I thought i was alone, weak, sick, wrong or something like that... Now i see, im not alone, im not wrong or sick! There are so many people like me! My heart is with you guys!
I needed to hear these words. I am trying to live as healthy as possible, which is certainly not bad per se, but I also think that by doing so I unconciously tell myself that I can only be okay (not get a heart attack, not have spiking high blood pressure readings, blood sugar imbalances, etc.) if conditions X, Y, Z etc. apply. And by always trying to adhere to these rules, I create a misable life full of anxiety (even if sometimes barely noticeable) for myself. So, thank you again for your words and your work!
This is a FOUNDATIONAL question I was thinking about. I'm so GRATEFUL your client asked that question, and that you shared your thoughts on it. Thank you so much.
Really wise words. Its refreshing to hear someone actually provide a solution in the form of acceptance and valuing your peace! Its also a great comfort to know otgers have been going through the same thing! Thanks Cherelle!
Thank you so much for this! It's inspiring to know that you have "been there" and are now helping others through it. Now, how do you address someone with health anxiety AND a fear of doctors/medical procedures?
what should I do if we convinced that our current symptom is not serious, nevertheless it still doesn't go away? I'm sure it's psychological and I'm not so anxious but still symptom is here.
Sitting with the uncomfortably is not pleasant however necessary, when battling health anxiety something I need to work on. Meditation is on Heath anxiety from the anxiety guy is the best it’s positive affirmations, such as the feelings in my body are normal And and I fully accept them the great video great work
I think things are getting worse for me, the last few days have been horrible. With the feelings I've been getting I just can't believe that it's just anxiety and to make it worse I just can't sleep because it's so uncomfortable, either that or it seems to wait until I close my eyes to try to sleep before it starts.
Mines getting bad too, i he my first migraine aura last month and since then I’ve been a mess. My eyes have been checked and everything, I had another one yesterday because of being so anxious of it happening it happened. Could of been just my anxiety or I literally caused another migraine to happen. Either way it’s a nightmare
Thanks, Cherelle ❤. I needed to hear this today. I know it but needed to hear it. We trade quality of life in fear we may lose quantity if we don’t sacrifice our peace. We don’t stop to really think about what sort of life we are creating for ourselves in the process. I would rather live a few peaceful years than a lifetime of incessant suffering my HA causes my family and I. All that can’t be good for our long term physical health as well.
Could you please send me a link so I can sign up for the 6 pack please. And thank you for all your help. Just watching all of your videos has drastically changed my life and perspective of health anxiety. But your 6 pack could really help me to get actually healing from health anxiety. Thank you so much
I have muscle twitching all over my body and it's getting worse, I did emg , brain mri, csf tests and everything was normal but I still develop the symptoms I think it's ALS how can I feel comfortable 😢 I'm really terrified 😢😢
@@user-js4nu1vb8k it’s probably not ALS. By now these tests would have probably identified it. The odds are so incredibly low at this point for you. It took me sometime but I was able to break from the thought of ALS. Try and accept that whatever is wrong it shouldn’t stop you from living life. Take it as you can but go live. That’s how i broke it. I just said even if i have ALS im going to see my friend or go out for a walk. Try to make use of your time. Just remember that time is running no matter what. So try and enjoy it no matter the circumstances.
