The moment I realised I was a hypochondriac!

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for watching my video. I hope it gave you some comfort to know that you aren’t alone. Health anxiety can be so isolating but I want you to know that so truly understand.
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[@515051506969]

You don't need therapy, you just need a strong mind, you just gotta throw that sh** in the trunk and get down the road 💯

[@lg4360]

Thank you Cherelle for sharing your life story and struggles with health anxiety. Most of us do not want to talk about it because we feel embarrassed, weak, different. I have lived, basically my entire life with anxiety. Beginning when I was 10 years old to this day (I'm 59). It is all I have known. I missed a few years of school because I was too afraid to leave home. I couldn't travel far. At one point I couldn't even get on the highway for even one exit. Then when I became a parent I added health anxiety to my list of fears. It's ironic because I wanted to become a surgeon. I decided on medical research and just retired after 32 years doing so. Still, I struggle VERY much with health anxiety, not only about myself, but others as well. It is VERY VERY difficult. For those of you who feel weaker than others let me share this with you. My daughter was actually diagnosed with cancer when she was 15. I was scared to death. Yet the process of going through treatment and surgery was real, not perceived with the "what ifs". I actually had peace through it all. She survived and has annual scans to check. That makes me very anxious because now I am back with the "what ifs". The truth is, the anticipatory anxiety is ALWAYS worse than the reality. Always. Finally, your pain is very real...VERY REAL. After going through 9 months of treatment my daughter later developed health anxiety and feared she would die in her sleep. I understood her feelings. It's harder for those who do not suffer, yet when she told my wife that her anxiety was WORSE than having and treated for cancer, that really opened her eyes to the suffering we experience. One day I will die. We all do, yet I realize that when that day comes I will look back at all the time wasted worrying about a serious disease when my time hear on Earth is near it's end. So much energy wasted. Why didn't I just enjoy my life, do my regular exams and leave it at that. 99% of all of my health anxieties turned out to be nothing, yet I suffered tremendously from it. Do I want to look back at the end of my life and realize what a waste of energy I expended over nothing? I still struggle very much with my health anxiety. It's hard. It's VERY hard. I think these videos by Cherelle and others are a huge help to let us know that what we have is real and we are NOT alone. It is a mental disorder. Your brain functions by chemical reactions (neurotransmitters etc). Like throwing a ball and trying to get it into the circle, you brain has become hard wired to a greater or lesser extent to do this without really thinking. Our health anxiety is a learned response to an ancient behavior; survival. What we need to do is acknowledge this is a learned behavior that is trying to control our safety. It is not. It is an over exaggeration of typical concerns that we otherwise would blow off. The adrenaline rush (panic) is a normal response to an abnormal concern. That triggers your brain into looking frantically for a solution to it. What must be wrong. I must figure this out. We developed this for survival, yet those of us who suffer health anxiety extrapolate what others may notice but let it go. We HAVE to know. As a Christian I try to think of this: Live in the now When I am anxious it is because I'm living in the future When I am down it is because I am living in the past We crucify ourselves between two thieves; regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

[@Dominik40301]

This is exactly what i had when i was younger, at school when i was around 12 years and then at high-school sometimes, and when i went to sea vacation with my parents at age of 16- i was afraid when i was far from home. I remember once i walked with mom in city i got panic attack because i was not close to home, same later when i started go high-school which was about 7 miles from home. I was in such stress last day of sea vacation that i just wanted to go back home, shaking from stress. At least that type of anxiety went away and now i can travel normally, i can drive with car alone to another city and feel completely normal. Also, i remember one time when i was walking to school that was about less than 1 mile away from my home, i stopped half way and returned home, because i got panic for no reason, then i was thinking when i came home what will other class mates think about me when i start missing classes. Fortunately it happen only once, i remember i told my parent i was sick that day so i returned home

[@bettyausten9533]

I had heart worry and did ECG and ECHO this year, I have been fine after the test...but now it's beginning to come back again that maybe the test was wrong...I am so tired of living this way, it's ruining my life

[@Robin-uu6eg]

I started having awful HA when I was 20. I'll be 35 this month. I realized mine was health anxiety when I was 26 when I went to the ER for what I thought was a heart attack, but it was a panic attack. It took years of therapy to really get a grasp on what HA is and what it was doing to me. Now I know that when a big life event happens, that's when mine gets really bad. I thrive on routine and when my routine gets thrown off and big changes happen, I feel like I go crazy. Now that I know this, I can manage it a lot easier.

