IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, I won’t be responding to Instagram messages anymore. I hope you guys understand. It’s not an easy thing for me to have to say. Back when I first started my channel I had very little subscribers so this was something I could do easily but now as my channel has grown and that I’m a mother to two very young children, it’s impossible for me to respond to everyone. I currently have 92 unread messages in my inbox and that’s only from last week. I’ve also been getting a lot of rude and hurtful messages of people saying that I’m fake because I’m not responding or sending me message after message demanding for my attention. It’s been getting me so down and people have said some horrible things. I know how it feels when you’re desperate. Truly, I do. I’ve been there and it’s sucks. But please remember I am just one person. A lot of people are also asking me for medical advice but please remember I am not a doctor. I’m just like you. If you want to get in touch, I offer health anxiety talking sessions which you can book here - cherellethinks.setmore.com I also have a health anxiety support page on Facebook that I interact with a lot. Just type in ‘Health Anxiety Community’ and you should find it. Lastly, I also do regular Q&A’s on my Instagram too where I can answer any questions people may have. I hope you understand and it’s never my intention to upset anyone. There just isn’t enough hours in the day. Thanks so much. X
Do you ever get in the mornings crazy thoughts like doom feeling, heart attack, stroke or something bad going to happen even you are good health? But still battling this with no meds.
My top three irrational thoughts are that I have some rare insane cancer like elbow cancer, I’m having a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage and recently that I have lymphoma. Oh! Also that I have undiagnosed MS! It’s gotten to the point where I’m scared to sleep at night because I’m afraid I won’t wake up 😔 I just get so filled with terror around bedtime but these videos have really been helping me sort through my thoughts. It’s hard being so scared all the time especially when then this is a *completely* unfamiliar feeling to me (it only started about two months ago). Thank you for making these Cherelle!!
I get this thought all the time, even when I get reassurance from a Doctor I still don’t believe them, even though they are Doctors and know what they’re doing I still doubt it a lot obviously because it’s my body I feel it physically and no one else can it’s terrible
I know exactly how you’re feeling because I’m currently experiencing the same thing.. I feel like the doctors just telling me what I want to hear or maybe made a mistake. I know it sounds crazy but once you’re mind process something as bad then that’s it
tysm im suffering so much from health anxiety right now, it all started from stomach pain... had a colonoscopy thinking i had stomach cancer ... im 22 btw... then after it came out negative i continue to freak out and having new symptoms now... its driving me crazy... these symptoms seem soooo reall... im so sad now 😔 this is crazy thank you so much for your videos they help me out alot
Jorge I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this worry. It sucks when we get good results and should be reassured but we still can’t relax.I think it’s why some people find it to hard to understand health anxiety. Anxiety can do some absolutely crazy things to our body, especially our digestive systems! I hope you feel better soon. X
Your videos help so much. It makes me feel sane bc I’m the only person that I personally know that’s is dealt with health anxiety. At the moment my irrational thoughts are that I have stomach cancer or colon cancer. I’m obsessing over my bowel movements and I’m pretty sure there blood in my stool. I have a lot of pressure and pain in my colon and I’m thinking that’s it’s a tumor that growing in there. If not that then the cancer tumor is in my stomach somewhere.
ive convinced myself that I have some sort of cancer that the doctors missed and that i'm not going to get diagnosed until it spreads and i'll die young. i have these weird pains in my hands and legs that go away when i'm not worrying about them but i've convinced myself that it's still something serious. i dont know if this happens to anyone else but i always get this thought that maybe i'm anxious because there is something genuinely wrong and my body is trying to tell me something. also, thank you so much for your videos they reassure me more that anything and help so so much!!
Thanks cherelle for a great video,really needed this now.Dont have health anxiety but do suffer from anxiety and irrational thoughts are so convincing.
This videos help me so muuuch! Just knowing I’m not the only one who has these irrational thoughts. Also, I don’t know why I’ve told myself it will be hard for me to be a mother because of my health anxiety & anxiety in general, and seeing you really has changed my mentality on that!
Dont worry Cherelle keep making your vids, you are an amazing person for just living with your condition but raising a child aswell, you light up my day and you will inspire many more to come 👍x
I have several things I think I have but one of them right now is I think I’m developing dementia or psychosis. I keep trying to question myself and ask myself things like when is my birthday or my child’s birthday or any fact about my life to make sure I can remember. I always can but I keep thinking what if I can’t tomorrow or in an hour. I’m suffering from DPDR and I think that is why I feel like I’m getting this. Also the fear of cancer due to loss of appetite, weight loss, and stomach issues. And ALS for muscle twitching and cramps.