The irony is that hand washing is one of my health anxiety/OCD compulsions, to the point where currently my hands are the driest skin wise as they have ever been(to the point of cracked skin on hands and bleeding from cracks on my hands) the irony is that I was doing the handwashing because I thought it would reduce me getting sick and having to go into hospital(I had a distressing/upsetting incident where I had to go to hospital for surgery for self harm when I was younger) and now im terrified that I'm going to get sepsis if bacteria gets into the cracks on my hands etc. Idk what to do because I've been told so many times that I'm being irrational/overly paranoid about my physical health but I really do genuinely feel like I am going to get genuinely seriously ill(to the point of having to go into hospital again)
My health anxiety started after I was left with cauda equina last year. Weeks and weeks in angony with my back then neurological symptoms started. I was diagnosed with M.E the year before and because it's such a complex disease that nobody believes it's made me question everything. My back pain was put down to my M.E. I was sent for an MRI eventually when my right leg went numb and I couldn't feel my foot. The MRI was done eventually when I got a cancellation. The diagnosed cauda equina and failed to tell me or send me urgently to a specialist, my results were put on the top of the file as routine. 2 weeks later I became incontinent and was rushed to A&E to be told I needed urgent surgery and my MRI showed Cauda equina. It's very rare, so after 3 weeks of slowly recovering I then got it again, again they didn't believe me, had another MRI to confirm it and another emergency surgery. My surgery was July last year. March this year I started with severe muscle twitching in my right leg, and then all over my body (constantly in my right leg) I then got a severe cramp which took hours to subside. (Same right leg which was effected with the cauda equina) the calf still feels tight even now and I've had many cramps since, and in my left arm. No weakness but loss of balance, constantly dropping things and losing words mid conversation. We're now in July and the twitching is 24/7 all over my body but remains a constant in that right leg. I know I have some permanent nerve damage due to the cauda equina (it's a spinal cord injury) I'm really struggling, I've convinced myself I have ALS. Being left with the cauda equina and not believed with the M.E has driven this health anxiety. I've lost months of my life researching Als 😥 having M.E means I have a medical overactive nervous system plus I have ADHD. I keep telling myself I have no weakness and this is either neuropathy from the back problems and damaged nerves or I'm losing my mind!
I developed pvcs during my second pregnancy, but I was also becoming anxious because of Covid at the time. I had more traumas with the delivery and I started developing symptoms instantly after that. Eventually down the road the pvcs got worse after I had accepted them and it threw me for a loop. Now I’m questioning if the pvcs are even anxiety induced but they come and go. They can be pretty much gone for months and then hit really bad when I don’t feel specifically anxious
Hello! I've greatly benefitted from your calm demeaner and common sense approach to my HA. I tried to join your patrion account, but I don't see a link to join. It just shows your profile, I can't seem to figure it out! Help!
Yep....when you feel threatened in anyway or form(a little stress is enough..like going out of the house to buy groceries)...you'd feel dizziness..but you should continue to do things anyway..that's the only cure.... Do you feel tingling sensations in the feet or stomach pain?
I’ve had a horrible panic attack 3 months ago, it triggered horrible dizziness for me for the next 2 months.. I eventually found out about a condition called PPPD and suddenly everything started to make sense. Started self therapy with simple exercises i found on TH-cam and it made things a lot better.
I think so-called long covid is anxiety (a sensitized nervous system). I went down that rabbit hole and started visiting forums which was a huge mistake. I'd read about a symptom then it would appear a short time later. The solution was to get off the forums (which were scaring me to death), stop googling, and just let my nervous system calm down. Obviously one should get things ruled out by a doctor but most of the people on the long covid forums (including me) have had multiple doctor visits only to be told there's nothing wrong with us. Interestingly, a recent paper came out showing that 30% of "long haulers" had no positive covid test nor positive antibody test yet they still had "long covid."
@@tomsale5142 I used to. I watched a TH-cam series about cfs and the guy talked about how so many had symptoms imorove when they went on holiday, attributing it to.magnetoc waves or mold or whatever, anything but what it actually is: the brain and a terrified nervous system. Those people are even bigger hypochondriacs than the long covid crowd lol
Can You Pls Help me. I am just 20 years old, And I am having Anxiety for exams for 1 month and now I have Bowel problem, Is it normal in anxiety?? But I couldn't resist myself from thinking about different things. Although From Last Year also I had a different symptom and that eventually come out to be nothing but Dehydration. Pls Answer 😔😔
I'm very dubious about these videos. In my personal experience from having a close friend who was bullied by the medical profession into acknowledging that they had health anxiety, when in fact, it transpired that they had a previous medical diagnosis of a very serious inner ear disease. Regardless of this established diagnosis, they were told that their anxiety made their symptoms worse. While accepting some truth in this, his world renowned otologist told him that his anxiety played a very minor part in his physical symptoms: the physical symptoms were causing his anxiety not visa-versa! The doctors and psychiatrist he saw gaslighted him and he eventually ended up suffering from depression over the whole thing. Thankfully, he took the case to court, and medical negligence was established. So, be ultra careful regarding the lazy diagnosis of health anxiety if you genuinely feel there is something wrong with you. How many times have people been labelled "anxious" when there is a root physical cause? I have very little confidence in the medical profession.
