Well, i have to admit, i get freaked out, worried, anxious over illnesses and diseases when i start to think about them too much or hear about them too often.
For example, if a friend tells me they have an infection or some sort of illness i'll start to wonder if im exhibiting symptoms of that illness. If i start to get paranoid about catching an infection or sickness ill start to convince myself i have symptoms!!
I dont go as far as going to the doctor and panicing every few days- it's more a thought that stays on my mind for a few days and then i forget about it, or realise im being silly.
No, but if you live in America it's not surprising. Fear and sex are our best sellers!
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Originally posted by savethedrama4yrmama
The only thing I flip out over are STDs. If my junk even looks at me funny I'm freaking out that I might have something.
well, that's just smart though...
but really, if your junk LOOKS at you...that might be a problem in itself!
I can relate to you because I am total out of line when it comes to illnesses and diseases, especially cancer. Several times, I convinced myself that I have them just because I was ill, weak or stressed out.
I never like the thought of knowing anyone in my family, relatives, friends, etc. are sick because I get so worry and afraid they are dying, but that is because I love them.
Lately, I have been thinking about strokes and heart attacks . I don't know why, but I think I ate too much fattty food and it got me thinking.
I just got my junk tested today at the local sexual health clinic and everything seems to be in working order.
But i know what you mean about STDs...scary stuff..that's why everyone should get tested, helps you sleep at night!!!
I'm not a freak on having a cod...but try growing up with a Mom who IS! my God, if someone has Lupus, my mom will start having symptoms. If you get lymes diseasefrom a tick, she will almost create a red circular bump somewhere on her body. If you cuogh around her, within days she will have emphysema or Pneumonia.I was SOOO scared watching OutBreak with her, because , one time, many years ago,she *horrors!* went into an exotic pet store!! And I was just waiting for her to claim some Ebola strain.... No kidding- Its hell when someone needs that much attention from others, and THEY are supposed to be the care-giver. Look at the root of your fears and see if its not just attention you crave.
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i am too! i have had swollen lymphnodes in my neck for years (the doc said it was probably scar tissue (?)), but i still think i have some sort of illness. evertime i get a pain in my head i think i have a tumor, hell maybe i'll get an anurism. its so stupid. i'm a lot better than used to be. why let worrying control your life?
Every time my best friend gets the slightest bit of gastrointestinal weirdness, she thinks that she has an intestinal blockage. We laugh about it, but in some part of her mind its a serious concern. I think we all have a "worry" spot or illness. Hers is her colon and mine is my junk, apparently.
I think some of it is to blame on advertisments.
How many commercials, websites, etc tell us how way mayb be ill everyday? Hundreds. It's good to be cautious, but they make it to a point where the slightest thing freaks people out.
You know what I think you folks need? You folks need a near death experience.
I have a really good friend of mine who is a skydiving instructor. One day while he is teaching a class a guy in his class comes up to him in private and tells him that his girlfriend was a huge hypochondriac. They hatched a plan. I have no idea how he talked David into this, but when he was at 10k feet he was going to tell this poor girl that the canopy would not deploy. He was going to start screaming into the girl’s ear that they were going to die and that she should make her peace with God. The plan was to allow her to think she was about to have a front-row seat to her own downfall (pun intended) until they reached about 3k feet, and then deploy, come down, and everything would be great.
Well as far as helping this girl with her hypochondria, it worked I am told. There was this one problem however… well two actually.
During freefall everything went fine at first. When he told her they were going to die she freaked out and they started going out of control and stuff, exactly as planed, then after a few seconds she resigned herself to the fate of a stop suddenly when they hit the ground and death... But only for a few seconds. Next thing David knows this woman is trying to pull the reserve and he is doing everything in his power to stop her because the reserve is not as large as the main canopy. He said it took all the strength in his arms, (and he is a fairly large guy) and the main canopy itself to get her under control. David guides them down to the landing zone. The girl at this point is not mad, only relieved that they had survived. It wasn’t until she sees the look on her boyfriend’s face and his laughter that she puts it all together.
So while this girl is still strapped to David and he can't get away, she turns around in the harness and starts to beat the crap out of him. I wasn’t there to see it, but I hear it was a hoot to see this little girl beat the crap out of him when he really deserved it. And he wound up with a BIG BLACK EYE a few days after it happed.
I've been skydiving..and I DO NOT find that funny..that is almost sick.
She needs a doctors help, not a near death experience!!
My paranoia is only very slight! I think of things i could potentially exposed to, like STDs and i do the responsible thing and make sure im ok, and rest my mind assured that im just being paranoid!
I certainly dont do anything like convincing myself im sick, if i have symptoms for an illness- like the flu- ill go to my dr, but i dont make up illnesses to convince myself im sick when im perfectly fine!
I have psycho-hypochondria. I think I'm obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, autistic, and so on, when I'm really not. But I never imagine myself with actual physical diseases.
Wierd, eh?
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well, that's just smart though...
. I don't know why, but I think I ate too much fattty food and it got me thinking. 
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