Sarah Trail I’m so sorry to hear this Sarah. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate! I’ve gone through the whole scenario of convincing myself I’m getting early onset Alzheimer’s or psychosis. I even convinced myself that I was seeing flashing lights coming from the TV and hearing things that weren’t there so I was 100% convinced I was developing schizophrenia. But it was all anxiety! Same with the muscle twitching, I’ve also been down that awful rabbit hole of being utterly convinced of ALS. It’s bloody exhausting isn’t it! :(
Hey Sarah I use to have the exact same thoughts as you, it really sucks. I did had thoughts that I am developing dementia and same as you I keep asking myself do I remember this or remember that. It does go away though hang in there. At the moment I’m having weird feeling and thoughts of “what am I doing here “ “ is this real “ is this really my house “ is weird… scary
I can TOTALLY relate with everything you said.. First off, I too have definitely went through the fear of thinking I had early onset dementia!!! It’s so crazy but also fascinating how you can think your the only person dealing and responding to issues a certain way then realize others are doing the same!! I would also quiz myself by asking myself certain questions that I knew I should know without hesitation and would become scared out of my mind when I couldn’t remember some of the questions or at least not remember fast as I thought I should.. Once I got over that cancer scares took over… I swear it’s never ending and extremely hard to deal with!! Just know you’re not alone!!!!
Hey, i've already asked this on the muscle twitching video but i'm driving myself crazy with irrational thoughts now, I've now had pain in both my legs twitching in arms and legs and face and still get it in my legs here and there. Now i've got what feels like a tired right arm and feelings like ny hand twitches when i'm texting or whatever (convinced that's the horrible disease attacking my arms and hands now) i just wanted to know what it was that convinced you after a few months that you didn't have als. It's been since march now and every day is absolute torture :(
Irrational thoughts. 1) I’m going to die young I’m 46 and will not see my daughters grow up. 2) I will get something awful like ALS or cancer. 3) That I can’t breath and will need an oxygen mask. 4) that I have gives myself COPD through smoking. There you go and thanks.
ah i've had a few over the years. liver cancer when i was younger, obviously wasn't. brain cancer when i actually was undiagnosed with anxiety. and lately its mouth/throat/oesophagus cancer. this last one is bad as its gave me Globus. which if you haven't had, is so horrible. it's fading off now but I've had it for nearly a week. stupid brain! thanks once again for another amazing video.
i suffer from the same irrational thought every day, which is im scared im going to have a heart attack. im 20 years old i know the probability of that is slim but i cant let it go. i have a pain in my jaw? heart attack symptom. i have pain in my neck/shoulder/arm? heart attack symptom. pain in my chest? heart attack symptom. but fact is, its been 7 years its not and i cant grasp that, its so tiring to know youre okay but still freak out. 😫
Hope Hernandez Oh I’m sorry to hear this. I’ve been there and it’s terrible. I’m 26 and I went to my doctor because I had daily palpitations, chest pain and pain all down my left arm along with feeling dizzy and the doctor basically laughed at me. I demanded to be referred to cardiology because I was utterly convinced and nothing was wrong apart from some innocent ectopic beats. I honestly thing I imagined the arm pain because I had read it was a symptom of a heart attack. The mind is brutal!
Cherelle Thinks thats how i am, for the past couple days ive been having palpitations and its been freaking me out. and it doesnt help that i have ulnar nerve damage so my pinky and ring finger have been tingly and numb so im like??? but my mom is a doctor so it kind of helps with her reassurance and deep down i know its just stress and like you said the mind is brutal. i know more than half the time i do have chest pains but its not bad until i start focusing on it and making it worse. 7 years and counting, but getting better day by day. Thank you for posting your experiences, you really have no idea how much you help others like me ❤️❤️❤️
Intrusive thoughts is apart of human nature. But its ok. This might help,think of your thoughts good bad, inconsequential ! Imagine your thoughts are little minds circle your big mind competing for your attention. That is what consciousness is. We definitely have an Imagination. And yes,issues one right after the other. I'll trip on one or 2 for like a month or 2 then it'll be another. I accept the fact that I have a mental illness...that doesn't sit well with me because of the stigma attached and yet liberating. But yeah I have General anxiety panic disorder with a side order of ocd shaky legs body with a touch of dizziness and tension headaches and a large glass of insecurity. Gotta love it!
My "Story" goes something like. "Young 22 year old after living a lazy easy life finally gets his due after having that easy life yanked away by tumor" It just feels like something bad has to something.
I started breaking out after my son but only In salt water we swim at the beach and surf a lot as soon as I dry it just goes away doctors have no idea why
Ever since I found your channel I feel less alone so thank you... My irrational thoughts that scare the heck out of me is 1. Brain tumor 2. MS 3. I'm going to die young And I cannot snap out of it..
