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| Author: | lucidly [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:43 am ] |
| Blog Subject: | Sever Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and Hypocondria. |
I've been dealing with sever anxiety and ocd since I was younger and have had depression for now twice. I've been depressed nearly 3mo and it seems i've developed bad hypocondria. my dad has a terminal illness and I think that's where my fear comes from but I don't know what to do. currently, i've been having random aches throughout my body, but not often. Within the past now 5 days, I've had arm and leg aches. For my arms, it's near my shoulder, top of my chest, near my elbows, wrists, shoulder blades. but never all at the same time, one spot aches for a while (sometimes pain) then it'll switch to another. It's the same for my left and right arm. Also, on my right leg, I've had aches below my hip. being a hypocondriac and having anxiety, this freaked me out ammidately. I'm still highly worried about it now. I've told my mom, she says it's because I'm badly depressed (sleeping way more than usually, eating more, not happy, loss of interest, lack of focus and motivation). But, again my hypocondriac side is freaked. There's also some random aches in my neck sometimes, it's a bit stiff. I work behind a computer most days for a good amount of time. what is wrong with me? should i be worried? |
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| Author: | apocthecomet [ Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:06 pm ] |
Becareful with hypochondria. As an adult, i developed it when i was 20 (i have no major illness or psychotics in my family history). Regardless, i had a weird lymph node, and unfortunately it stemmed into anxiety. Il tell you upfront that i suffered for around 6 months without taking meds. Thought i was dying of everything in the book. The thing that really knocked me out of that phase (and into my current) was that i eventually just understood that my odds of walking out into the street and getting hit by a bus 5 minutes from now, were far greater than developing any sort of chronic or life threatening disease. Also, how many people go to the hospital and say, "doc, i have a terminal illness" They will just laugh at you, no one does that. |
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