I feel exactly the same as you after waiting 5 years for my M.E diagnosis then left last year with Cauda equina (a rare spinal cord injury) I have now developed twitching and other neurological symptoms but I have no clue if it's health anxiety of being gaslit from the medical profession or if it's something to actually worry about 😢😢
I hear what you’re saying I am, but my big thing is the anxiety and it triggers me thinking that I have some thing and I’ve been checked out but now I’m thinking is anxiety caused by an auto immune infection or something like that response I mean your mind goes all over the place It’s just crazy that’s exactly what I was thinking about yesterday. How do you let go and realize that you’ve been checked out and things are going good and you’re healthy and yet the anxiety tells you that you got some thing else I could be something this or that I am shall I hope you see this and give me a comment back. thank you.
@@cherellethinks same difference, you are young, is the point , no reason to be anxious about your health at that young age unless you have prior health issues.
I take the Trey Jones method towards my symptoms, mostly chest pain my worst symptom. I just say “Well, that was my fifth heart attack today”.
So basically just a form of acceptance, right?
Letting go is being in control.... wow that was powerful.
I thought i was alone, weak, sick, wrong or something like that... Now i see, im not alone, im not wrong or sick! There are so many people like me! My heart is with you guys!
I needed to hear these words. I am trying to live as healthy as possible, which is certainly not bad per se, but I also think that by doing so I unconciously tell myself that I can only be okay (not get a heart attack, not have spiking high blood pressure readings, blood sugar imbalances, etc.) if conditions X, Y, Z etc. apply. And by always trying to adhere to these rules, I create a misable life full of anxiety (even if sometimes barely noticeable) for myself. So, thank you again for your words and your work!
I have watched you since 2020 and it’s been amazing to watch your growth and newfound confidence, from being a HA victim to now a coach. Badass 🎉
This is a FOUNDATIONAL question I was thinking about. I'm so GRATEFUL your client asked that question, and that you shared your thoughts on it. Thank you so much.
Really wise words. Its refreshing to hear someone actually provide a solution in the form of acceptance and valuing your peace! Its also a great comfort to know otgers have been going through the same thing! Thanks Cherelle!
Thank you so much for this! It's inspiring to know that you have "been there" and are now helping others through it. Now, how do you address someone with health anxiety AND a fear of doctors/medical procedures?
what should I do if we convinced that our current symptom is not serious, nevertheless it still doesn't go away? I'm sure it's psychological and I'm not so anxious but still symptom is here.
Sitting with the uncomfortably is not pleasant however necessary, when battling health anxiety something I need to work on. Meditation is on Heath anxiety from the anxiety guy is the best it’s positive affirmations, such as the feelings in my body are normal And and I fully accept them the great video great work
Thank you for this quick helpful video, eye opener for us anxiety warriors 💪🏼🙏😊
Excellent explanation…and so true.
Thank you really needed to here this today ❤
I LOVE THIS VIDEO - i felt the same. felt like i couldnt trust my bodies signals if was giving me
I think things are getting worse for me, the last few days have been horrible. With the feelings I've been getting I just can't believe that it's just anxiety and to make it worse I just can't sleep because it's so uncomfortable, either that or it seems to wait until I close my eyes to try to sleep before it starts.
Mines getting bad too, i he my first migraine aura last month and since then I’ve been a mess. My eyes have been checked and everything, I had another one yesterday because of being so anxious of it happening it happened. Could of been just my anxiety or I literally caused another migraine to happen. Either way it’s a nightmare
how are you doing now?
what do u feel
Thanks, Cherelle ❤. I needed to hear this today. I know it but needed to hear it. We trade quality of life in fear we may lose quantity if we don’t sacrifice our peace. We don’t stop to really think about what sort of life we are creating for ourselves in the process. I would rather live a few peaceful years than a lifetime of incessant suffering my HA causes my family and I. All that can’t be good for our long term physical health as well.
