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8 years ago 0 6252 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
perth

I would think if your muscles work when you need them too and you still have energy then it is likely anxiety. Resting I feel like I can't move sometimes yet if I do I'm okay. Mind you my memory knows what it is like to be not able to move so it can do this. In your case it is probably associated with what you have seen of ALS and Parkinson's.  Just your body saying prove we don't have this. 

Davit
8 years ago 0 62 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi,

I think I maybe have to tell, that a good friend of us has bpassed away recently, having had ALS, a devastating disease.

I may have Health Anxiety now because of observing that good friend how he was slowly dying within 1.5 years, and also maybe because of my mother, suffering from parkinson-like symptoms (and this drives me crazy too: doctors say, its not a real parkinson, but something like an atypical parkinson - but then, what is it? did it start for her with psychological symptoms, and if yes, do i have the same future as my mother? she has been diagnosed 8 years ago - I think that was the first time when I had a panick attack, but it did not repeat, it did not become a disease that time. Now, when I observe her and how her condition is, is really frightening for me.)

I think , well I hope, you may be right, I need to check out on the Health Anxiety kind of stuff... symptoms, diagnosis..etc

I will do my best. I think I just wanted to say, that I have gone through so many painful moments with our friend and my mother, where you stand there without any means of support. You can't really do anything .. its just so painful seeing your loved ones suffering, becoming independent, and knowing, they are going to dye soon.

Reading my own posts, trying to see it with an eye of a friend, a mate, a paniccenter buddy, I think, I may need to work on the Health Anxiety issue. So thank you so much Davit, I am going to check out on this more.

I find this CBT program really great, I have to say, it saved my life in 2007, when I quitted SSRIs suffering from depression. That time I have posted there a lot, hopefully also supported a few buddies, done all the lessons and homework for Depression, and the CBT program worked fantastic for me. Since then I have never taken SSRIs any more. I recommended this site to all of my friends. Actually, I have even lost 15 kgs weights (about 30 pounds i think) within 3-4 months, with the other sister site (healtyweightcenter) which was that time, early 2008, just up and running. The 30 pounds I gained while I was taking the SSRI. Everyone who was wondering how this was done, I referred to this Site (healthyweightcenter.net).

Well, I think, there is another life-challenge in front of me to overcome: the Health Anxiety issue.
I hope at least, its really "just Health Anxiety"  - I guess I have to laugh myself about how I am able to worry about health...

How did the creators of these pages know, that people will come back with another issue?

Chapeu!  --- and thank you all for the great support you provide here, to the Doctors (authors of these sites), Health Educators, and to all members who jump in with their own experiences & expertise. Its a blessing. 

I will keep you posted with any success stories, I promise.

8 years ago 0 62 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Davit,

I was not able to reply to this message of you since i have been dealing with my mother recently a lot, she had to move out from her departement, since she is not independent any more.

Let me tell you that I have VERY MUCH appreciated your kind words, your willingness to help.
Yes, I have enough patience and am also ready to work through the sessions, I will do my home work too.

I try to understand what you are saying, and will keep telling myself, my brain tells me the wrong instructions.

Please, tell me one thing: does it also belong to the anxiety symptoms, when muscles feel like frozen stiff? It feels like my strength would diminish, as if energy would just flow away out of my arms and legs.
I checked on this each time. I still have energy, I play sports, and play piano. All works perfectly.
I just don't get why i feel this in a resting state...?? My mind go crazy, and start to compare my symptoms with those of my mother, who REALLY is ill, with Parkinson. And I know, she also had situations where her muscles felt frozen, but then she was not able to move at all. 

I went to the general practitioner, she cheked my nerves, they seemed to be OK.

I am wondering, shall I go to a specialist now?
Or is this just part of anxiety/panic?

I have to admit, these sensations disappear when taking tranquilizer. I guess, I have never read about all the symptoms, but I am just not convinced, that I am really OK, physically. 

