Anxiety , any sufferers on here ?

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Does anyone suffer with anxiety ? Iv always had some sort for anxiety all my life , but for a full year iv had health anxiety since a scare I had .

Basically it was really bad I was going in and out to drs and to a&e , now I just live with it . If someone looked at me they would think I'm happy but in reality I'm suffering .

I always think I have c

Right now I'm thinking about my smear , I'm 23 soon 24 and I'm worrying about something that's not happening yet !? I'm not scared about having the smear I'm scared of the results 🤦🏼‍♀️ .

I had the slightest bit of pinkish blood in my EWCM when I was ovulating. . And that's set me off now .. it's only happened once , I don't bleed outside my period or after sex so I no it's nothing sinister I don't think anyway .

Any advice please ? How do you cope ? Any advice is appropriated. I just feel like I'm the only one

Anxiety is an illness that sometimes is bad enough to need treatment. Have you had medication for it ever or now? What about CBT?

@Stickmansmum

I have had cbt but found it didn't really help . Iv got medication but scared to take them because of the side effects I had . I think i just need to pluck up the courage and give them a go .

I mean this kindly OP but do you have anxiety or is it you get extremely worried about things? As I think they are two different things.

It's normal to worry about some things even irrationally (I think results of smear fall in this category as I do too). I have a regular medical procedure, not a big deal and many people have it more than me. It's common for me to get myself so worked up about it before hand that I have in the past fainted either before, during or after. I wouldn't class this as "anxiety " though. Just me not being great at managing the stress

It's normal to feel worried about things in life, we all do it from time to time.

I think in some cases that some people (not saying you necessarily OP) allow these natural feelings and times of stress to either excuse themselves from situations/tasks or allow it to mean they miss out on new or exciting events or achievements.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

I think anxiety as I tend to jump from different diseases to another . Once I'm over one thing I find wrong on my body it goes to another so a vicious cycle 😩 it's like a obsession to find something wrong !! To me it doesn't feel right not to be worrying about something if you get me . It's feels weird to me to not have anything to worry about 🤦🏼‍♀️ I try my best to stop but it doesn't unfortunately my mind will just find something x

When and why did the obsession start? You're correct, it's not 'normal' but there's always a reason behind it, once you can find that you can work on calming your subconscious reactions. Have a look at on health anxiety.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz Thankyou ! It started November when I had a health scare with my breast , thankfully all ok but since then iv had nothing but worrying and many trips to a&e for blood tests etc . Think the drs are fed up of me lol x

Well good on you for going ahead with your smear despite how it worries you ... too many young women don't and it can be a life saver.

It's highly likely your results will be fine.

Look after yourself