Overthinking and living in fear

I have these issues too. I wasn’t so much of a worrier until I developed chronic health issues related to Covid. This last year and a half has been very hard for me because no one understands the virus, or knows what it will do. Now I live in fear. I read someplace that just because you think something, does not make it true. Sometimes reminding myself of that helps. Deep breathing, and postponing worries has helped me too. At night I will deep breathe, and tell myself to let a thought go, because right NOW there’s not a thing I can do. I’ll think of it tomorrow. Sometimes that helps.
I also cannot sleep in the morning because the worry and fear starts as soon as I awake.
I hate it.

I so understand. I, too, have suffered long Covid symptoms. I have gone to doctor after doctor. No one can help. One doctor refers me to another and then back again. Do you take any anti-anxiety medication?

@desidawn and the others whom have responded….

I’m going to share some of my personal story in order to really help you get out of the place of worry.

I was a 100% healthy and young at 37 yrs old. I did not know what anxiety was/meant or how it expressed itself in the body.

I made a simple doctor appt for a simple thing that I shouldn’t have.
This doctor ran tests that I didn’t need, prescribed meds that I did not need and caused harm based off of giving me a catastrophic presentation of what “could be” a problem. This cycle of worry that was created in the environment of medical doctors that are meant to be of service and help, caused me harm which I have now been taking care of since that doctor visit.

I can tell you from start to finish this was all based off of “worry”. I made an initial appointment based off “small worry”. The doctor I met with, rather than calm my unnecessary worry, perpetuated it and kept me in a repeating cycle that grew. While I was in the middle of it, all I was focused on was my health, so I had the inability to feel that it was my worrying causing me additional symptoms.

What I have now learned is that worrying can literally make you sick. It is the brains way of thinking it is keeping us safe. And it is not. Every thought becomes a feeling.

If you can meet with someone whom can explain this to you in person and start to get you on the path of new healthy thought patterns, you will realize it.

I only came to this forum after this bad encounter with a medical doctor and western medicine. And all started by one worried thought that would’ve been nothing had I not acted on it.

So please get out, get fresh air, look at nature and how beautiful it is. Seek out things that make you laugh. Create something. Draw something.

Health forums can be a place of reassurance to not feel alone, but they can also cross over into a place of worry perpetuating worry.

Don’t stay too long on a health forum. Get out and live!!!!

I so understand. I, too, have suffered long Covid symptoms. I have gone to doctor after doctor. No one can help. One doctor refers me to another and then back again. Do you take any anti-anxiety medication?

Thank you. I am sick and sometimes I feel dismissed that it is all “emotional and in my head”. No, not true.

However, I do agree with you that obsessing only makes everything worse. I am planning to see a phycologist. In my area it is hard to get an appointment.

I so understand. I, too, have suffered long Covid symptoms. I have gone to doctor after doctor. No one can help. One doctor refers me to another and then back again. Do you take any anti-anxiety medication?

I do not take anxiety medication as I feel like it worsens my anxiety. But that is just me.
And I’ve lost trust in most doctors and their judgment so don’t really trust them to rx me any medication

I do not take anxiety medication as I feel like it worsens my anxiety. But that is just me.
And I’ve lost trust in most doctors and their judgment so don’t really trust them to rx me any medication

@desidawn and the others whom have responded….

I’m going to share some of my personal story in order to really help you get out of the place of worry.

I was a 100% healthy and young at 37 yrs old. I did not know what anxiety was/meant or how it expressed itself in the body.

I made a simple doctor appt for a simple thing that I shouldn’t have.
This doctor ran tests that I didn’t need, prescribed meds that I did not need and caused harm based off of giving me a catastrophic presentation of what “could be” a problem. This cycle of worry that was created in the environment of medical doctors that are meant to be of service and help, caused me harm which I have now been taking care of since that doctor visit.

I can tell you from start to finish this was all based off of “worry”. I made an initial appointment based off “small worry”. The doctor I met with, rather than calm my unnecessary worry, perpetuated it and kept me in a repeating cycle that grew. While I was in the middle of it, all I was focused on was my health, so I had the inability to feel that it was my worrying causing me additional symptoms.

What I have now learned is that worrying can literally make you sick. It is the brains way of thinking it is keeping us safe. And it is not. Every thought becomes a feeling.

If you can meet with someone whom can explain this to you in person and start to get you on the path of new healthy thought patterns, you will realize it.

I only came to this forum after this bad encounter with a medical doctor and western medicine. And all started by one worried thought that would’ve been nothing had I not acted on it.

So please get out, get fresh air, look at nature and how beautiful it is. Seek out things that make you laugh. Create something. Draw something.

Health forums can be a place of reassurance to not feel alone, but they can also cross over into a place of worry perpetuating worry.

Don’t stay too long on a health forum. Get out and live!!!!