going to be with this going on for months

Does taking your temp make you feel better other than the momentary relief you get?

Maybe talk to your GP - you may have post natal depression?

Taking temp gives me a little relief...
I just keep thinking of all the people dying and then panic I have blood cancer from the blood test results.
No it’s not pnd as I have always suffered with health anxiety. This current situation is making it worse.
Any advice how to get through it?

Sometimes not going on social media (including here), not watching the news etc helps. Some medications also help with anxiety (for example Sertraline) but can have initial unpleasant side effects and also take a while to work properly. There are apps which play calming music or help you to be mindful/meditate. An attitude of 'this too shall pass'? A lot of people with health anxiety also report that exercise really helps - it releases 'feel good' hormones.

You need to break the compulsion to check things like your temperature or symptoms your feeling. It doesn’t help and just feeds the anxiety. Don’t look at things that make the temptation to check worse, if you see a Coronavirus article just skip passed it onto something else.

If you’re thinking about the small minority of people dying try and instead think of the thousands more who recover and also don’t be scared by the outlier cases because they are outliers and not the norm hence them getting press coverage in the first place.