Are these the wrong thoughts ? I feel completely lost. 
Do you / does anyone have any ideas what is going on with me?
8 years ago 0 6252 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
My Apology

HA is Health anxiety. Probably the most difficult to deal with because the trigger is with you all the time. It can be cured though. Technically all anxiety can be since nothing is broke or missing. Your mind is working as it is designed to do, it just has the wrong instructions. I hope you have patience because there is a lot of work to do before getting to where you can change those instructions. To put it real simple your mind has two pathways one for normal thoughts and actions and one for survival and fear thoughts. you are instructing your mind to use the later by thinking about health and other triggers that call for this path.  Now why gets complicated. But why it is so strong is not. Again it is instructions out of memory. Over time memory has changed some thoughts from facts to instructions and reinforced them. This usually goes back and forth till some event sets what was a fact as an instruction and won't go back because your mind thinks it belongs. So you are not going crazy, there really is no such thing. 
I will help you to put everything back right and get your life back on track but you need to do this program because it will save me a lot of time teaching you things you need to know. It will give you the relief to deal with unwanted thoughts. Do not worry about going crazy or dying. Your mind will put those instructions in a locked file first. 
I'm totally panic free and don't get symptoms so try to ignore them, we will get rid of them. They are your mind guessing at a solution.  Best thing you can do is tell your mind it has the wrong solution since it otherwise doesn't know. Dwelling on a symptom tells it that it is right when it is not.

Davit
8 years ago 0 62 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Davit

Thanks so much for your words. Apologize, what is "HA"?
I dont know what i've got, am quite confused. I just know i am crying all day, dont know why, and dont know if i am really sick with a serious disease or is it just the fears doing that with me. 
I feel short of strength in my hands, seems to become better after i was able to sleep, but it comes back after a few minutes of being awake. I feel lost. I think i still need to go to doctor, no way around it. Anyway, why do i cry all day with the fear that i will dye?? 

Why did i get this condition? My manager was not really kind but is that a reason tomgo crazy?
I am confused, have fear of complete lost of control. 
How do i move on from here? 

Any thoughts? Any ideas? What do i need to pay attention to? Where shall i start get things working again?

I am very grateful for any hints. I am grateful to know this site and people "listening" and caring.

Thank you so much again.
8 years ago 0 6252 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Welcome perth

HA is a tough one. Especially with transference. This is where you take on your mothers condition as yours, because you also take on her prospects even though they are not realistic. 

I'm going to give you two sites with larger HA boards you might want to check also. Nomorepanic and Anxietyzone. Don't mention my name at nomorepanic, I'm not welcome there. I upset some people, they are still mad at me.

We will support you here and the program will help with the anxiety. I know about HA but have never had it or reason to research it so I won't be much good to you.

Davit


8 years ago 0 62 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hello All,

I am posting here now as i feel fully lost.
I think i knew about this website for a long time, but never really started through program.
Since i dont know any more how i could move on, i think i need to dig into this.

In the meantime, please help!
What should i do differently?

I have huge fears which now seem to paralyze me. Physically. And this again makes me worry about my health.
Are you familiar with such? Is this something anyone knows??
I am worrying a lot since a week maybe, about some strange disease i may have, but i also kind of think, its maybe the fears that make me so short of strength in my arms and legs (or is it because i am texting constantly on my smart phone??). I worry!! I'm afraid of going to the doctor to get this clarified, since i am absolutely frightened if there is a bad diagnosis.

Please help - how can i find peace of mind?

I am absolutely in a wrong "mode". I dont know how to get back to normal life. When i am working, that helps, it distracts me a bit, but soon i am supposed to have vacation. I dont know how i will survive during  a time where there is no distraction and i can think of my potential disease all the time and i go crazy about it.

The sources of my fears:
I have been going on through a lot of stressful situation, having organized helpnfor my mother who lives alone and abroad (where i actually come from). She recently had a few occasions when she felt paralyzed and couldnt move, blaming her diagnosed disease: parkinson.
I feel like i have maybe the same???

She made me worry a lot in recent times when things were not yet arranged for her. Now she's gor someone helping with householding, etc.
I would have all reasons to be calm, but i feel like i can't. In addition to me worrying about her constantly, i now also worry about my own health, especially, since i feel this kind of "freezing" muscles. I am really worried i have something similar as my mother, but i am a bit young for that i thought, i am in my 30's.

Please, does someone have an advice how to cope with these thoughts, fears, worries, how to get back my life?

I may have forgotten how it feels like living a normal life. Just before the stressful weeks around my mother i have had some other issues going on, at work, that made me worry a lot very intensively, from time to time.

I guess i'm afraid i would die soon, since i dont seem to have any positive imagination of my future. I am afraid of dying, i actually dont know why i think this(??!)

Does anyone have any advice that can help?

Thank you!!!!

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