advice + reminder + personal experiences all together haha

[u/Ordinary_Gap8030]

if your mind is strong enough to make you feel THIS bad, make you feel all these symptoms that are not there, its strong enough to do the exact opposite. its strong enough to make all of those worries vanish, its strong enough to make you happy and healthy (which you probably are!)

im not diagnosed but i believe i am (and have been) suffering from health anxiety, it runs in our family and a few of my family members have said that i probably have it as well. im still struggling with it, hell im struggling with it RIGHT NOW as im writing this out. i could get barely enough sleep last night because of nausea, and i still have it right now. there is a voice on the back of my mind saying 'its not anxiety, there's something wrong with you' and maybe you have it too but do NOT listen to it! that voice has no power over you unless you let it!! this is the day YOU and ME put an end to this. your mind has control over your body to an extent but YOU have a control over your MIND. are you really going to spend the rest of your life, or the next few years of your life stressing over this? guys, life is short, its not worth it.

ive spent years of my life letting my health anxiety control me, especially these few months its been hard for me because im recovering from a small operation done on me (for my nausea, it was related to a polyp found in my stomach) and even though its been 48 days, i still have anxiety about it coming back or i always have this thought in the back of my mind saying "what if i never heal, what i suffer from this nausea forever" because i still feel nauseaus sometimes (even now) but come on, its been almost 50 DAYS. im healed now!! there are no reasons for me to be nauseaus, its just my health anxiety acting up. i am putting a STOP to this. im not gonna let something psychological make me suffer physically, im not gonna let it rule my life, and YOU shouldn't either. i even feel better now that i wrote all these! this is the day you and me both put an end to this, this is the day we'll be free!

(this is my first post on this sub and i dont use reddit often, so i dont know if this is the right flair for this post and i also dont know what a megathread is 😭 im sorry if i made a mistake. im also not native, so please ignore my grammatical mistakes if i have any)

[u/Secure_Tomatillo_443]

I've been feeling dizzy for sometime now and my HA tells me I should just stay at home, indoors. But fuck that! I want to go for a walk

[u/Ordinary_Gap8030 → u/Secure_Tomatillo_443]

FUCK that! go for that walk! dont let your HA stop you from living this life!

[u/Stitch_Cat1212]

Thanks for this! I’m trying to tell this health anxiety f you! I’m stronger than you. This isn’t really anything. Then it creeps back up with the same symptoms. Why won’t my brain pay attention to me.

[u/Ordinary_Gap8030 → u/Stitch_Cat1212]

yess you are and you will get through this!! WE will get through this ❤️ dont worry it happens to me too, just dont let it get to you and remind yourself that it has no power unless you give it <3

[u/anxietygrrrrl]

Thank you for this. This is exactly what I need to read on Sunday morning.

Just today, I was sitting here and I’m legitimately having neuropathy pain,

but in my mind, it already started blowing up into something worse and it’s my excuse to sit at home and monitor and body/symptom check myself all day.

So I came online and your post was the first one I saw

and it’s helping me not feed into it and isolate.

Sometimes I feel like these anxiety disorders want you isolate and be alone

Thank you again for this post and for sharing what you have.

I hope you are feeling better since your surgery and that your symptoms don’t come back :)

[u/Ordinary_Gap8030 → u/anxietygrrrrl]

you have no idea how happy i am to hear that this post made you feel better! that was my exact goal and i hope it only gets better for you from now on ❤️ thank you so much for the wishes :)

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