Hello, everyone! I'm a 19-year-old girl, and as the title implies, my topic is hypochondria. It all started 2 years ago when I got my first panic attack. At the time, I had no idea it was a panic attack, and I began to think I was having a heart attack or almost dying. So for a few weeks I had panic attacks without knowing that they were panic attacks. I began to suggest that I was suffering from a deadly disease, and panic attacks became more frequent and even more terrible. I decided to go to the doctor, it turned out that I was fine, they prescribed me pills and recommended a psychologist. I was determined to go to a psychologist, but my mother began with her philosophies: "It's all in your head, you suggest."; "Wasted money. " ; "You have to solve the problems in your head yourself." Anyway, time passed and I started to control panic attacks and over time I stopped receiving. But you think of deadly diseases and death, I can't get them out of my head. Does he get any pain in certain parts of the body and all these thoughts about diseases from which there is no salvation begin. I already feel like going to the doctor precisely because of the fear of being told that I am suffering from something. It has happened to me because of so many fears, obsessive thoughts and worries that the cycle does not come to me for 2 months, and here it starts again with another thought about ovarian diseases or something related to my female organs. I know I'm just suggesting that these fears are the result of hypochondria, but I just can't stop thinking about my health, and I say to myself, "Maybe I think it's hypochondria, but I'm actually suffering from a disease." I really want to go to a psychologist and take treatment, but the problem is that I am a student, I do not work and I do not have enough money for treatment, and if I tell my parents they will start with their stories that I suggest that I have something. I will ask for opinion and advice from people who suffer or have been cured of hypochondria. Thanks!
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I was in the same situation, it was a long time ago when I was young. I remember that time and I laugh to myself, what a fool I was then to put such thoughts in my head. But I understand the girl very well, this condition is very unpleasant. Her mother is right, but she can't understand her daughter's head, it's not so easy to kill harmful thoughts. Wandering around doctors is inevitable, but as always useless, because there is nothing to find in a healthy body. As they say, time cures everything, it turned out that it also cures hypochondria. Along with the disease, time went on. I had specifically suggested that I had cancer, so I expected to die at any moment. While I was visiting doctors, 4-5 years passed. During that time, I read everything about cancer, I waited, I waited, time passed, and I didn't die. That's all I believed, I read that cancer kills the body in a few years, and I'm still alive !? Then I suggested to myself that the doctors were right, they could not find anything pathological, and after surviving for more than 5 years, I gave up waiting for the disease. I threw away all sorts of readings about diseases, stopped all sorts of drugs and started helping my body, stopped harassing it with bad thoughts. Only walks in nature, light jogging in the morning and a full meal, that's enough to start, then everything is arranged. Author, in time you will remember this period with a smile, but now it is difficult, I know! I don't know what drugs you were prescribed, but if you try Deanxit, it will probably help you, save me! I stopped all drugs and started helping my body, I stopped harassing it with bad thoughts. Only walks in nature, light jogging in the morning and a full meal, that's enough to start, then everything is arranged. Author, in time you will remember this period with a smile, but now it is difficult, I know! I don't know what drugs you were prescribed, but if you try Deanxit, it will probably help you, save me! I stopped all drugs and started helping my body, I stopped harassing it with bad thoughts. Only walks in nature, light jogging in the morning and a full meal, that's enough to start, then everything is arranged. Author, in time you will remember this period with a smile, but now it is difficult, I know! I don't know what drugs you were prescribed, but if you try Deanxit, it will probably help you, save me!
When you don't have enough money, get to work is that complicated
Hmmm, it's best not to underestimate your situation. In principle, a mature person can deal with this panic on his own, if he hits the right path. However, it is good to have someone to tell you the right things. They are not given money to yours. Otherwise, I don't see why they should stop you from going for 1-2 consultations. And what is the money for if not for health and happiness. Is a new TV more important or a new phone? I would only go naked if I were healthy. :) for health I do not save.
Does hypochondria go away with time? 4-5 years? Do you know how many suicides there are as a result of severe hypochondria? Waiting to die at any moment? Bullshit. Look, I was in that situation. It was quite serious, I went to the doctors every day, I waited to die. I waited for the time to heal me. So the hypochondria turned into anxiety, then into panic attacks, then into a phobia of touching anything, then into an obsessive compulsive disorder expressed in a mania for purity. I read a book "The Subconscious Does Everything" by John Kehoe, I highly recommend it. I can say that after that I was almost cured, until 2 years passed and the hypochondria did not reappear from anywhere. Go to a psychologist, even once. When you hear from an authoritative figure in front of you that you have nothing, you will probably calm down. And don't read in google.