Brain Tumour.

I've managed to convince myself that I've got a brain tumor or some deadly brain disease. I'm getting headaches more frequently now, and I zone out all the time. I know it's probably nothing but I can't stop thinking about it, which makes me head hurt more.

Just felt good to get that out.

Has your diet changed or have you been losing weight? That would cause your blood-pressure to become lower which would explain the 'zoning out'. Also, some people are just born susceptible to headaches / migraines. My brother has been getting them his entire life and he also 'zones out' a lot due to a low BP.

If you are truly concerned about this then arrange an appointment with your local doctor.

Same here. I convinced myself I had a Brain Tumor for the longest time. I was so convinced that I was going to die that I used to go into the fetal position on the bathroom floor and cry about how my life was going to end. I used to constantly touch my head and try to find where the tumor was (in my imagination).

Now I laugh about it.

heya...i was just browsing the forums and saw your post, so i figure what better time to join and post when i can relate to what you're talkin about!

when i was about 16 (i'm 23 now) i experienced my first panic attack ever. it was pretty emotionally scarring i think. i was sitting in class and all of a sudden my neck got sore and i thought i tasted copper in my mouth and all the things i knew about strokes / seizures made me freak out. my blood pressure was 220/120 when the school nurse took it, i ended up in the e.r. and hopsital. for about 8 hours i thought i was going to die. probably about the most disturbing incident anyone can experience, definitely life-changing. a few weeks after that, since i was convinced it had to be something with my brain, i started obsessing over a brain tumor / something else (even tho they took a CT scan and w/e other tests that revealed it to be nothing else)

while i was obsessing over the fact it could be a brain tumor, i did a lot of the"spacing out" you describe and i would realize i was spaced out and that would cause me to have short little panic attacks (like 5 minutes). it felt like i was constantly spacing out. and it just gets worse and worse because i thought my spacing out was caused by a brain problem when my spacing out was really just me thinking about my brain! it's a pretty crappy cycle that's really hard to break. i don't really have a fear of a brain tumor anymore because if i had one i'd probably be dead by now

unfortunately for me, my panic attacks have gone away but now i have become a hypochondriac and experience wicked anxiety from it(any strange sensation i experience, that was probably there but i never took notice before my first panic attack, is some life-threatening debilitating health issue)

i wish i had some advice for you to make it better but really for me the only thing that helped with the brain tumor fear was time, even tho i had tests that showed nothing wrong. this disorder sucks

crap i just realized im like a year late

oh well

Hey anxiety sucks,

Yeh, you're a year late! - This is amazing. Anyway, is your hypochondria causing you much problems these days? I have never really had hypochondria so can't really relate to what you're feeling too well.

Kevin