I'm a rollercoaster....when will it stop!

[Aussiemum]

Hello everybody,

Havent been here for a while. Last time I posted I was looking at futher treatment to help with my HYPOCHONDRIA!!

I have been refered to a psyhiatrist, I am scared but I need help.

I have good and bad days. i will go for weeks feeling great and happy then all of a sudden I am down and feeling sick. I am neauses alot and suffer from stomach pains. All due to me worring about dying.

Some people on here must think I am crazy and I just maybe.. I am really friendly and liked by so many people in my community. Nobody knows that I am suffering inside and how sad and confused I really am.

I have always worried about dying and my health but never thought it would turn into a full time job!!:(
It would be so nice to hear from any other people out there who have this?
Ok well thats it for today.
Aussiemum!:cool:

[minxy]

hello annmaree, its nice to have u back here after a long break , well read ur thread , it looks u have gone through great pain during this period and currently u are on treatment , i would say u to stay positive and best of luck and keep on updating abt ur health .

take care and keep smile,

warm regards,
minxy.

[Mesandy]

hi annmaree, its been long since seen u outhere and u said that u have been in great pain and u are on treatment currently , i can say that be positive and any help pls tell us we would try our best to help u , anyways keep telling us abt ur health .

take care ,
mesandy:) .

[Aussiemum]

Hi Minxy & Mesandy, thanks guys for your support!
i havent been to see the psychiatryst as yet, I am booked in and waiting.
she may put me on medication and now I am not so worried about that.
I am not doing the best off medication so maybe going on it will help.

Having a journal does help....it allows me to express my fear. Its great to go back and read it.

I seem to be having a breakdown once a week....I will just cry and cry and tell my husband that i cant handle these thoughts anymore.
Its hard for my Husband, but he is so supportive. :)

I think having this emotional release is good for me but I know its not normal so thats when I think maybe medication??

Thaks again,
AnnMaree

[Titch]

Hi AnnMaree,

I'm new to this site... Your post is one of the first that caught my eye, seeing that it was under the hyperchondria title.
Over the past few months I have been developing a serious phobia of cancer - I guess this is a fear which is more specific than general hyperchondria, though I'm not sure exactly of your story.
I'm a twenty five year old woman who tries 'not to worry' but finds myself constantly living in fear.
It's really interesting to get online and see that others have the same type of fears which plague them day in day out, as I have been finding with the carcinophobia. It's amazing the sense of relief I feel just seeing that others are writing about their anxieties also. Perhaps this is the first step I have really taken in acknowledging that I have an actual phobia which is really messing me up I feel.
I wish you all the best, as I too experience the daily onset of negative thinking, worrying all the time about a moment where I might find a lump or something, of course it's nothing but a possibility, yet somehow it's become an obsession.
I live in Australia too, and I just thought I'd introduce myself. Good luck!