Health Issues/Anxiety
I’ve been dealing with health issues both of known and unknown origin. My anxiety pretty much stems from the unknown and waiting between appointments to see healthcare professionals who will inevitably tell me that they don’t see anything wrong although believe that I’m in pain and that I’m young and it shouldn’t be anything serious whatever it is. I know that anxiety is not great for the healing/process when issues do arise, but it’s not like I can turn it off with the flip of a switch and every new pain, tingle, random sensation that may be normal or a sign sends me spiraling into a mess of what if’s. I don’t know what to do anymore to manage. Mindfulness doesn’t work cause it’s the present causing my anxiety. I want to distract myself from what I’m going through, but not thinking about it makes me feel guilty/worried that I’m wasting time and that if I don’t find out what’s going on soon, it could get worse.
I am sorry you are going through this anxiety. I can relate as I do the same about health issues. For me the anxiety usually goes away once I have an answer as to what the health situation is from. Do you have a therapist to talk to? That might help as you go through this. At least you would have the support of someone trained to help with anxiety. Deep breathing exercises can help when you are in the midst of a panic attack.
I hope you get some answers soon so that you begin to feel better :)
Thank you for your words. I imagine too that my anxiety will go away once the health issues do. I have a therapist, but she’s more like a counselor. She doesn’t do psychoanalysis or CBT, so I think I may look into founding a psychiatrist or psychologist to work with soon.
I just want to say that I can relate and you're not alone.
Since covid started I've developed illness anxiety. So basically I feel like I'm sick, or having a heart attack, or any ache or pain that's frequent I think something is wrong. I've seen many doctors and usually everything is fine. I know it's not totally relatable to your post but I understand the anxiety of the unknown.
What u said is so true sometimes mental health professionals are not able to diagnose us I'm not blaming what I mean is they look for physical signs certain symptoms and then they analyse your situation and go for treatment .But only u know what's happening inside ur body .I think only u can help yourself at this situation why simply because u are able to understand urself better I think u have to find out the reason or root cause as to what situations my body is reacting this way or to what experience by body is acting this way only then u can do anything about it .u can distract yourself but in long run it will not work u have find the source and then close that .just an advice think about it