[@lxciid1766]

this is the exact same thing that happened to me

[@dgh5223]

I had severe anxiety for first time in my 55 years during middle of covid when people were dying and my hubby had covid. I learned how magnesium can calm nerves so I use that when I feel overwhelmed or heart races.

[@bailemslot]

Man i‘m going to move out for the First time in a week and a harmless throat inflammation triggered a massive health anxiety episode 2 weeks ago and I didn’t recognize myself. I think the same thing you’ve experienced happened to me because I’m a bit nervous about the move

[@senorgucci153]

I'd say my anxiety completely developed and became uncontrollable was when my father had a heart which led to his passing. About 3 months later was my first severe anxiety attack but in about 6 months it became a health anxiety. Unfortunately it hasn't stopped since. Just this past month I went in and out of the ER about 6 times thinking I was dying. And it's a horrible feeling because I feell like they have more important situations to take care of but I just can't control the emotion of my health anxiety. I really wish I could have control over it, it just feels like It will never end.

[@lauramckenna534]

Am I the only one who has anxiety in cycles? I will have a bout of anxiety for about 2-4 weeks then suddenly I say to myself why did I worry over somthing so stupid and then I'm back to normal and feel strong again....then the cycle starts all over again?????

[@irene2081]

When you realize and accept that you suffer from health anxiety things get better. You are able to catch the mind creating scenarios and when you get the test results and they are fine, then you clearly see what tricks the mind has played on you and that you don't have to believe everything your mind is telling you. I quite recently found out all about that while searching for answers for my anxiety and this whole thing helped me go back to my childhood and see what probably created this anxiety and it all made sense. By the way, I was glad to hear that everything is ok with your eyes..

[@stealthnewt]

I realized I was a hypochondriac in the last few years. Your videos have helped immensely lately to fight off a particular intense HA attack.

[@irenaivanova9973]

Cherelle i wanted to tell that when i listen to you its l ike hearing myself talking and i am crying with you ...Thank you so much !!! sending love to everyone stuggling !!

[@neilhess6407]

The biggest bitch about having health anxiety is that you never want to go to the doctor because you think it's all in your head.

[@denisebaldwin4841]

After so so so many symptoms and illnesses I think I know and accept I have health anxiety . Taken over my life for a while but I feel it’s a process . I can relate to the tunnel vision that ‘ it can’t be anxiety’ because of all the physical symptoms. I need to go through the process but symptoms can really be so difficult , especially when it’s a new symptom which I become fixated on . So exhausted but it’s getting easier to be positive . Love to all ❤️

[@jamesmartinez7301]

Hello I have been going through some health anxiety in one month! I had a dermatologist appointment for a check up. My Dr notices a mole on my back and wanted to do a biopsy. I never had that done before and I found they wanted to take it off due to it being abnormal. I freak out for one week with google and looking up videos that I shouldn’t have. Test came back clean but that same week a scan showed up on my chest what made believe I had basal cell carcinoma. So I went back next week to do another biopsy and came back clean. In three weeks I was not eating , sleeping and stressing. I get tension headaches and they came back hard on what’s been going on. And now recently I have been having indigestion (acid) problems. All this in one month. I had a CT scan on my stomach and look fine. I know it’s me and need to take control of my life. I’m happy to see everyone’s story and showing I’m not alone

[@Snack_Package]

I needed this video! Thank you I noticed I had health anxiety when I thought I had 9 different deadly diseases within a 5 month period.

[@cherellethinks]

You’re so welcome. ♥️

[@scottmiller4673]

Mine started with a visit to a dermatologist regarding some acne I was developing on random parts of my body. At that appointment, she pointed out that she could tell I used sunbeds from the freckles and moles I had - cue freak out. Such an innocent comment to make, but suddenly I found myself on Google checking what bad moles look like and fell down a rabbit hole of scary stories and misinformation. About two months later, I then became transfixed on my bowel habits and different things that were going on there and started worrying about what they meant. As you said, classic Health Anxiety to jump from one illness to another and think you're just unlucky. Having spoken to a therapist, I've discovered that my Generalised Anxiety Disorder just needed something to fixate on after everything else in my life started going back to normal. It's a curse and I still fight with myself every day to remind myself that I have health anxiety and that I'm catastrophising.

