Who else suffer from health anxiety?

Speak to a therapist that specializes in OCD

I have always had anxiety. But my health anxiety started for me when I became a mam. It’s only gotten worse as I’ve had my second child and it honestly is exhausting I check my skin for new freckles/marks etc and convince myself that I have cancer and it gets to the point I have really really bad anxiety attacks. It’s gotten that bad I went and saw my GP and I’ve been put on medication it’s early days so can’t say wether it’s worked yet or not. But I know how it feels and it is such an awful thing here if you need anyone x

This happened to me following having a breast cancer scare a couple of years ago. I have done CBT and it really has helped me. Challenging your thoughts etc. hope things get better for you x

Mine has driven me mad recently 😢 it’s so debilitating isn’t it. I just want to wake up one day and not worry about my health and just live a normal life like I use to!!

I do! Currently worrying about a tremor I seem to keep getting in the back of my head every night I lay down 🫠 I keep taking my hair out and re putting it back up not that it’s helping in anyway

@Ellie omg me too I use to have it when I was a teen but never this intense I would say after my first child everything changed for me I was 26/27 then and now I’m 30 and still it’s the same Thing after I had my second child I had lots of symptoms like dizzyness after birth which I was so fixated on so I didn’t think much about checking my breast however now that my dizziness has gotten better I’m worried again about my breast and lumps etc i literally check everyday I wake up feeling soo anxious it’s literally taken up my life all I do so check and I even was told that your only meant to check after your period is ended like three days after not every day like the way I do

@Lauren what is CBT hun? And had it helped you? And do you feel much better now

@Candace hey hun it’s horrible I know I just feel so upset everyday that I even live like this now! And what would you say is your health anxiety related too? And have you found ways to stop searching for lumps etc

@Sam for me it’s one thing after another first I was fixated on dizziness and now it’s this again it’s been 3 years and I’m struggling with my health anxiety I felt like j was getting better at one point but it’s came back

Like others have said I've always had anxiety and I have emetaphobia but since having my little boy it has become a lot worse and ended up with severe health anxiety, scared to go out and if anyone inside the house was ill they would have to segregate themselves. I'm currently going through a bit of a health scare after two iffy smear tests and I'm finding that I am on edge constantly but I'm trying to go through some of the things I learnt from CBT. It is really hard I get it.