I have had increasingly intrusive health anxiety since having post natal depression after birth of dd 5 years ago. It focuses mainly on my dd and I worry constantly about her health and every little cough, behaviour or nuance is over analysed to the nth degree. I control it better at times, and it is definitely affected by my hormones. i have awful PMT and 2 weeks per month my anxiety goes through the roof. I have tried anti depressants to manage both the PMT and anxiety but hated the "switched off" feeling they gave me.
I also worry about my own health, and get fixated on particular illnesses - always cancer - and have real panics that I will die and leaver her motherless.
My husband is quite supportive but i know it exhausts him at times and to be honest he would think I was mental if I told him half of the things that go on in my head!
I have tried counselling but found the counsellors patronising - I am a drug counsellor so the role reversal felt too uncomfortable. I have made appointment at local counselling centre to have another assessment in hope that I can make some changes as I do not want to live like this, I do not want to pass on my neurosis to my dd and i don't want to keep feeling so worried all the time.
Not sure what I want from you lovely MN'ers, just venting spleen I guess xx
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Health Anxiety...driving me crazy
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MissMoopy · 06/01/2010 21:27
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