Health Anxiety Catastrophic Thoughts - Explained!
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2022
- Hi everyone! Thank you so much for watching my video. I hope it gave you some comfort to know that you aren’t alone. Health anxiety can be so isolating but I want you to know that so truly understand.
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Cherelle, you’ve prevented me from spiraling a NUMBER of times. It’s nice to hear someone that has gone, and is going through a similar situation as you and it kind of puts everything into perspective. Thank you for everything you do.
Seriously, every time I feel myself going down the health black hole, I come here. It’s my safe place.
I was always panicking about size of my Lymph nodes.
6 months back I saw your video on size of Lymph Nodes and I felt relieved.
I was always sad. I felt like I was going to die. I was depressed.
I remember when I started with anxiety/panic disorder I was always at the ER and always calling the paramedics thinking something was happening to me and they weren’t finding it. It’s a horrible way to live even though I’m on meds I still get moments of those thoughts. I can’t hear about someone being sick or that passed away cuz I start having intrusive thoughts. I can relate with every ache and pains I start thinking crazy things . It’s exhausting
Don't be anxious just stay calm and keep yourself busy in different tasks and activities. Two months ago i suffered from the situation like twitches and muscle spasm but now i am fine and happy. I suggest you to Spend more time with your friends and family rather than staying alone and also stay close to the nature by often visiting to the village sites and farm houses.
I know it’s so bad to google and come to CZcams for reassurance but your channel along with many others have helped me with the catastrophic thinking that pulls us back daily to fight the health anxiety and symptoms we all experience. Super helpful to kno your not alone
I honestly think I'm getting to the point where I'm getting better now, this week my irrational brain has been telling me I'm having problems with my heart, last week it was a tumour the size of an orange in my stomach. Now I'm at the point of thinking oh well this will last for two weeks and then it'll be something else. I'm actually intrigued to find out what it will be next, maybe it'll be toe cancer? This way of thinking is actually reducing that irrational voice by sort of ridiculing it in my mind. I'm actually getting bored of health anxiety and it seems to be helping.
Hi. I just subscribed today and I thank God for helping me find you. I have been suffering with health anxiety for longer than I want to admit. I have kids and I always am scared something is going to happen to me and I'm going to have to leave them. So I get catastrophic thoughts for everything. You are spot on when it's one thing than I find out I'm okay and than it becomes another thing. Google is my worst enemy. Yet I can't stop. I am trying to get professional help but that right now has been so hard. Thank you for showing me that I'm not alone. I'm definitely watching your videos when these thoughts overwhelm me. Again thank you for putting yourself out there and showing people like me that we're not alone.
your videos are so so helpful, i have really bad health anxiety and i actually stumbled across your channel while googling my symptoms, i have these lumps two in my groin, one on my back, one in my neck, and i have had the one in my neck for over a year now, no change, hasn't grown at all, but im convinced that i have lymphoma. i actually watched your lymph node video that you made a while back and it helped me so much!
You've helped me SO much. I've just signed up to your patreon for the tier that gets me a monthly 1-1 with you because I desperately need your wisdom. I feel so trapped and a slave to my health anxiety 😢
Thank you for sharing! I truly can relate. It's a good feeling that someone can be relatable. Blessing over you!
I wish i found your channel in 2021 right after googling my symptoms which caused a bad panic attack and led to dpdr 😢
I have had a boiling hot fever for the last 48 hours. Absolutely no other symptoms and covid in January so it's just a fever and I've spiralled a few times but your videos have saved me honestly. It's so hard when you're actually ill to keep it all together. Hope everyone's well, pray for me 😂❤️
Thank you so much 🥰. Your words just helped me soo much ☺️. Bless you
I relate SO much! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Very much appreciated❤️
Your channel is helping me so much thank you ❤❤❤❤
Your videos are really helping me, thank you so much. You had the exact same symptoms I was having. Thank you for making these videos
Just found your channel thank you so much for posting videos xx
This was great! Thank you!
I’m glad that I watched this video , I come from a long line of hypochondriacs and have a clear memory of being 7 and my grandmother crying bring me to the doctor with my dad , and my uncles and aunts were always bringing the local newspaper who’s dead now what happened etc, my father would be sick ( maybe maybe not) wouldn’t get out of bed - probably stress and anxiety , my mother definitely had anxiety . Me in my twenties I’m never going to be like that , now I get bouts of depression and anxiety and it’s triggered by funerals, hearing about people dropping dead, etc im actually worrying myself sick . I’ve got a doctors appointment on Wednesday and im going ask him about when he does his checkup could he send me to a therapist as these worries flare up every few months. I actually am laughing now cos it’s a relief that these thoughts are actually making me worried so I feels sick. Mad
Thank you for sharing x
hi cherelle, ive had a health anxiety spike this past month. im interested to hear about your thoughts regarding imagining/obsessing over bodily sensations. how can we stop it? how can we stop obsessing over it?