[@simona_sigmund1001]

I'm literally the same as you 😿 I just went in for tests to do with my bowels. Turns out my anxiety gave me some weird poops - the IRONY ughh Recently I had stress related to my job and living situation. But since those have resolved my attention has once again turned to my health 🤦🏼‍♀️ I started crying in a shop the other day because I thought I was having a heart attack or asthma attack (I have neither heart problems ((which I've also been tested for)) or asthma) and my boyfriend was just like - look you're having another panic attack, so you're gonna be fine! This all started when I was a kid. I do have a condition called neurofibromatosis which meant trips to the hospital. Then when my brother died my health anxiety sky rocketed 💔

[@Pattytrees7]

Thank you for this 🙏

[@amilom007]

I think it's because of google, whenever I google a symptom cancer popup in most results

[@tanyabrady6405]

it breaks my heart seeing others so affected by this anxiety, because I been at rock bottom and I turned to drugs to block the anxiety out, but I am much better than what I was but that's from learning about anxiety and your videos are really good x

[@elf9082]

Mine started because I developed GERD after having an eating disorder for two years, and it really affected my body but after that diagnosis I would search up symptoms , although it wasn’t severe and it was under control i would still feel as if it was there and it was killing me and the worst of it even after doctors examined that it was under control, I just kept going from there and I didn’t realize it was health anxiety till now and now I’m battling my head, and doing the same things you did. But I’m glad I found out about it and my days will continue to get better, i hope and believe in it

[@Pattytrees7]

Hi it happened when I was in my 30s but I learned to calm down. Recently it happened again with more stress and family and life. Enjoyed your video and as one mom to another I really appreciate this 😊 Thank you

[@Mebbe308]

Today was the day I realised I had HA. Just by listening to you made me realise. My daughter has called my a worry wart, but I don’t think she’s realised the nightmare that has taken over for so many years. I think Winston Churchill said “ almost most of things we worry about, never happen”.

[@Mebbe308]

Really appreciate the trouble you take because I’m 77 and my GP has been pretty useless

[@markalavoine841]

This has been so helpful. Ive been convinced i have either parkinsons or MS for the last year or so on and off. The more i read about it the more symptoms i get. Definitely manifesting them through my HA. I saw my Nan ravaged by Parkinsons and it has clearly scarred me for life. The thought of having anything like that scares me. It all started with a pretty innocent eye lid flickering but its got progressively worse the more ive worried myself about it. My fiance cant understand as i am quite a fit and healthy person who barely even gets a cold. But i get thats the thing about HA, it rattles on in someones brain without bein visible to people. But i am now convinced this is what it is.

[@jakerimma]

Ty. U have helped alot. I was really struggling with fear of strokes, heart attacks and cancer at any moment. It has faded away alot more since I have recognised that I have health anxiety.

[@cherellethinks]

I’m so pleased to have helped. ♥️

[@rosazapet7193]

OMG same here

[@adamoconnor6232]

I first realised I had health anxiety when I had swollen lymph nodes in my neck and armpits and one behind my ear. I started googling my symptoms and it told me I had lymphoma. When I read the symptoms from Google my body made me feel them symptoms. I had night sweats I was vomiting i had been touching my lymph nodes so much to check if they were getting smaller and that just made them bigger. After a few days of not sleeping or eating and hours of googling every day I went to my doctor and they said it was normal and I didn’t believe that so I got bloods done and a scan and I still was not 100% convinced that I didn’t have lymphoma. I started to realise after a few weeks that my symptoms started to go away when I was distracted and two years later I am not worried about it anymore. I have had a few other health scares since then.

[@yoland.a]

Thank God for your comment I have really had terrible health anxiety lately,❤❤

[@iVanessaIs]

I think after the 3rd call for an ambulance and 3rd visit to ER and they all said I was fine :( still going through it and having a big setback now. I just hope it gets easier soon

[@lenalena2]

I’ve had health anxiety for as long as I can remember. I remember being 9 years old and having full on panic attacks pretty much every day because I thought I was dying.

[@AdventureGameFan8]

The "Why you don't have ALS" video popped up after binging a bunch of videos about terminal diseases (watching that was so unhealthy). It was a breath of fresh air. I've had health anxiety for the last 4 years or so, started when I heard that there has been an increase in the number of younger people suffering from bowel cancer. Had a stomach bug and it took a while for things to go back to normal, so I started freaking out. After 2 years of worrying about bowel cancer on and off, in the summer of 2020 when everyday life became so stressful, I started getting worried about melanoma, breast cancer, MS etc. and that's when I realized that I do have health anxiety, but that alone did not make the thoughts go away. Also had some exams where some benign condition were discovered and I just stopped trusting my body. This video and comments make me feel less alone. Thank you all for sharing your stories. I am in therapy and trying to practice some breathing techniques. A friend has been encouraging me to follow Wim Hof's approach.