I dont know if this is irrational thought (sometimes I am at this point): I have thyroid cancer (I have a solid nodule that is been biopsed and is benign BUT whrn they were doing me the BAAF they say something like I can see a solid nodule and bla blabla doctor terms and I say to them:is something wrong? And they were like: dont worry its just that we dont like how your doctor describe your nodule. SO today im thinking that maybe I have another nodule that this doctor saw and haven't biopsed apart from the principal nodule(but i want to believe that if they had seen another one they would tell me??) And I have thoughts like "im going to die at young age" too.
my irrational thoughts right now are ovarian, cervical, and colon cancer🥺i’ve gotten aaaaalllll the symptoms for all of these illnesses. i’m only 12 and this health anxiety is eating me alive. Cherelle, I sent you a dm on instagram and it is about my health anxiety. I really need help, can you please read what i sent you?
Hi there :). Have you talked to your parents about this fear? It's ok to be afraid. Understand that many people struggle with health anxiety, and you are not alone.
me too! im 13, and im so paranoid of finding lumps. around 2 months ago i found two lymph nodes in my neck and i was convinced i had lymphoma and i was crying every single day. i went to the doctor, she said i was completely normal. now i am freaking out over lymph nodes in armpits and armpit lumps. you are not alone!
I have serious health anxiety with my heart. I always get palpitations and flutters and it scares the he’ll out of me. I’ve even taken my self to hospital because I think I’m having a heart attack. Even tho the tests come back fine I still have it planted in my head that there is something wrong with my heart. I get panic attacks often which makes it 100 times more scary. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?
Jessica Rose i’ve been to the hospital about four times because i thought i was having a heart attack. all the tests came back normal and i still feel like something is wrong, what helps is remembering that the tests came back fine and that i’m wasting my time worrying about it and i should have fun. i hope you feel better, we all die at some point but right now is not our time and you’ll be fine i assure you
Extremely Anxious after the first dose of Covid vaccine. I worked myself up so much that I developed twitching. Not sure if it’s the anxiety or the vaccine itself. The issue is even when I relax and don’t worry about the vaccine I still twitch. Twitching everywhere. Anyone else got this from the vaccine ? Or is it just anxiety.
So, remember the passage from the bible about worry? How will worry add a single moment to your life? It wont. It just takes away from it......stress. So, let's acknowledge the anxiety but understand that it is a thought, NOT a warning about reality. Life will present challenges, some very difficult, yet worrying about them doesn't change a thing. Instead of worrying about something, just take care of it. Do you want to live to say 90 years old and THEN realize you wasted so much energy worrying about your health? How about this.... Let's try not worry about your health (OK, perhaps impossible, but still a goal). You will follow up and do your regular health check ups. You will eat well and take care of yourself (perhaps not perfectly, but well). If something bothers you get it checked. Allow the feelings of anxiety, but focus on exactly what it feels like; tense? Shaky? What? It is ALL physiological sensations that lead to anxious thoughts that in turn cause physical sensations that are perceived as anxiety. OK, allow them to pass through and go. They are NORMAL. They are not warnings about something. They are simply your anxiety. Yes, it sucks but you know this all too well. So treat it as you would asthma. It comes and goes and you handle it when you have an "attack", but then go on with your life. Nothing more. Some people suffer from severe migraines. They seem unbearable, yet they too pass. Acknowledge that your anxious feelings are actually normal. You can have similar physiological symptoms that you have when panicky when you are really excited about something. Let's say you won a contest and are going to meet your absolute favorite movie or pop star. You are VERY pumped up about it, yet those same basic physiological symptoms (adrenaline rush) seem normal because, well your very excited. Now those SAME physiological symptoms occur when a thought comes into your head about your health. Focus for a moment on those feelings. Tightness in your chest? Perhaps jittery? nauseous? These in turn get your mind spinning with racing thoughts trying in vain to rationalize why they are there. Your mind then does what it is SUPPOSED to do- look for the threat. But there is no real threat. They are perceived threats yet your mind MUST settle what they are in order to calm down. Your brain is very sensitive to these thoughts.......remember the key word "thoughts". If you cut yourself and the wound gets very tender to the touch it has become very sensitive. When you are all worked up, your brain (remember it IS an organ) gets very sensitive to input as well. Recognize the reality that your brain IS an organ. A very primitive part of your brain is called the amygdala. It reacts in fractions of a second. It had a very important role in keeping you alive; a lion suddenly appears and you don't want to hesitate at all in order to flee. The amygdala sends a signal that caused the instantaneous flight or flight response in order to save your life. That's a GOOD thing, yet with people like us, that same trigger will trip when we have thoughts like health anxiety thoughts. Your brain is doing what it was made to do, flee!!! Animals do this to, yet you will notice that animals flee quickly, escape then when the danger passes they usually go back to eating etc. They do NOT