Could you please send me a link so I can sign up for the 6 pack please. And thank you for all your help. Just watching all of your videos has drastically changed my life and perspective of health anxiety. But your 6 pack could really help me to get actually healing from health anxiety. Thank you so much
Needed this tonight
Thanks for this, been driving myself insane with thoughts of having ALS but I know its Anxiety.
I have muscle twitching all over my body and it's getting worse, I did emg , brain mri, csf tests and everything was normal but I still develop the symptoms I think it's ALS how can I feel comfortable 😢 I'm really terrified 😢😢
@@user-js4nu1vb8k it’s probably not ALS. By now these tests would have probably identified it. The odds are so incredibly low at this point for you. It took me sometime but I was able to break from the thought of ALS. Try and accept that whatever is wrong it shouldn’t stop you from living life. Take it as you can but go live. That’s how i broke it. I just said even if i have ALS im going to see my friend or go out for a walk. Try to make use of your time. Just remember that time is running no matter what. So try and enjoy it no matter the circumstances.
The irony is that hand washing is one of my health anxiety/OCD compulsions, to the point where currently my hands are the driest skin wise as they have ever been(to the point of cracked skin on hands and bleeding from cracks on my hands) the irony is that I was doing the handwashing because I thought it would reduce me getting sick and having to go into hospital(I had a distressing/upsetting incident where I had to go to hospital for surgery for self harm when I was younger) and now im terrified that I'm going to get sepsis if bacteria gets into the cracks on my hands etc. Idk what to do because I've been told so many times that I'm being irrational/overly paranoid about my physical health but I really do genuinely feel like I am going to get genuinely seriously ill(to the point of having to go into hospital again)
I hope your hands are feeling better and you are too x
My health anxiety started after I was left with cauda equina last year. Weeks and weeks in angony with my back then neurological symptoms started. I was diagnosed with M.E the year before and because it's such a complex disease that nobody believes it's made me question everything. My back pain was put down to my M.E. I was sent for an MRI eventually when my right leg went numb and I couldn't feel my foot. The MRI was done eventually when I got a cancellation. The diagnosed cauda equina and failed to tell me or send me urgently to a specialist, my results were put on the top of the file as routine. 2 weeks later I became incontinent and was rushed to A&E to be told I needed urgent surgery and my MRI showed Cauda equina. It's very rare, so after 3 weeks of slowly recovering I then got it again, again they didn't believe me, had another MRI to confirm it and another emergency surgery. My surgery was July last year. March this year I started with severe muscle twitching in my right leg, and then all over my body (constantly in my right leg) I then got a severe cramp which took hours to subside. (Same right leg which was effected with the cauda equina) the calf still feels tight even now and I've had many cramps since, and in my left arm. No weakness but loss of balance, constantly dropping things and losing words mid conversation. We're now in July and the twitching is 24/7 all over my body but remains a constant in that right leg. I know I have some permanent nerve damage due to the cauda equina (it's a spinal cord injury) I'm really struggling, I've convinced myself I have ALS. Being left with the cauda equina and not believed with the M.E has driven this health anxiety. I've lost months of my life researching Als 😥 having M.E means I have a medical overactive nervous system plus I have ADHD. I keep telling myself I have no weakness and this is either neuropathy from the back problems and damaged nerves or I'm losing my mind!
I developed pvcs during my second pregnancy, but I was also becoming anxious because of Covid at the time. I had more traumas with the delivery and I started developing symptoms instantly after that. Eventually down the road the pvcs got worse after I had accepted them and it threw me for a loop. Now I’m questioning if the pvcs are even anxiety induced but they come and go. They can be pretty much gone for months and then hit really bad when I don’t feel specifically anxious
Watch some videos by Sanjay Gupta. He's a cardiologist and talks about pvcs. He can help put your mind at ease
Hello! I've greatly benefitted from your calm demeaner and common sense approach to my HA. I tried to join your patrion account, but I don't see a link to join. It just shows your profile, I can't seem to figure it out! Help!
Hello !
Can I ask can you be dizziness every day ? If you suffer from anxiety.?
Yep....when you feel threatened in anyway or form(a little stress is enough..like going out of the house to buy groceries)...you'd feel dizziness..but you should continue to do things anyway..that's the only cure....
Do you feel tingling sensations in the feet or stomach pain?
