Am I a hyperchondriac-please read and tell me what ya think. - Mental Health Message Board

kimiesoscared · 08-13-2007, 10:55 AM

I don't know what is going on with me but I have gone through some health scares in my life that Thankfully have turned out to be nothing serious. Yet I am finding myself worrying so much about my health-I obsess about paps and *****'s a constant fear of cancer. I have my first ***** coming up in a couple of weeks since I just hit 40 and I have been thinking about it every day and obsessing about it to a degree of feeling for lumps every few days-I feel nothing out of the ordinary but if you push hard enough I feel bumps and lumps to then feel nothing the next day. I feel sad and I have stopped exercising-there is a part of my brain that says "why are you exercising for when you are probably going to find out from the dr that you have cancer". I know this sounds crazy but this is how I have been thinking. I remember going through this around 10-15 years ago and then it totally went away. I either am obsessed with my health or just don't think and worry about it at all. Can someone give me some feed back on what the hell is going on with me-pleeeeeese. I feel like this is controlling my every thought and feeling.

Moldova · 08-13-2007, 12:31 PM

I am not sure what to make of this: obsessing over your health of severe depression? Usually when people see so much negativity and expect negative things happen to them - it could be a sign of depression.
Why wouldn't you go and talk to somebody who can determen what this is exactly since it rules your daily life and brings so much dark thoughts to your mind? I am sure you can leave a normal life and i am sure that help is out there for you...
I had and I have so many serious health issues, many surgeries and as we speak i am on disability. But i always feel "could be worse, young kids die from cancer, but I am still here - that is what important". This helps not to concentrate on yourself and enjoy life a bit more since not many people sooo lucky to be 100% pain free or not to have health issues. Everybody has something, but it does not mean life is over.
Best of luck to you, i hope you will find the answers for yourself!!

kimiesoscared · 08-13-2007, 02:38 PM

I suppose it could be depression - since I have been told I have a mild depression and given antidepressants. I will just have to check into it further to make sure-because this is not living.

rosequartz · 08-13-2007, 02:47 PM

sounds like OCD
check out the OCD board.....lots of people obcess over health related stuff

golden_eagle · 08-31-2007, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by kimiesoscared

I don't know what is going on with me but I have gone through some health scares in my life that Thankfully have turned out to be nothing serious. Yet I am finding myself worrying so much about my health-I obsess about paps and *****'s a constant fear of cancer. I have my first ***** coming up in a couple of weeks since I just hit 40 and I have been thinking about it every day and obsessing about it to a degree of feeling for lumps every few days-I feel nothing out of the ordinary but if you push hard enough I feel bumps and lumps to then feel nothing the next day. I feel sad and I have stopped exercising-there is a part of my brain that says "why are you exercising for when you are probably going to find out from the dr that you have cancer". I know this sounds crazy but this is how I have been thinking. I remember going through this around 10-15 years ago and then it totally went away. I either am obsessed with my health or just don't think and worry about it at all. Can someone give me some feed back on what the hell is going on with me-pleeeeeese. I feel like this is controlling my every thought and feeling.

Hi,
Let me assure you ,you are not alone with this emotion
I suffer from fear of death,fear of loss of control as well as fear of the unknown. I am a hypochondriac i am sure, and have lived in fear of illness and death for most of my adult life, i am now 53 and every year for the past 13 years (since i hit 40) i have imagined i was dying from one illness or another. It has been a long hard struggle but on the positive side of the coin , my fears and anxieties kept me searching for answers ,looking for something to overcome the terror attackes and frightening fears that had control of my my life by studying emotions and anatomy and finally becoming a hypnotherapist.
FEAR is a hard emotion to overcome , even now i still get scared every time i experience a twinch of pain anywhere in my body,
but now i accept "me" warts and all and i have learned to just live in the moment, I study pranic healing and spiritual well being. this helps soothe my soul
May god be with you and bless you with happy peaceful thoughts
Golden_eagle