ponder that incident. We humans are different, we do ponder what happened and can think about the future. Therefore, those of us with health worries or worries in general get stuck on that and think it through until we feel satisfied that danger will not happen again. It is a horrible, debilitating condition, yet in fact ALL a physiological reaction. It is normal. We just need to accept that this normal reaction feeds back to our consciousness as a perceived threat. Like Cherelle shared in another video, throws your hands up and give up fighting it!!! Get that fed up with it and tell your fears you give up. Go ahead freak out. FREAK OUT!!!! Your anxiety has no were to go from there. It has always been about resisting it, trying to rationalize through it. Your anxiety will only come up with a new excuse to worry. So, give up! Give it NO WHERE TO GO. The ultimate fear is loss of control. So allow yourself to lose control. It cannot be worse than what you have been going through and your anxiety will hit a dead end. Where do i go from here? I've given up! Go ahead drive me crazy!!! The FACT is, it cannot and will not. What you are doing is cutting of the life line it has, your need for control. Remember that scene in Finding Nemo where Dory and Marlin are in the whale? They are hanging onto the whales tongue fearing falling down into it's belly. Dory tells Marlin that the whale is telling them to "let go". Martin is terrified, "are you crazy?!!!". He is finally convinced to let go and that is what saved them. They were then able to be ejected from the whale through it's spout. They were safe! It was very hard for Marlin to "just let go", yet he did and was saved. It's very hard folks. I have been dealing with this since I was a very young boy. There was not much help back then, yet today we understand so much more about the workings of our brains. The only way to get better is to allow yourself to face the fear. IT IS VERY< VERY hard, yet not as hard as living with it indefinitely. I'm not going to say you may get better because the truth is, you WILL get better. It may be slow, but your brain is an organ and it does adapt. You need to teach your brain a "new trick" by doing so over and over. It will become easier and more normal. You can do. A psychiatrist may be a good route for help as they can prescribe medications to help you through this challenge. Remember, your brain is an organic thing and all of your thoughts are regulated by neurochemicals. Sometimes a benzodiazepine can help take the edge off to give you a better starting point to begin. Sometimes antidepressants help control the thought process as well. These do not have to be taken forever. It's worth seeing a psychiatrist who specializes in anxiety disorders. We take pills for headaches, diabetes and a myriad of other ailments that affect our bodies. Consider help for your other organ, your brain. Your doctor will work with you to do what is best for your situation.
We are all sick. When you accept that life will be easy. Cuz and the end we all DIE.. young - old ... nobody promised you tomorrow. Stop searching on the internet and listen to people like this it won’t help you... you know why? Because you are looking for reasurence ... first the doctor, then colleagues, familie, friends, specialist... lookinh for reasurence is a crazy sickness.
Noah November Hi Noah, it sounds like you perhaps don’t suffer from health anxiety. A lot of us do know that we will all of course die in the end, but it doesn’t stop the anxiety and the irrational thoughts that flood our minds. Health anxiety is a recognised form of OCD so unfortunately it isn’t as simple as just ‘stop searching on the internet’ or looking for reassurance. To stop doing these safety mechanisms can be really tough (and I’m personally speaking from experience). Health anxiety is a tough cookie to crack!
i suffer from the same irrational thought every day, which is im scared im going to have a heart attack. im 20 years old i know the probability of that is slim but i cant let it go. i have a pain in my jaw? heart attack symptom. i have pain in my neck/shoulder/arm? heart attack symptom. pain in my chest? heart attack symptom. but fact is, its been 7 years its not and i cant grasp that, its so tiring to know youre okay but still freak out. 😫
Hope Hernandez I’ve had all those symptoms - had multiple EKGs, wore a heart monitor and had echocardiogram and everything was fine. The jaw pain can come from grinding your teeth at night or the stress pressure we put on our mouth. I know for me I’ve caught myself clenching my jaw and the leads to all kinds of weird sensations in the mouth/jaw.
Emjay Aram thats how i am. i think the fear comes from i made myself panic so bad one time i was in the hospital and my heart got up to 174 bpm, it was scary but i know im healthy, and i know i clench my jaw every minute of every day.
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IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, I won’t be responding to Instagram messages anymore. I hope you guys understand. It’s not an easy thing for me to have to say. Back when I first started my channel I had very little subscribers so this was something I could do easily but now as my channel has grown and that I’m a mother to two very young children, it’s impossible for me to respond to everyone. I currently have 92 unread messages in my inbox and that’s only from last week. I’ve also been getting a lot of rude and hurtful messages of people saying that I’m fake because I’m not responding or sending me message after message demanding for my attention. It’s been getting me so down and people have said some horrible things. I know how it feels when you’re desperate. Truly, I do. I’ve been there and it’s sucks. But please remember I am just one person. A lot of people are also asking me for medical advice but please remember I am not a doctor. I’m just like you.