[@AdventureGameFan8]

If someone sees this, this video must have popped up again in my feed and I clicked on it again. I don't remember leaving this comment, but I was convinced at the time that I'd never overcome HA. Life was terrible. I'm happy to say that it got better.

[@irenaivanova9973]

hi ,thanks for sharing this ,it is really amazing and helpfull!! My health anxiety started with some very very strange feeling in my stomach ,it was like butterflies or waves in the stomach ,but than in a bad painful way ,I remember i also felt very restless,alert of my body and very strange and got right away bad insomnia .I wouldnt sleep for weeks if i refused to take sleeping pills ,which i hated taking.And than i started googling ...I thought i had a Fatal Familia Insomnia and i was going to die very soon as it was deadly .Than it came the brain tumor ,because i was so dizzy i couldnt even walk i was sure i had a brain tumor, than it was blood cancer ,because i was having bruises on my legs.I felt lumbs as well , then it was breast cancer ,kidney cancer ,bowel cancer/i was having very irregullar bowel movements/.and so on ...and i wouldnt believe any doctor saying i was perfectly fine...I thought they were not taking me seriously and were not doing the right tests ...After 5 years being very bad and also hospitalized i am now 1,5 year managing it ..sometimes better than other ,but still living every day with it,it has become a part of me and i am grateful for that because it has made me to who i am now !! Embrace it ! Say thank you to it!! Flirt with your symptoms dont be scared !! Dont run away from it! It is you! Just surrender and believe it is there for a reason ,it is there to make you who you need to be ,to make you stronger!! Meditate !

[@SarahLouReads]

I always used to have health anxiety about my teeth, but since it wasn't a common form of health anxiety I just called it dental anxiety. It was my mum who kept saying it was health anxiety. I realised it was actually health anxiety when I switched to worrying about moles, and when that left it was a worry of bowel cancer. I finally came to terms with the fact I had health anxiety this year, though looking back I have suffered with it since being 15, but it became heightened in my mid twenties. I am now on a journey of working through my health anxiety, but as with everything it will take time. I am strong and healthy, health anxiety will no longer take over me!

[@michaelshaw1662]

Love your accent

[@cherellethinks]

Thank you! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@andersb8625]

Have had HA my entire life. When I was 5-6 years old I couldnt sleep unless both (and it had to be both) parents checked if my heart was still beating. When I was 7 I was convinced I was turning into a werewolf (A WEREWOLF!!!!). Since it has been fear about various cancers and now it is ALS because of eye twitching that has caused twitching in my whole body. Also been hoarse for three weeks which stresses me out.

[@MCart1215]

My left bicep has been spasming uncontrollably for a month now - I would’ve checked it straight away but I’ve been to the doctors about multiple different things that turned out to be nothing and now idk if this next thing is just one of those or an outlier

[@prime9624]

My biggest iff about things is that whenever I randomly feel a certain symptoms that correlates to the condition I had just googled up I start to panic because genuinely If I were to have a stroke or a heart attack rn I'd be dead, my room is locked, my dad is a heavy sleeper and my mom wakes up overnight Rn I have some feeling of a tight chest. And an occasional heart palpitation, my breathing is off but it's not the HOLY HELL I CANT CARCH MY BREATHE type of off Now if It were any other day righr, I'd be in panic, the chest tightness will automatically make me think f*uck it's happening this Is it, I lived a pretty eventful 15 years, time to go. I wish there was a way for Google to tell us exactly if it's just a common problem or a serious emergency. It would really ease me. For now I suspecting its just a random feeling (I don't wanna say it's anything else or else ima be banging on my dad's door yelling at him to take me to emergency.

[@shaunchamberlain6714]

I feel you, my doctor thinks my hyperchondira is pathological

[@albionhustler9836]

I typed a long response and KZbin shot me to the next video...😞. Just wanted to say thank you and that your ALS vids are giving me piece of mind as I've been dealing with muscle twitches since March. I'm starting to realize that mainly what I have going on is HA. The thing is we have real physical things that happen to us and we want answers and then our minds sometimes make them out to be way worse than what they are.

