by megan1986 » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:15 pm
dont you worry, you are not a serial killer, lol....Those traits aren't accurate, and you didn't even have all of them....I have squirted cats with water...that isn't torture, it doesn't hurt them, it just startles them, I love pets, and I would never hurt them....real sadistic people will, like mentioned earlier, toruture little animals to death, because they are sick people that want control and like seeing others in pain.....
....on another note, I can to relate....I am a hypochondiac, not so much anymore, but I understand what it is like....from age 10 until around fourteen, I used to take my temperature 20-30 times a day, I had the thermomeater by my bed side, and I took it with me everywhere, I always knew when my temperature was, and if it went up or down I would panic....and I wanted to be sick, and I would convince myself that I was.....I don't know how many brain tumors I thought I had, and neurological conditions, and everything....I think I felt that if I were sick I would be taken care of....And with your abusive past, that maybe what you are looking for as well...
Eventually my thermomeater went dead, and my mom refused to buy me a new one (and I was too young to have a job), I then learned about hypochondria, I denied it at first, but now have taught myself that if I feel sick, I probably am not sick, and just to ignore it....I still search for symptoms, I can't help it, but at least I realise what I am doing....I might have a numb finger, headache and a face twitch, and I might think about it, obsses about it, run it through my head over and over again, and look up causes, ask about it online, but I reolise if I find a cause it doesn't matter, because it is in my head...
The funny thing is, last year I had strep throat for a month, my throat hurt, and I was convinced it was just in my head, and I kept telling myself that, lol, eventually I gave in and took my temperature (this was around the 26th of December when my soar throat started on the 2nd of December), and I had a high fever, I went in and got checked out, sure enough, a very bad case of strep, lol..so now I am in the opposite end of the spectum...I think I am never sick because I don't know what symptoms are real or not...lol