If you want to get in touch, I offer health anxiety talking sessions which you can book here - cherellethinks.setmore.com
I also have a health anxiety support page on Facebook that I interact with a lot. Just type in ‘Health Anxiety Community’ and you should find it. Lastly, I also do regular Q&A’s on my Instagram too where I can answer any questions people may have. I hope you understand and it’s never my intention to upset anyone. There just isn’t enough hours in the day. Thanks so much. X
I am so glad I found your videos x
Cancer, Cancer and cancer and every pain I have makes me think cancer b4 any other illness
Do you ever get in the mornings crazy thoughts like doom feeling, heart attack, stroke or something bad going to happen even you are good health? But still battling this with no meds.
Classic anxiety. Millions of people struggle with what you're experiencing.
It’s the cortisol
A thing that helps me is looking up if my symptom is an anxiety symptom which can really put things in perspective!
My top three irrational thoughts are that I have some rare insane cancer like elbow cancer, I’m having a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage and recently that I have lymphoma. Oh! Also that I have undiagnosed MS! It’s gotten to the point where I’m scared to sleep at night because I’m afraid I won’t wake up 😔 I just get so filled with terror around bedtime but these videos have really been helping me sort through my thoughts. It’s hard being so scared all the time especially when then this is a *completely* unfamiliar feeling to me (it only started about two months ago). Thank you for making these Cherelle!!
My top irrational fears right now are that
1. I have an anurysm in my brain.
2. I have a pituitary tumor.
3. I have an aorta anurysm
I get this thought all the time, even when I get reassurance from a Doctor I still don’t believe them, even though they are Doctors and know what they’re doing I still doubt it a lot obviously because it’s my body I feel it physically and no one else can it’s terrible
I know exactly how you’re feeling because I’m currently experiencing the same thing..
I feel like the doctors just telling me what I want to hear or maybe made a mistake. I know it sounds crazy but once you’re mind process something as bad then that’s it
tysm im suffering so much from health anxiety right now, it all started from stomach pain... had a colonoscopy thinking i had stomach cancer ... im 22 btw... then after it came out negative i continue to freak out and having new symptoms now... its driving me crazy... these symptoms seem soooo reall... im so sad now 😔 this is crazy thank you so much for your videos they help me out alot
Have you been tested for coeliac disease? It’s just a simple blood test☺️
Jorge I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this worry. It sucks when we get good results and should be reassured but we still can’t relax.I think it’s why some people find it to hard to understand health anxiety. Anxiety can do some absolutely crazy things to our body, especially our digestive systems! I hope you feel better soon. X
Your videos help so much. It makes me feel sane bc I’m the only person that I personally know that’s is dealt with health anxiety. At the moment my irrational thoughts are that I have stomach cancer or colon cancer. I’m obsessing over my bowel movements and I’m pretty sure there blood in my stool. I have a lot of pressure and pain in my colon and I’m thinking that’s it’s a tumor that growing in there. If not that then the cancer tumor is in my stomach somewhere.
ive convinced myself that I have some sort of cancer that the doctors missed and that i'm not going to get diagnosed until it spreads and i'll die young. i have these weird pains in my hands and legs that go away when i'm not worrying about them but i've convinced myself that it's still something serious. i dont know if this happens to anyone else but i always get this thought that maybe i'm anxious because there is something genuinely wrong and my body is trying to tell me something. also, thank you so much for your videos they reassure me more that anything and help so so much!!
The self doubt is the worst thing about health anxiety. You're always battling between reality and doubt!
Thanks cherelle for a great video,really needed this now.Dont have health anxiety but do suffer from anxiety and irrational thoughts are so convincing.
This videos help me so muuuch! Just knowing I’m not the only one who has these irrational thoughts. Also, I don’t know why I’ve told myself it will be hard for me to be a mother because of my health anxiety & anxiety in general, and seeing you really has changed my mentality on that!
Dont worry Cherelle keep making your vids, you are an amazing person for just living with your condition but raising a child aswell, you light up my day and you will inspire many more to come 👍x
Drew Mclellan Thank you so much! ☺️ That really means a lot! X
I have several things I think I have but one of them right now is I think I’m developing dementia or psychosis. I keep trying to question myself and ask myself things like when is my birthday or my child’s birthday or any fact about my life to make sure I can remember. I always can but I keep thinking what if I can’t tomorrow or in an hour. I’m suffering from DPDR and I think that is why I feel like I’m getting this. Also the fear of cancer due to loss of appetite, weight loss, and stomach issues. And ALS for muscle twitching and cramps.
