Does anyone else suffer from hypochondria?

[izzymarie]

I seem to have become a full blown hypochondriac and it sucks! Within this month alone I've convinced myself that I had the swine flu, my appendix was going to rupture, and the occasional headaches and dizziness I get are due to a brain tumor. Ahh! Does anyone else constantly obsess over things that could be wrong with them??

 

[izzymarie]

Oh yea, heart disease is one for me too. I always wonder if my "panic attacks" are actually some kind of underlying heart condition ::

 

[izzymarie]

Yea I definitely agree that alot of people probably have it to some degree, but if you already have another anxiety related problem (like we do), it makes it a million times more severe! I mean it's getting to the point where I can't even let a headache pass without going on google and looking up possible kinds of disease's or illnesses I could have.. it's getting totally out of control for me!

 

[javoon]

well i dont know if its hypochondria . but im always thinking im going to die..like if i leave the house im like omg what if i got into a car wreck

 

[blue-roses]

I'm a bit of a hypochondriac when it comes to physical things (e.g. the typical "ohmigod-I've-got-a-headache-it-must-be-a-brain-tumour" thing), but the worst thing is my fear of going insane...every week I'm worrying about a new mental illness, reading lists of symptoms and trying to convince myself I have all those things, then asking my family what they think, then getting stressed out when they tell me I DON'T fit those criteria! A while back it was schizophrenia, then it was bipolar, then it was Aspergers, then most recently it's been BPD...

I diagnosed myself with SA but that's different; my parents, a couple of doctors and the counsellor I see at uni actually agree with me, they're just not doing anything about it.

 

[blue-roses]

^ Yeah, that's what fuels my worries; I've already got several phobias, depression etc., so I am actually at risk...!

 

[Remus]

I used to get hypochondria with my panic disorder, as I beat the PD I started to make a concious move to ignore any "slight" physical symptoms that would have triggered off a "hypochondria attack"

I think the two disorders are similar

 

[Panda1982]

I seem to have become a full blown hypochondriac and it sucks! Within this month alone I've convinced myself that I had the swine flu, my appendix was going to rupture, and the occasional headaches and dizziness I get are due to a brain tumor. Ahh! Does anyone else constantly obsess over things that could be wrong with them??

I have hypocondria too but i dont think it's always unfounded

 

[coyote]

....man what a pain in the effing ass!

no, it's in your head

 

[DespairSoul]

I dont know if i have hypochondria but sometimes i catch me overanalyze to much whats wrong with me if anything hurt me and my fantasy start work on imaginative level thats could be something much worse as use to be. Just paranoic i would call that.

 

[fitftw]

I just always feel paranoid that I'm getting sick. I can't breathe around sick people in fear that I'll catch whatever they have.

 

[Liam17]

Yeah i thought i had cancer the other day :/