depression symptoms hypochondria

Your husband is a great guy for offering you positive ways to try and cope with this instead of telling you it's all in your head or your crazy. Give him some brownie points for that. In my humble and non-medical opinion, I would strongly suggest another visit to your doctor to discuss these new and anxiety provoking symptoms. He/she may want to refer you to a neurologist to assess the stabbing head pains and an EENT to find the cause of your sinues issue.

I have run the gamut of anxiety and depressive symptoms that come with the PTSD and can relate to your question about hypochondria also. The simplest way to explain hypochondria and me is that I felt that my whole life at one time was a complete waste, and I wanted a better life but had no idea how to get it and then became afraid that too soon I would be dead and to have never been happy....

Well, sounds just like me. I could have swore I was about to die at any moment for the past year as I thought I had everything from cancer to anything else you can think of. A lot of the hypochondria is a symptom of depression. I'm bipolar I, and when I get depression, well, I'm dying!

I'm not a professional, so please don't take my advice as gospel, but I went through a period of time where I was very fearful over my health, to the point where I imagined that I might have all sorts of disorders & diseases, like those you mentioned. At the time, I was reading about signs & symptoms of various diseases, and I would pick out one or two symptoms of just about EVERY disease out there, and I would think, oh no, maybe that is what I have!

Like the physical symptoms of anxiety/hypochondria/panic? im pregnant so i know my horomones and things are all out of control. plus ive had anxiety/panic for over 10 years im 29 years old and almost 33 weeks prego. but over the last two months here are my newer and more annoying symptoms---- --twitching (all over my body everyday, constantly) --tingling (feet, hands, and other random spots on my legs, back, etc)..

s called hypochondria and is extremely common. Most people who are prone to anxiety about their health develope this condition. You have an interesting twist to yours. After tubing on the lake, you developed headaches, which most hypochondriacs would assume was a brain tumor, but you fear you have brain parasites. Most likely you developed headaches because during your tubing time, you could have pulled a muscle or tendon in your neck, back or shoulders that would result in headaches.

It all started about 6 months ago when I got the flu really bad and took a lot of aspirin to deal with some of the symptoms. I did some research and read that you shouldn't take aspirin for the flu especially if you are under 18 because it has been linked to causing Rye's Syndrome. After I read that I started freaking out thinking I was going to get Rye's Syndrome and would constantly look up side effects online and would think I had them, even though I really didn't.

My family doctor feels that the chest pain and mild back pain and breathless sensations are not from a serious cause given the fore-mentioned tests.

It is an unfortuante truth that once a doctor sees in our medical files that we've been diagnosed with anxiety/panic/depression/hypochondria, we are stigmatized. It is horribly unfair, but most doctors can't think outside the box. I'm going to repeat my advice about seeing your GP to go over the ER records and discuss your symptoms again. I'm going to say something that may cause you to think I'm no longer on your side, but please know that isn't true.

I like lindahand's suggestion. You might also want to consider trying to find a program in mindfulness meditation. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed a program using mindfulness meditation to help folks with chronic pain and/or chronic medical illnesses to live full lives that has been very successful, and a number of hospitals offer programs modeled on his.

I suffer from Hypochondria anxiety depression etc and it isn't easy because the pains etc are there and someone who suffers from this thinks that there is a serious physical cause to the pain. I am single and live with this misery mostly myself.

Oh man, I can go on and on about what happens to me!! Let's just say I even had to see a cardiologist. I've been seeing a life coach. It's almost been two years that I've had anxiety and the night it hit, it hit hard. I would go to the ER almost every day. Just try your best to relax. Try a nice massage.

Yes, it is Hypocondria. Youth is definitely on your side and like you say, you have no indications that anything is wrong, so this fear is unwarranted. The first thing I would do is stop watching these medical shows, and get into therapy to learn why you are obcessing about your health. You will also learn how to not obcess over your health with therapy. You need to be enjoying your life...not worrying it away. I know this is easier said than done, but you can do it.

I know all the symptoms even though you can get different physiological and psychological symptoms each time which I know also exacerbates the problem because no 2 episodes are ever the same. I have gone from illness to illness, thinking I get symptoms of many different ailments therefore in my head I must have the disease.

I get so frustrated, however, when doctors want to blame it on depression or hypochondria that the form they sent surprised me a little.

Recently my doctor told me that i have Obssesive cumpulsive disorder and need to go psychiasrist istead of going to physician. my question is Hypochondria and OCD are same? There is any relation betwen hypochondria and OCD?

Hi Jackie, I would say that these nervous episodes and potential hypochondria are a result from what you have described, the hypochondria may have stemmed from you being scared of the symptoms that the anxiety has brought about. What I can say about anxiety is that it is quite remarkable because of its extraordinary list of symptoms but it all is just mental in nature, nothing physical. You say you are worried that one nervous breakdown may lead to another, and I would say both yes and no.

Hello i have hypochondria ive been anxious about anything has to do with my body .. heart cancer strokes .. u name it i saw a show for doctor was about schizophrenia since then my anxiety been the worst i think that i have it the whole time ive been forgetting alot im scared if that is a sign of it (btw i have fibromyalgia ) i mean for example yesterday my friend tried to wake me up from sleep (im a heavy sleeper ) he told me that i screamed at him when he tried to wake me up ..

t have health anxiety, life would be perfect! Anybody else experience these types of physical symptoms when having an attack? It always puts a person at ease knowing there are others like you!!!! What a horrible viscious cycle!

Hypochondria is a pain the backside, but it does pass if you take the right steps to change the cognitive part of the disorder. That's where it all begins.

When you take the Xanax do you feel any better at all? Some of your symptoms sound like possible depression too. Have you seen a Psychiatrist or was it your family Dr that diagnosed you?

when i did my original mental health screening it was abnormal for depression. i feel like my anxiety is causing me depression because i can't control it. i'm a hypochondriac.

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