Sarah Trail I’m so sorry to hear this Sarah. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate! I’ve gone through the whole scenario of convincing myself I’m getting early onset Alzheimer’s or psychosis. I even convinced myself that I was seeing flashing lights coming from the TV and hearing things that weren’t there so I was 100% convinced I was developing schizophrenia. But it was all anxiety! Same with the muscle twitching, I’ve also been down that awful rabbit hole of being utterly convinced of ALS. It’s bloody exhausting isn’t it! :(
Hey Sarah I use to have the exact same thoughts as you, it really sucks. I did had thoughts that I am developing dementia and same as you I keep asking myself do I remember this or remember that. It does go away though hang in there. At the moment I’m having weird feeling and thoughts of “what am I doing here “ “ is this real “ is this really my house “ is weird… scary
I can TOTALLY relate with everything you said.. First off, I too have definitely went through the fear of thinking I had early onset dementia!!!
It’s so crazy but also fascinating how you can think your the only person dealing and responding to issues a certain way then realize others are doing the same!! I would also quiz myself by asking myself certain questions that I knew I should know without hesitation and would become scared out of my mind when I couldn’t remember some of the questions or at least not remember fast as I thought I should.. Once I got over that cancer scares took over… I swear it’s never ending and extremely hard to deal with!!
Just know you’re not alone!!!!
Charelle if I wrote down ALL of my irrational thoughts I’d probably be here until the day I die.
Thank you
Hey, i've already asked this on the muscle twitching video but i'm driving myself crazy with irrational thoughts now, I've now had pain in both my legs twitching in arms and legs and face and still get it in my legs here and there. Now i've got what feels like a tired right arm and feelings like ny hand twitches when i'm texting or whatever (convinced that's the horrible disease attacking my arms and hands now) i just wanted to know what it was that convinced you after a few months that you didn't have als. It's been since march now and every day is absolute torture :(
Hi naomi, how have u been? Im having the symptoms as u now, did u get better?
Irrational thoughts. 1) I’m going to die young I’m 46 and will not see my daughters grow up. 2) I will get something awful like ALS or cancer. 3) That I can’t breath and will need an oxygen mask. 4) that I have gives myself COPD through smoking. There you go and thanks.
Mine is ALS, Breast cancer, anything in my throat or glands in my neck
ah i've had a few over the years. liver cancer when i was younger, obviously wasn't. brain cancer when i actually was undiagnosed with anxiety. and lately its mouth/throat/oesophagus cancer. this last one is bad as its gave me Globus. which if you haven't had, is so horrible. it's fading off now but I've had it for nearly a week. stupid brain! thanks once again for another amazing video.
i suffer from the same irrational thought every day, which is im scared im going to have a heart attack. im 20 years old i know the probability of that is slim but i cant let it go. i have a pain in my jaw? heart attack symptom. i have pain in my neck/shoulder/arm? heart attack symptom. pain in my chest? heart attack symptom. but fact is, its been 7 years its not and i cant grasp that, its so tiring to know youre okay but still freak out. 😫
Hope Hernandez Oh I’m sorry to hear this. I’ve been there and it’s terrible. I’m 26 and I went to my doctor because I had daily palpitations, chest pain and pain all down my left arm along with feeling dizzy and the doctor basically laughed at me. I demanded to be referred to cardiology because I was utterly convinced and nothing was wrong apart from some innocent ectopic beats. I honestly thing I imagined the arm pain because I had read it was a symptom of a heart attack. The mind is brutal!
Cherelle Thinks thats how i am, for the past couple days ive been having palpitations and its been freaking me out. and it doesnt help that i have ulnar nerve damage so my pinky and ring finger have been tingly and numb so im like??? but my mom is a doctor so it kind of helps with her reassurance and deep down i know its just stress and like you said the mind is brutal. i know more than half the time i do have chest pains but its not bad until i start focusing on it and making it worse. 7 years and counting, but getting better day by day. Thank you for posting your experiences, you really have no idea how much you help others like me ❤️❤️❤️
Intrusive thoughts is apart of human nature. But its ok. This might help,think of your thoughts good bad, inconsequential ! Imagine your thoughts are little minds circle your big mind competing for your attention. That is what consciousness is. We definitely have an Imagination. And yes,issues one right after the other. I'll trip on one or 2 for like a month or 2 then it'll be another. I accept the fact that I have a mental illness...that doesn't sit well with me because of the stigma attached and yet liberating. But yeah I have General anxiety panic disorder with a side order of ocd shaky legs body with a touch of dizziness and tension headaches and a large glass of insecurity. Gotta love it!
My "Story" goes something like. "Young 22 year old after living a lazy easy life finally gets his due after having that easy life yanked away by tumor" It just feels like something bad has to something.
I started breaking out after my son but only In salt water we swim at the beach and surf a lot as soon as I dry it just goes away doctors have no idea why
Ever since I found your channel I feel less alone so thank you...
My irrational thoughts that scare the heck out of me is
1. Brain tumor
2. MS
3. I'm going to die young
And I cannot snap out of it..
Feeling better?
