This is what happened with Rhea and Aryan. Every time Aryan fell ill, he would sit down with his laptop and look for all the symptoms, remedies and tests required in the case.
However counsellors say that a hypochondria is an illness that many people suffer from. Some seek all the information on the imagined illness, some consult doctor after doctor, and some go the other way and refuse to see a doctor — living in a limbo with the fear of the unknown without taking any medication.
Counsellors also say that it can be highly stressful for the partner at the receiving end and if not dealt properly can drive a wedge between the partners. They suggest going about it calmly so as to not alienate the partner. Read all the Two to Tango columns here. I, unfortunately, know this from personal experience and have not been well served by the medical establishment. For obvious reasons.
Nothing you say to her will make the problem go away. Everytime she fears some illness you can reassure her that she's ok. But that's a short term solution and it only serves to reinforce her OCD. Giving her more attention, getting her interested in other things will do no good.
I've dealt with hypochondria most of my life. Rationally I know that there is nothing wrong with me but this illness plants the idea in your mind and it's almost impossible to let it go. She needs cognitive therapy and medication. It's a miserable way to live and will only drag you down. Get her help! One of the things I encourage my sad, depressed friends to do is take advantage of medical insurance - if they have it - and make arrangements to begin seeing a therapist or counselor. There are all sorts of neurological ailments that can be cured, mitigated or helped with medication and therapy.
However, tread lightly - especially if your girlfriend doesn't think that she is a hypochondriac. Perhaps sit down and talk with her about it the next time it comes up - suggest that you're really sad that you see her making herself so miserable and anxious and would like to see her get help.
Even offer to go with her to sessions. Making it seem like you want to help her and that your efforts are being made because you love her and not because the behavior is bothering you and you're pushing her away I'm a raging hypochondriac. What's helped me, besides therapy, is being as healthy as possible. I'm a vegetarian and cook nearly all my meals from scratch, with plenty of fruits and veggies.
I exercise daily. And stop running yourself down. Low self esteem brings all these issues together. I feel these too. This year has honestly been the worse and reality has hit me right in the face. In april I got a shocking message from my teacher saying how our classmate had passed away due to cancer.
Then in June, another girl from our school, who was close to my classmates, suddenly died during her sleep. I had to go to the eye doctor and he convinced me it was not a brain tumour. It then stopped. Then, I began having awful pain on my back, chest and every night I thought I was going to die in my sleep. I went to at least seven different doctors and got tests done.
After so many tests, it turned out I had simply eaten something wrong. Dont know if this could actually detect anything and everything was normal. What triggered this new heart disease fear in my might have been the doctor telling me my pulse was too high. Is this hypochondria? Andy, I feel for your story. I am now 61 and have had it since I was Please take it easy on yourself. Know you are not alone. Try to take comfort knowing that you are aware if what it is and not just you.
Praying for you my friend! Hang in there buddy, I feel for you i have had anxiety, constant worrier I have googled every illness possible. So hang in there think positive and distract yourself.
All the best. I am always worrying about anything, panic and thinks something over the limit which creates fear disturbing sleep. Worrying about not getting proper sleep and thinking too much is my problem. The slightest of sudden sound disturbs my sleep. You should try smoking weed before bed not alot just a hit, itll put you right to sleep.
Also some self reflection might help too. Just think if you did pass in your sleep, it would be a nice comfortable way to go. Or mabye watch a stand up comedian until you fall asleep might take your mind off things. You may like your way, but not everyone would. What I did eat caused more than four hours of grand mal seizures with convulsive tremors, aphasia, loss of ability to use numbers, and resulted in an ambulance ride to the nearest ER, humiliation, and a huge hospital bill.
That was no hypochondria. My grown daughter cried, because she thought I was going to die. The EMTs were concerned about it, also. Trying the wrong thing can result in worse problems than what it was supposed to solve. I hate to break it to you but your doctors are lying about cannabis alergies. Cannabis does the exact opposite and stops siezures.
You most likely had a panic attack coupled with an existing underlying illnesd. Get a second opinion before you spend thousands in the crooked modern health system. That is what is used to treat seizures. My son is an adult married with 4 kids.