[@emelia7529]

I also suffer with muscle spasms have yours gotten any better? I know this comment is from 4months ago lol

[@albionhustler9836]

@@emelia7529 hi Emelia, yes my spasms have gotten better and are way more infrequent now, so much that I barely notice them. A lot of it was me fixating on this. Right now the main thing I'm dealing with is an achy chest/lungs still not sure if it is real or me over thinking things. I wake up everyday hoping the aches go away and I feel normal again. I'm not there yet but still fighting to get there. I'm 43 BTW. I hope you are doing well. Her videos have really helped me.

[@moiseslopez5672]

My problem with anxiety is, how do we know if it’s actually something serious or if it’s just anxiety

[@cherellethinks]

We don’t! Not always at least. For me, I throw things in ‘the anxiety bucket’ until something proves me different. Because otherwise, it’s a life of misery!

[@moiseslopez5672]

@@cherellethinks yeah it’s so annoying and it just makes it worst, I got specialist from specialist and even when they tell my I’m fine I still worry.

[@isabellajean368]

Can I ask you what your symptoms were because I'm going through this current thing and I'm convinced I have a brain tumor

[@EchoesofDK]

Anxiety In Me (DK B) There is darkness everywhere I wonder why? Everything is fading this is the day Feeling like I'm dying There are weird sensations Running all over me Oh it's too heavy and gloomy Damn my heartbeat is getting faster I'm going to faint Somebody help me oh I can't breathe anymore My soul is coming out Everything is blurry in front I'm loosing my mind I'm so scared 24/7 I wonder why? I couldn't figure it out Lot of thoughts running through My mind,what if? On and off and so on Do i deserve this ? yes ! I convinced that It's freaking me out, a thing Called Devine Rath Just making it worst I just want to be normal I don't know how That extreme heat on my head Feels like going to explode I can't take it damn Went to health care centre Made everything is ok I'm ok ! guess what? It's temporary, i freaz Nothing feels right in a second On and off and so on Waking up in the middle of the night Damn that's insane For a moment i thought, I'm death I wonder why I can't sleep, something is wrong Feeling crazy Trying to be normal day passes On and off and so on Nothing changes doing anything and Everything I wonder what is normal Tears falls like waterfall everyday I wonder why I'm so dizzy AFS Nothing seems to be ok I'm not warrior but I'm fighting Keep fighting! Then I pray take it off from me At the end That's the only thing I can do At least for now .. On and off and so on ~DK B I'm 21 this is what I'm going trough lately

[@ElementalSoundWorks]

My friend knows she over-worries and is a bit of a hypochondriac, but I don’t think she grasps the extent of it. (I also have some health anxiety but I am able to rationalize it now.) I think for me, it was more of a gradual thing. Accepting it anyway. I still Google symptoms, but I am able to tell myself that it is probably a less serious option. I rarely jump to worst case scenarios now. When my friend has really bad health worries, she is convinced all her symptoms are an illness and not her health anxiety causing her to manifest symptoms. I wish I knew how to help her because it really is taking over her life. I’ve tried sending your videos and send her articles, and tell her examples of my own experiences, but nothing works.

[@usure9250]

Love you

[@cherellethinks]

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[@emilysgottalent4806]

Two months after I was diagnosed with anxiety was when I realised how bad it can actually get since I ended up in Hospital with chest pain, I rather call it a hypochondriac

[@AnamuraUniverse]