The meningitis thing, the other day my daughter had a sandwich from the deli and when I had the other half after she went to sleep it tasted strange. In my mind, she had been poisoned and I now had to watch her all night while she slept 😭 it really is ridiculous when you hear yourself saying these things! I try to remind myself of all these times whenever a new fear pops up.
How do I cope? I’ve had 2 doctors tell me my horrible symptoms are temporary. Based on tests they’ve done they said I do not fit the profile for “permanent illness”. My symptoms are supposed to settle down within the next month or so. I am so happy that’s the case, but I am suffering from terrible anxiety that they could be wrong. I went on internet forums and it’s all doom and gloom for the symptoms I am experiencing. Many people saying they never got better, killed themselves etc. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to have these symptoms. My family is urging me to stay off the internet and trust my doctors. I am having problems having faith. I won’t believe it until I am better.
This is literally me ❤
Hi cherelle..thanks for posting such videos....I just want to ask that does cycle of health anxiety repeats??? as I have this small painless cyst on my scalp and it's just freaking me out I asked my closed ones about this and they say it's normal but I am not satisfied...pls reply
Worrying about not sleeping
Hi please could you do a video on derealisation and dissociating please because it’s been really hard for me recently with my anxiety and dr and all my thoughts about what we are and what the world actually is and I can’t seem to make myself stop thinking about it
Hey it’s exactly the same with me as well
I’ve been suffering from GAD since last 8 months and Derealisation is the worst symptom I experience. This thing never stops to take on me . Doesn’t matter I am at home or outside I don’t feel real. I feel like I am in a dream .
I suggest you to take proper rest and get ample sleep as this condition worsens with sleep deprivation. And all those thoughts in your mind just ignore them. They’re gonna subside
Cherelle I have bad health anexity I have had blood test my eyes tested but I get headaches every day and pressure and they can't find anything I feel dizzy wirh it and confused all the time hate it but I am learning its anexity but so hard to convince my Brian it is
I've had somatization disorder now for 12 years being diagnosed only 6 years ago. After hundreds of doctors appointments and multiple tests like m.r.i.s, ct scans, ultrasounds over that 12 year span, nothing has been found from these symptoms that I go through. I've tried meds, cognitive behavior therapy, acupuncture and almost everything in the book these past 6 years yet I still suffer from this debilitating disease. I applied for social security disability and got it right away as have just been crippled by this disease. Scary thing is that you don't know what's real and what's not. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last year even though I felt no symptoms for that one particular thing. It was found as I had an m.r.i. for swelling under my jaw. My shrink said to stay away from doctors while my doctor said if i'm dealing with real symptoms, i must follow up with a doctor. I feel real painful and destressing symptoms....what do I do? Any advice would be appreciated?
It is so hard not to.. I absolutely wrecked my body and it’s visible everywhere.. My skin is shit, i get all kinds of pimples, petechieen, and more. I throw up every morning, i get cramps in my fingers, pain in pretty much every joint and my armpits… It is so so hard
Can your anxiety create symptoms like muscle aches and muscle sensitivity? Basically almost like a fibromyalgia like feeling? I heard that it can.
Hey i have this plus some other symptoms, and although the symptoms arennt gone hot yoga has helped a lot. so ive noticed the stress adds to it a lot.
@@thesteak7524 funnily enough the symptoms subsided when my stress went down so it was 100% anxiety related.
@@isaiahhellems7901 nice
I don't see the fact that you have catastrophic thoughts still as a downside in terms of you coaching people tbh. That just makes you relate more to people you're helping. That's why people love Claire weekes still, decades after her death because she knew exactly what it was like. With respect to doctors and professionals that help with this issue, most of them really don't have a clue what it's like other than what a textbook has told them. It's such a complex specific ideology that you really have to have gone through it to truly understand.
I can’t stop thinking I will have cancer because I have increased my risk…….. i can’t do anything without thinking about this and i think im going to die young. I am 25
Why do you think you have it increassed? Becouse you think about it?
You're so beautiful ❤
Im in constant fear of MND 😭
Can I help you, you dont have to live with this God bless
i’ve been struggling a lot with this the past few months in particular, and even though the doctor told me my symptoms don’t require me to jump to the worst case scenario, especially at 20, it still is a struggle.
so thank you for this video, it feels like i’m finally hearing the logical part of my brain from an outside perspective (and from someone who understands exactly how it feels), and it’s really helping to reassure me 🩷