Recently hechad pneumonia and was in the hospital for 5 days now he has returned home and is still acting like he is dying. He will not leave the couch, screams at the kids if they even talk, asks his wife for everything and yells at her. He was a big beer drinker I mean everyday he drank beer.
He has been diagnosed with anxiety but refuses to take his medicine. Mostly putting this here in case somebody in the future comes across it.
There are some people for whom weed affects — like the way you described above. For people like you and me it can trigger latent psychosis, or aggravate preexisting psychosis. It can trigger other effects like nausea, headache, hallucinations, etc. It causes hellish migraines that hunt me for hours and hours, the worst I got were visual hallucinations, thankfully minor, and paranoia on top of the migraine and nausea. Weed can trigger some of the biggest panic attacks.
I never touch the stuff. It is not a cure-all and is not for everyone. I was like that after learning of a neighbor who died in his sleep. It took a long time to fall asleep as I would jump awake a lot. I sleep comfortably now. Anxiety has many tricks. Fear of falling asleep is but one of them. All of that worrying for noth. Relax all of your muscles. That always helps me. I have this all the time. This is such a hard one to answer.
I used to be so bad with this I used to set an alarm on my phone to go off every 10 minutes throughout the night to make sure I did t sleep for to long.
Talk to someone. And let them watch you fort while. It really helps to have someone with you. My child was very sick from the day she was born. Kidney failure then a transplant. She is 24 and I am just now realizing she is also a hypochondriac. Her kidney failure is real but all the other hospital visits have not been for an actual pain from an illness.
I quit my job, have had to drop out of school and stay home. I am seriously angry! I have not said anything to her but i am taking her to a psychologist next week. Your child is actually ill. Might actually calm her down to know someone cares and is there for her. I myself witnessed a lived one nearly die twice and got phobias turns out I had ptsd from it and sever anxiety. None of that is self inflicted. When you had her, you made that agreement to make sacrifices when you gave birth and raised her.
You quit your job and dropped out of school because you wanted to be there for her, right? Then how is that her fault? My mother was just like you. She was angry at me being concerned about my health. To this day, my mother and I have an estranged relationship.
Do you really want your daughter to cast you out of her life once she does start to feel better and stronger? My daughter underwent major heart surgery at two months of age. I am wondering if I may be. A hypochondriac or that I simply have a lousy M. I felt like I had a horrendous infection after the surgical removal of the cyst on my Ear Lobe, tests came back as no infection,so for the first time ever I checked what test he did,he did a test for swimmers ear,not a test on the discharge coming from my wound.
Usually I think that I have one my main disease for a good months sometimes almost a year and then I think I have a bunch of other diseases but am less focused on them but still worried. Usually if I read books, watch movies, or a friend is talking about a disease, I will later a few months after think that I have that disease. Also one time when I was little I was watching little house in the prairie-when the girl had to get her appendix removed, the next day I was convinced I had to get mine removed because my stomach was hurting a lot.
Another time I thought I had lucemia because my nose bleed a few times. I also am constantly looking up symptoms.
Anyways let me know what you think, thanks:. I spend a ridiculous amount of time looking up symptoms and self-diagnosing myself, and I usually fixate on something after I see something that triggers it reading a book where the main character has brain cancer, seeing a sign that says a product I purchased may contain some potentially toxic chemical, etc.
Thank you for putting up with my obnoxiousness, everyone. Yes, I have Hypochondria, and your symptoms are identical. Now that you know this, one major thing that helps is not looking up symptoms. Trust me Emily. I feel exactly the same way. If we are learning a disease in the biology class, after the class I immediately convince myself that I have that disease no matter if it is genetic, virus or even HIV.
How can one have Aids when he is virgin? In that case, you are hypochondriac and the sooner you learn that is the sooner you can find appropriate help. I am crying while I am writing this comment because I never knew what hypochondria was eventhough am big one.
My mom died when I was young so my aunt gets angry when she spends a lot of money in the hospital running different tests and the reports come back negative. She thinks that I am lying about my problems but they are very real to me. Couple of months ago I was misdiagnosed with blood cancer and I after that I became even more hypochondriac. I was like that too. It will get better. Definitely go see a psychiatrist or psychologist to help you through this with cognitive behaviour therapy.