I’ve had a horrible panic attack 3 months ago, it triggered horrible dizziness for me for the next 2 months.. I eventually found out about a condition called PPPD and suddenly everything started to make sense. Started self therapy with simple exercises i found on TH-cam and it made things a lot better.
I think so-called long covid is anxiety (a sensitized nervous system). I went down that rabbit hole and started visiting forums which was a huge mistake. I'd read about a symptom then it would appear a short time later. The solution was to get off the forums (which were scaring me to death), stop googling, and just let my nervous system calm down. Obviously one should get things ruled out by a doctor but most of the people on the long covid forums (including me) have had multiple doctor visits only to be told there's nothing wrong with us. Interestingly, a recent paper came out showing that 30% of "long haulers" had no positive covid test nor positive antibody test yet they still had "long covid."
Long covid is me yes can be subconscious anxiety I have lot of muscle pains 24/7 do you
@@tomsale5142 I used to. I watched a TH-cam series about cfs and the guy talked about how so many had symptoms imorove when they went on holiday, attributing it to.magnetoc waves or mold or whatever, anything but what it actually is: the brain and a terrified nervous system. Those people are even bigger hypochondriacs than the long covid crowd lol
Long COVID is one of my fears,I have so many symptoms
Sometimes it's still hard to tell 😥
Can You Pls Help me. I am just 20 years old, And I am having Anxiety for exams for 1 month and now I have Bowel problem, Is it normal in anxiety?? But I couldn't resist myself from thinking about different things. Although From Last Year also I had a different symptom and that eventually come out to be nothing but Dehydration. Pls Answer 😔😔
what symptoms do u have
Bowel problems could be IBS from stress but go to the dr if it’s really bad
I'm very dubious about these videos. In my personal experience from having a close friend who was bullied by the medical profession into acknowledging that they had health anxiety, when in fact, it transpired that they had a previous medical diagnosis of a very serious inner ear disease. Regardless of this established diagnosis, they were told that their anxiety made their symptoms worse. While accepting some truth in this, his world renowned otologist told him that his anxiety played a very minor part in his physical symptoms: the physical symptoms were causing his anxiety not visa-versa! The doctors and psychiatrist he saw gaslighted him and he eventually ended up suffering from depression over the whole thing. Thankfully, he took the case to court, and medical negligence was established. So, be ultra careful regarding the lazy diagnosis of health anxiety if you genuinely feel there is something wrong with you. How many times have people been labelled "anxious" when there is a root physical cause? I have very little confidence in the medical profession.
I feel exactly the same as you after waiting 5 years for my M.E diagnosis then left last year with Cauda equina (a rare spinal cord injury) I have now developed twitching and other neurological symptoms but I have no clue if it's health anxiety of being gaslit from the medical profession or if it's something to actually worry about 😢😢
I hear what you’re saying I am, but my big thing is the anxiety and it triggers me thinking that I have some thing and I’ve been checked out but now I’m thinking is anxiety caused by an auto immune infection or something like that response I mean your mind goes all over the place It’s just crazy that’s exactly what I was thinking about yesterday. How do you let go and realize that you’ve been checked out and things are going good and you’re healthy and yet the anxiety tells you that you got some thing else I could be something this or that I am shall I hope you see this and give me a comment back. thank you.
Anyone have joints pain and clicking sound in joints because of anxiety??
Yes all the time but it’s been getting better.. but we’ll get through this🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@zayst7004 please explain your joint symptoms. Do u have joint pain with clicking sound in multiple joints??
Are you any better
@@tomsale5142 nope. What is your current symptoms???
@@arumugam-ok2lb same pains in muscles upper back armpits fatigue heal pain from rest but couple mins where are your pain s now changed diet?
Well you are about 20 years old so it’s nothing…..
No, I’m 30 :) but age doesn’t matter when it comes to health anxiety.
@@cherellethinks same difference, you are young, is the point , no reason to be anxious about your health at that young age unless you have prior health issues.
@@RodSherwood1 Then why on Earth are you even here?
@@cherellethinks because it’s a free and open comment section. If my comment triggers you ignore it.
@@RodSherwood1Why are you here if you’re so ignorant of about what anxiety is?