What about ruminating thought
I dont know if this is irrational thought (sometimes I am at this point): I have thyroid cancer (I have a solid nodule that is been biopsed and is benign BUT whrn they were doing me the BAAF they say something like I can see a solid nodule and bla blabla doctor terms and I say to them:is something wrong? And they were like: dont worry its just that we dont like how your doctor describe your nodule. SO today im thinking that maybe I have another nodule that this doctor saw and haven't biopsed apart from the principal nodule(but i want to believe that if they had seen another one they would tell me??)
And I have thoughts like "im going to die at young age" too.
What’s the difference from irrational thoughts n schizophrenia
my irrational thoughts right now are ovarian, cervical, and colon cancer🥺i’ve gotten aaaaalllll the symptoms for all of these illnesses. i’m only 12 and this health anxiety is eating me alive. Cherelle, I sent you a dm on instagram and it is about my health anxiety. I really need help, can you please read what i sent you?
Hi there :). Have you talked to your parents about this fear? It's ok to be afraid. Understand that many people struggle with health anxiety, and you are not alone.
me too! im 13, and im so paranoid of finding lumps. around 2 months ago i found two lymph nodes in my neck and i was convinced i had lymphoma and i was crying every single day. i went to the doctor, she said i was completely normal. now i am freaking out over lymph nodes in armpits and armpit lumps. you are not alone!
I’m off balance all the time with no diagnosis ! Had mri etc etc ! Any ideas ??
Ive been like that for 7 months now, have you find the cause?
I have serious health anxiety with my heart. I always get palpitations and flutters and it scares the he’ll out of me. I’ve even taken my self to hospital because I think I’m having a heart attack. Even tho the tests come back fine I still have it planted in my head that there is something wrong with my heart. I get panic attacks often which makes it 100 times more scary. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?
Jessica Rose i’ve been to the hospital about four times because i thought i was having a heart attack. all the tests came back normal and i still feel like something is wrong, what helps is remembering that the tests came back fine and that i’m wasting my time worrying about it and i should have fun. i hope you feel better, we all die at some point but right now is not our time and you’ll be fine i assure you
ellie s thank you, Health anxiety is the devil x
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Extremely Anxious after the first dose of Covid vaccine. I worked myself up so much that I developed twitching. Not sure if it’s the anxiety or the vaccine itself. The issue is even when I relax and don’t worry about the vaccine I still twitch. Twitching everywhere. Anyone else got this from the vaccine ? Or is it just anxiety.
Mee too How are you doing now plllllzzz pllllzzzzz reply..
My irrational thought right now is
Melanoma that’s spread to the brain.
So, remember the passage from the bible about worry? How will worry add a single moment to your life? It wont. It just takes away from it......stress.
So, let's acknowledge the anxiety but understand that it is a thought, NOT a warning about reality. Life will present challenges, some very difficult, yet worrying about them doesn't change a thing. Instead of worrying about something, just take care of it. Do you want to live to say 90 years old and THEN realize you wasted so much energy worrying about your health? How about this....
Let's try not worry about your health (OK, perhaps impossible, but still a goal). You will follow up and do your regular health check ups. You will eat well and take care of yourself (perhaps not perfectly, but well). If something bothers you get it checked. Allow the feelings of anxiety, but focus on exactly what it feels like; tense? Shaky? What? It is ALL physiological sensations that lead to anxious thoughts that in turn cause physical sensations that are perceived as anxiety. OK, allow them to pass through and go. They are NORMAL. They are not warnings about something. They are simply your anxiety. Yes, it sucks but you know this all too well. So treat it as you would asthma. It comes and goes and you handle it when you have an "attack", but then go on with your life. Nothing more. Some people suffer from severe migraines. They seem unbearable, yet they too pass. Acknowledge that your anxious feelings are actually normal. You can have similar physiological symptoms that you have when panicky when you are really excited about something. Let's say you won a contest and are going to meet your absolute favorite movie or pop star. You are VERY pumped up about it, yet those same basic physiological symptoms (adrenaline rush) seem normal because, well your very excited. Now those SAME physiological symptoms occur when a thought comes into your head about your health. Focus for a moment on those feelings. Tightness in your chest? Perhaps jittery? nauseous? These in turn get your mind spinning with racing thoughts trying in vain to rationalize why they are there. Your mind then does what it is SUPPOSED to do- look for the threat. But there is no real threat. They are perceived threats yet your mind MUST settle what they are in order to calm down. Your brain is very sensitive to these thoughts.......remember the key word "thoughts". If you cut yourself and the wound gets very tender to the touch it has become very sensitive. When you are all worked up, your brain (remember it IS an organ) gets very sensitive to input as well. Recognize the reality that your brain IS an organ. A very primitive part of your brain is called the amygdala. It reacts in fractions of a second. It had a very important role in keeping you