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I’m new here!

I would like to share with you my first blog post that is part of my story and trying to (maybe) steal few giggles from readers. In many years battling with anxiety I got a bit tired of reading about the same advices that never helped me. The only think helping me was reading someones unfiltered emotions so I know I’m not in this battle alone.
So if you want you can read my blog on the following links.
ko-fi.com/caffeinepoweredstoryteller
Welcome to Code Name: Anxiety
I wish you great days with the minimum struggles and maximum strength to face them!
#MentalHealth #Anxiety #Hypochondria #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #MightyTogether

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Panic attack disorder/Hypochondria

Hi, I’m Phoenix. I’ve been dealing with a crippling panic attack disorder for years now, centered around hypochondria. Recently it’s stemmed into some really dark thoughts and is putting me in a really dark place. I got recommended to be here by a Crisis Line. Just looking for any help and above whatsoever as i’m really struggling.
I’m on medication, ativan as needed and Lexapro daily. I recently upped my Lexapro dosage from 10mg to 20mg as well, if that info helps at all. #panic #PanicAttacks #PanicAttack #Hypochondria #IfYouFeelHopeless #MentalHealth #Anxiety

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I’m new here!

Hi, my name is phoenixplischke. I'm here because I’ve been dealing with a crippling panic attack disorder based around hypochondria for years that will not go away and has stemmed to dark thoughts. Looking for help.

#MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression

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Gettin started

I’m trying to get started in this group. I feel my current therapist isn’t helping me a lot but some is better than none. I currently suffer from MDD, SAD, anxiety, PTSD and they say I have hypochondria

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Just diagnosed!

Howdy Howdy!. I was just diagnosed with heart failure in May 2024. It took me 17 years to get that diagnosis. But I got it now and am doing much better now that treatment has started. Before that I had a "mystery disease", aka hypochondria.

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Spontaneous Remission

I want to share a positive development in my life in hopes it will help others believe that things can get better. I’ve dealt with mental illness my whole life. As a child, I had severe anxiety and depression, chronic illness, insomnia, hypochondria, superstition, paranoia, and OCD. Add to that emotional neglect and abuse. I was terrified by things like my family watching the “wrong” channel on TV and snow when the sun shone on it. I couldn’t tell anyone because I was obviously a freak. I became suicidal at age 11. Then I read all my dad’s books on anxiety and tried meditation. It helped somewhat, but then I became manic and self medicated with alcohol and pot. But I was a black out drunk and pot made me psychotic. I cried every night through college. I got married, had three kids, and taught for 27 years. I was volatile and suicidal, but skeptical of therapy and medication. In his senior year, one of my sons lost his ability to read, became psychotic, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Within a half hour of taking Abilify, his psychosis disappeared. A few months later, my career ended, and I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I availed myself of therapy and medication because of how it helped my son. Even so, I sunk into despair and attempted suicide twice and was hospitalized 4 times. Things improved, but then in 2017 I started having these terrifying episodes of unreality and extreme mental torture. Nothing helped. These episodes lasted for hours and came out of the blue. No one understood. My psychiatrist berated me as a failure. But I was weirdly happy that no one could relate, because I was a freak again, and I didn’t want anyone anywhere near experiencing it. The poet Sylvia Plath, who died with her head in an oven, said “Is there no way out of my mind?” I get that. On top of the episodes, I found it nearly impossible to leave the house. I always felt like I was swimming upstream.
Now for the good news: I feel fine now. I honestly don’t know why, or if it will last. But there is hope for others if there’s hope for me. My faith is a big part of my recovery, but I’ll leave it at that because it offends some members. Just trust me that you can weather this storm and things really can change. And I care about all of you. #Bipolar 1 Depression GAD OCD PTSD

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How to health anxiety diagnosed?

#Anxiety #HealthAnxiety

Health anxiety is when you spend so much time worrying you're ill, or about getting ill, that it starts to take over your life. It's related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Health anxiety is an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition. It’s also called illness anxiety, and was formerly called hypochondria. This condition is marked by a person’s imagination of physical symptoms of illness.

Or in other cases, it’s a person’s misinterpretation of minor or normal body sensations as serious disease symptoms despite reassurance by medical professionals that they don’t have an illness.

Health anxiety is no longer included in the American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It was previously called hypochondriasis (better known as hypochondria).

Now, people who had been diagnosed with hypochondria might instead be classified as having:

illness anxiety disorder, if the person has no physical symptoms or only mild symptoms

somatic symptom disorder, particularly when the person has symptoms that are perceived as distressing to them or if they have multiple symptoms

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/dealing-with-health-anxiety

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Error in Parenting Issues post

I find the Parenting post really offensive, why dwell completely on negatives, Mighty people seem to be healthier than that post indicates, and there are more positive ways of seeing what issues there are, economics is also an issue, like coming from affluence and so not being accepted for 8 years and enduring the death of a parent and another very old, this is extremely hard to deal with , I follow a faithful life style, yet I am constantly threatened and want to take my life, then it passes, this too shall pass, maybe, nothing is for sure except death and taxes, tell that truth to someone with suicide on their mind, I love to have food on my table, it is an honour, it's more of a cafe with so many personalities visiting, I try to keep on an even keele, but sometimes I fail, I'm often using the icons to pray for help, or stop his anger, it's hard, or hers, it's hard, that's daughter not parent, i came from a good family, I don't know why my life is so valueless, sometimes we can't do much but live moment to moment, it's just hard, mine were older and sick or with health problems or hypochondria most of the time, but that's easier to deal with than a schitzophrenic husband or violent sometimes teen daughter, faith is really important and it is faithfulness weekend, cause that's the Russian Orthodox faith of his fathers, and his mothers whom he loves, he's a good man sometimes, or they wouldn't have let me marry him 15 years ago, I don't think he does drugs, it's just mental illness, and orders all the time, what is one or three lives, tight, Peace

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How to health anxiety diagnosed?

#Anxiety #HealthAnxiety

Health anxiety is when you spend so much time worrying you're ill, or about getting ill, that it starts to take over your life. It's related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Health anxiety is an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition. It’s also called illness anxiety, and was formerly called hypochondria. This condition is marked by a person’s imagination of physical symptoms of illness.

Or in other cases, it’s a person’s misinterpretation of minor or normal body sensations as serious disease symptoms despite reassurance by medical professionals that they don’t have an illness.

Health anxiety is no longer included in the American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It was previously called hypochondriasis (better known as hypochondria).

Now, people who had been diagnosed with hypochondria might instead be classified as having:

illness anxiety disorder, if the person has no physical symptoms or only mild symptoms

somatic symptom disorder, particularly when the person has symptoms that are perceived as distressing to them or if they have multiple symptoms

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/dealing-with-health-anxiety

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How to health anxiety diagnosed?

#HealthAnxiety #Anxiety

Health anxiety is when you spend so much time worrying you're ill, or about getting ill, that it starts to take over your life. It's related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Health anxiety is an obsessive and irrational worry about having a serious medical condition. It’s also called illness anxiety, and was formerly called hypochondria. This condition is marked by a person’s imagination of physical symptoms of illness.

Or in other cases, it’s a person’s misinterpretation of minor or normal body sensations as serious disease symptoms despite reassurance by medical professionals that they don’t have an illness.

Health anxiety is no longer included in the American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It was previously called hypochondriasis (better known as hypochondria).

Now, people who had been diagnosed with hypochondria might instead be classified as having:

illness anxiety disorder, if the person has no physical symptoms or only mild symptoms

somatic symptom disorder, particularly when the person has symptoms that are perceived as distressing to them or if they have multiple symptoms

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/dealing-with-health-anxiety

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