Health anxiety

kiddie
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:42:25 +0000

I can totally understand this. Whenever I google health issues, it makes me anxious. The reddits are particularly bad - if you believe what you read on these sites you would think that nobody has ever gotten healthy and no doctor has ever been correct.

I have had bad years where I was anxious due to family members’ health issues. It is especially hard with a child not living at home where you don’t see them on a daily basis to really judge their condition.

Things that have helped are venting (like here on CC), talking to friends who are nurses (they have a good perspective), doing the usual calming things (yoga, etc.), and keeping the other things in my life simple. (I once quit a part-time job when the stress of family health issues and some other things were getting to me - today I think my stress level would go up if I didn’t have a job).

Menopause is no fun either and probably adds to the stress. No advice there, except to say that for me at least - the hot flashes eventually stopped!