Lads I have Hypochondria. medically diagnosed. I'm medicated

hey try therapy

you're not mentally okay

>>18094682
what kind of therapy. my shrink basically laughed when I told him what was wrong with me and said "what an old mental illness". I thought that was kind of odd. and he said there isn't much to help it. not a lot of people are affected by it.

>>18094688
find a therapist that will help you

or just get over it with sheer force of will (this is how I excised anxiety from my life)

>>18094694
that's what I've been doing these past few years. I've had this all my life. but every once and a while I will get a legitimate pain that freaks me the fuck out and can't be ignored. not too long ago I had and still have serious back pain. thought it was cancer. turned out to be degenerative disc disease. hard to to overcome the anxiety. what did you do?

>>18094714
stopped drinking since it causes rebound anxiety once it depletes your GABA, and just had some constructive introspective moments. anxiety is generally pretty surface level introspection desu, I had to dig deep to figure out what my actual problem was. it's different for everyone.

think about anxiety like a pimple or cyst. the bad feels are the part you can pop or treat with medicine. it can get infected and hurt, like how your anxiety can bubble up and cause problems and influence your decisions. the visible, easily treatable, and most affecting part of a cyst or a pimple isn't what's causing it, it's just a symptom. with anxiety you have to get to the root and excise that shit. it's not easy and sometimes digging everything out can be more painful in the immediate now than the anxiety itself. but it's necessary for anything other than temporary relief