I am not sure if you will read this comment but I feel I want to share this. Thank you for making this channel. I want to say my experience as noob medicine student. Over the years I searched symptoms by myself etc until it reached a point I had some serious health problems and doctors didn't pay much attention to me, so I decided to study medicine at last. It was a plan that got delayed for many years for life stuff but this year I started. I want to say something that I believe is very important. Reading symptoms in google and doing all the things you say in your videos, it's going to create health anxiety because you don't really have much idea. Let me explain further. Try to study medicine more methodically. Start with anatomy, organs, pathology etc. You will go through something called "medicine student syndrome", that is basically hypochondriac but for medical students. But this is something you can overcome, because if not, then all doctors working would be mad crazy! If you don't study seriously, you are just getting bits of knowledge and then you will always have health anxiety. But if you study and you manage to overcome the "medicine student syndrome", that will be better. You are doing a good job as you are trying to live with uncertainty - it's very hard, but there is no other way. I study medicine by myself with medical texts from university students. Currently studying general pathology. In a few months it will be the turn of specialities, where I should dig more into system diseases and I should do all things you say to never do, like search forums, watch youtube videos, join groups... But you must see this as facing your fears to try to overcome them. If you do all this just for reasurance, you'll never overcome your fears. I had anxiety crysis not long ago when studying general pathology because many months of accumulated stress but I'm getting better. I still feel anxious, I had to turn off fb groups but youtube keeps suggesting me videos of diseases like ALS, pulmonary fibrosis or various cancers, and ugh I haven't turned that off yet because I don't know... I try to see it from the point of face your fears, I should act like a doctor, not get crazy (even if I am learning just for personal knowledge). So after this long story, I say again thank you, because your channel helps me to remember that the brain can be a shit and get paranoid about everything. Seriously, you can't imagine (or maybe yes...). Studying digestive system, I have esophagus cancer... then studying respiratory, I have fibrosis.... then studying nervous, I have parkinson (lol I'm just 26 years old...). It must be supervivence instinct that makes the brain to think in the worst possible outcome. It's good to come to a channel with such awareness and positivity about health anxiety to try to relax at times. I would just encourage you and all your followers that if you want to get rid of health anxiety, I don't think the best is hide all the stuff. It's just temporary. I'd suggest studying it and face your fears. I know that when I study diseases in the next months I'm gonna be a broken human full of fears, but I have hopes that after it's finished and I spend some time away from medical stuff, I will be more knowledgeable, and I can see my fears and face them, and not get super anxious. Best wishes, sorry for long text :D have a good day!

[@denisebaldwin4841]

Thank you for sharing and your hard work ! I often think I should face my fears and find out facts about anatomy or the human body but it takes me so long to to get over a new ‘illness’ that I think I’ll have to wait a while along my journey . Take care 😊

[@AnamuraUniverse]

@@denisebaldwin4841 certainly when you study anatomy you can understand some things better and it helps to discard diseases. Don't attempt to autodiagnose but try to think like a doctor. Like if you think you have pulmonary fibrosis but xray shows normal lungs, it doesn't make sense. But of course you just know this after study because unfortunately almost no doctor will explain things to you.

[@Healinghands829]

Becoming an RN may have been the worst thing for me. I then realized all of the things that could go wrong and surrounded myself with the sick people I take care of. As a cancer survivor I’m already on high alert, so then working in the hospital and seeing literally every thing that could go wrong and how people ignored their symptoms made my anxiety worse! Im working on becoming a naturopathic RN so I can get away from western medicine for my own mental health.

[@erikalopez6454]

How do you get through it? I feel Like being alive is so hard.. i hate it

[@cherellethinks]

Hi Erika! So sorry to hear you are struggling. It is so hard but I promise it can get better!

[@annsiano5195]

Chantelle- could your anxiety have been caused by your hormonal changes due to having a baby and not just because it was health anxiety???

[@diyamrai]

hi how about your twitching? it is gone or still having some times ?

[@MCart1215]

Do you have it? Is it a whole limb twitching or just a muscle spasm? Cuz I’m having a spasm

[@rosazapet7193]

Does any body els suffer from back and rib pain i keep telling my self it anxiety but after a friend told me she had same symptoms and it was a tumor inside her stomach i started to freak out

[@tomsale5142]

Had rib pain years now shoulders everyday do muscles crack and pop

[@CourtneyD.with.Anxiety]

My ribs & back hurt constantly…I’m still working on convincing myself that it is just anxiety

[@tomsale5142]

​@@CourtneyD.with.Anxietyjust found your reply didn't come in my inbox do you have hypomobility had muscle pain 7 years now though has moved I do have heds hypomobility how ling have you had it best wishes to you😊

[@Dominik40301]

Wait, so you say that you are not a medical therapist in video description, but there you have a video My best advice as health anxiety therapist where you say different. xd

[@cherellethinks]

This video was the 6th of June 2022. It’s now 2024, I qualified later on

[@sakuraharunaxx2451]

For me, it was, when I was scared, that my illness I have beaten (aka trigeminal neuralgia, caused by structural abnormality that resulted nerve damage), will come back (because thats what you will find on google) that I completly somatized almost all my symptoms back and I was convinced, that it's a relapse. It scared the hell out of me. I went to my neurologist and she did an exam and i didn't show any signs of trigeminal neuralgia relapse - I was just feeling the symptoms, but there weren't any signs of them. It was all normal. Few months after that it finally started to make sense, that I do not have a relapse, because my nerve is now okay and I did have a succesful surgery and treatment. It was just me convinced, that it will come back and me being obsessed with my health.

[@tomsale5142]

How are you now

[@sumeenahmed5099]

First comment ❤️

[@cherellethinks]

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