Also try CBD drops. She even went to the ER for a splinter once. You certainly have a huge problem. I empathize with you greatly! Then tell them candidly what you notice she is doing.
Because of privacy issues they may not be allowed to share their opinions or medical information about your mum, with you, but they can certainly listen to YOUR concerns, and if this i somethng they may not have considerred, it will alert them as something to look for in the future, and if — as is most likely- the possibility of hypochondria has crossed their mind, too, then your imput may help to confirm their diagnosis and make them act to get the correct help for your mum.
But be aware — the biggest problem you and her doctors have is convincing yout mum that she has a mental illness, not a physical one and thus gettng her to agree to recieving the correct help! Shes sat me down and broke the news that she may have cancer or a tumor more than once to me..
Not even a week later its something else.. I cry about it everyday at random moments…. I pray for you all as i hope you do for me too. Even though I have valid concerns…it seems as though just worrying about it without taking action is turning me more and more into a full blown hypochondriac! I fit most of the criteria listed above! I have cancer in my family…grandmother and aunt died from it…other aunts currently being evaluated for suspicious lumps.
Hi Mepragoo. You are not alone here, I also put off doctors appointments for the fear of finding out bad news. Iv been researching what happens to the body when we die and the fact that we ALL one day will die no matter what. That it the most certain thing we can count on.! Please go to the doctor if your symptoms are getting worrying. Medicine has come a very long way.
Best of luck. The idea that all of us will die one day, no matter what, is what frightens me. I always think I have cancer or a tumour or any kind of disease, and I worry about every single little pain, but I avoid the doctors.
Help me please lol. I have all of the above, and I specifically worry about my sexual health and unplanned pregnancy. At the moment I am overthinking everything and have booked an STD Screening which is a good thing anyway, but I am extremely worried about the results. I am very responsible when it comes to sex and i always use condoms as well as the pill.
I started having nightmares and I struggle to sleep. I have anxiety and it sucks. I also fear unplanned pregnancy. One time I thought that I could feel a baby kicking inside my stomach. I have the same thing right now and its been 2 months seens i been feeling like i have Hiv even though i went to do a 4th generation and came out negative and i feel real symptoms.
I was wondering if I might have this. I also worry that someone I know or I am going to get in a fatal car accident often times. I just want to stop worrying about dying all the time. Izzy, you sound exactly like me! I struggle with the same things all the time, every day.
I rarely go to the movies anymore because I tend to have anxiety attacks when I do go. Even the past couple of days he has convinced himself he is having a heart attack because of a bit of indigestion. This is no longer a marriage — his hypochondria is destroying what we once had. You have my condolences, Sue. Therapy would help.
Talk to an adult you trust about this. I know everything must be hard, stay strong. You will get through this. I would also like to know if I have hypochondria. I am 19 and attend a very well known public university. I am currently a second year engineering student. I did good in school only because my elementary school was great and by the time I got to high school I no longer put any effort into school.
I switched to a new middle school and cried my last day before switching because I would not see my friends again. I had to start over. I did pretty good in middle school. In high school I got into marijuana and tried lsd at After that lsd experience I felt that I had had depression my whole life and finally it was lifted.
I felt good for 9 months and became vegan but then i started smoking weed again. My last year of high school I did not try at all. I lost my position as valedictorian but still was ranked 3rd. Fast forward to first year at university, I did really bad. I felt dumb so I gave nootropics a try, but I would take so many and mix it with weed, I felt that I had induced psychosis upon myself. Then I stopped all drugs and had a great quarter, I felt amazing.
But then i went back home and my mentaliy went back to the one i had in my last year of high school. Sign up today. Never created a password? Create one here. Already have an account? Log in here. Thanks, but no thanks.
No, thanks I'm already a PureWow fan. No, thanks I hate pretty things. And there are definitely ways to have a healthy relationship with a worrywart. Let us count them. It can be highly stressful to spend all your time with someone who requires endless reassurance, as well as to worry that he may actually be critically ill this time.
Those romantically linked to hypochondriacs are most vulnerable to contagion. The same skills you use to help them cope with anxiety—distinguishing feelings from facts, breathing exercises—may work for you, too. Some doctors suggest hypochondriasis is genetic.
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