I am always so worried

[Growingplants]

Hello,
I just am posting to see if anyone is similar or if I am actually crazy. I have a husband and two children (who are one and two).
Every single day I worry so much about different illnesses and it is causing me to have so many sleepless nights.
For myself... I constantly get worried that I am going to go blind (I have quite a high prescription glasses), have breast cancer, cervical cancer, a hernia and something wrong with my brain as I get bad headaches. For my two children... in the past few days I have googled numerous genetic disorders, countless autism searches, every single thing my 2 year old does that is slightly out of the ordinary I Google and it comes up with a different condition. For example, my daughter was randomly on her tip toes today and now I am in a spiral about thinking if it is autism or if it is a muscular condition or if it is just a phase. One of my daughters was shaking her head at dinner, and it came up with cerebral palsy.
For my husband I always get worried incase he will get some disease and not be around.
Is it normal to have so many worries like this? If so, how do you deal with it without it taking over your life?
Thank you for any help.

Hi
I just want to say I feel for you and gave exactly the same problems . My worry is on health things and it takes over my life too . I have suffered for many years
Have you seen you gp at all ?

You need to see your GP, to give you some peace in your life and to stop this rubbing off onto your children.

There must be something underlying these fears. Can I ask when it started? Was there a trigger? Have you experienced any past trauma that you haven’t processed? Hugs x

Sounds like health anxiety , see a doctor and get some medication or help.

You have my sympathies, health anxiety is just hideous. I'm suffering myself, currently convinced I have breast cancer.

I spoke to my GP a couple of weeks ago and am 10 days into Sertraline which is kind of taking the edge of the anxiety but still a long way to go. I'm hopefully also starting CBT too soon. Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep busy and resist the urge to check my body every 5 minutes which is bloody hard and I've fallen off the wagon a few times already but it's the only way.

Go see your GP as a first step, I'm glad that I did.

Good luck x