alive; a lion suddenly appears and you don't want to hesitate at all in order to flee. The amygdala sends a signal that caused the instantaneous flight or flight response in order to save your life. That's a GOOD thing, yet with people like us, that same trigger will trip when we have thoughts like health anxiety thoughts. Your brain is doing what it was made to do, flee!!! Animals do this to, yet you will notice that animals flee quickly, escape then when the danger passes they usually go back to eating etc. They do NOT ponder that incident. We humans are different, we do ponder what happened and can think about the future. Therefore, those of us with health worries or worries in general get stuck on that and think it through until we feel satisfied that danger will not happen again. It is a horrible, debilitating condition, yet in fact ALL a physiological reaction. It is normal. We just need to accept that this normal reaction feeds back to our consciousness as a perceived threat. Like Cherelle shared in another video, throws your hands up and give up fighting it!!! Get that fed up with it and tell your fears you give up. Go ahead freak out. FREAK OUT!!!! Your anxiety has no were to go from there. It has always been about resisting it, trying to rationalize through it. Your anxiety will only come up with a new excuse to worry. So, give up! Give it NO WHERE TO GO. The ultimate fear is loss of control. So allow yourself to lose control. It cannot be worse than what you have been going through and your anxiety will hit a dead end. Where do i go from here? I've given up! Go ahead drive me crazy!!! The FACT is, it cannot and will not. What you are doing is cutting of the life line it has, your need for control. Remember that scene in Finding Nemo where Dory and Marlin are in the whale? They are hanging onto the whales tongue fearing falling down into it's belly. Dory tells Marlin that the whale is telling them to "let go". Martin is terrified, "are you crazy?!!!". He is finally convinced to let go and that is what saved them. They were then able to be ejected from the whale through it's spout. They were safe! It was very hard for Marlin to "just let go", yet he did and was saved. It's very hard folks. I have been dealing with this since I was a very young boy. There was not much help back then, yet today we understand so much more about the workings of our brains. The only way to get better is to allow yourself to face the fear. IT IS VERY< VERY hard, yet not as hard as living with it indefinitely. I'm not going to say you may get better because the truth is, you WILL get better. It may be slow, but your brain is an organ and it does adapt. You need to teach your brain a "new trick" by doing so over and over. It will become easier and more normal. You can do. A psychiatrist may be a good route for help as they can prescribe medications to help you through this challenge. Remember, your brain is an organic thing and all of your thoughts are regulated by neurochemicals. Sometimes a benzodiazepine can help take the edge off to give you a better starting point to begin. Sometimes antidepressants help control the thought process as well. These do not have to be taken forever. It's worth seeing a psychiatrist who specializes in anxiety disorders. We take pills for headaches, diabetes and a myriad of other ailments that affect our bodies. Consider help for your other organ, your brain. Your doctor will work with you to do what is best for your situation.
I’m in the brain t trap at the moment…it’s been one of the worst months of my life
how r u now
mine are heart failour stroke and als
What my therapist told me to do is write thoughts down
Btw cherrel you singel?
Noah November Nope! :)
man, that's cheap. you can't even get her name right.
noro__ ok. But she is hot.
We are all sick. When you accept that life will be easy. Cuz and the end we all DIE.. young - old ... nobody promised you tomorrow. Stop searching on the internet and listen to people like this it won’t help you... you know why? Because you are looking for reasurence ... first the doctor, then colleagues, familie, friends, specialist... lookinh for reasurence is a crazy sickness.
Noah November Hi Noah, it sounds like you perhaps don’t suffer from health anxiety. A lot of us do know that we will all of course die in the end, but it doesn’t stop the anxiety and the irrational thoughts that flood our minds. Health anxiety is a recognised form of OCD so unfortunately it isn’t as simple as just ‘stop searching on the internet’ or looking for reassurance. To stop doing these safety mechanisms can be really tough (and I’m personally speaking from experience). Health anxiety is a tough cookie to crack!
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i suffer from the same irrational thought every day, which is im scared im going to have a heart attack. im 20 years old i know the probability of that is slim but i cant let it go. i have a pain in my jaw? heart attack symptom. i have pain in my neck/shoulder/arm? heart attack symptom. pain in my chest? heart attack symptom. but fact is, its been 7 years its not and i cant grasp that, its so tiring to know youre okay but still freak out. 😫
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I’ve had all those symptoms - had multiple EKGs, wore a heart monitor and had echocardiogram and everything was fine. The jaw pain can come from grinding your teeth at night or the stress pressure we put on our mouth. I know for me I’ve caught myself clenching my jaw and the leads to all kinds of weird sensations in the mouth/jaw.
Emjay Aram thats how i am. i think the fear comes from i made myself panic so bad one time i was in the hospital and my heart got up to 174 bpm, it was scary but i know im healthy, and i know i clench my jaw every minute of every day.
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