My Mental Breakdown & Experience with Health Anxiety

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I have not had an issue with health anxiety, but I do suffer from depression. It's not easy to open up about mental illness. People still look at me like I'm weird because I don't take medicine for this depression. Cognitive therapy has helped me tremendously.

Thank you for sharing about this! I’ve struggled with this for almost my entire life and I had no idea it was an actual thing. I thought I was just paranoid and alone! Ugh. I feel so seen and validated right now, and I have some great tips to help me finally work through some of my struggles. Blessings to you as you continue to grow and heal.

I found that completely changing my diet and Moving to a peaceful place (I know not always possible) helped me so much, Mindfulness too is a great help I don't think about my health as much as I used to so there is hope...I believe it is all about life changes and keeping everything simple and slow...good luck to all who are currently suffering❤

Thank you so much for sharing your experience, I broke down today and I’m so glad to know I’m not alone. I’m proud of you, keep going❤

Wait until you get kids, I worry about mine all the time ;🤦‍♀️

Thank you for sharing your experience. I feel huge anxiety over developing Alzheimer’s disease in my later years after caring for two very close family members who had the disease and had to go into nursing homes. The fear is all-consuming sometimes.

Thank you so much for this video Maddie! It’s so comforting to know that there is other people out there feeling the same way I feel..it makes me feel less crazy! ❤

Thank you :)

Bravo for sharing this video!! I haven't had quite the same thing but we all have our unique struggles and somehow our brains convince us that we're the only ones. A video like this helps you see that your struggles are not as unique as you thought, and that is a very valuable realisation.

Thanks for sharing this. My health anxiety has lasted over 45 years due to traumatic experiences as a teenager. I still struggle now at 65, even after councelling in the past, but this video really helped.❤

I appreciate your thoughts and experience! Overall, the fear and anxiety I’ve experienced has been caused by stress and lack of faith. The health anxiety for me has been real this past year and I believe most of my issues were caused by stress. I believe in God and His son, Jesus Christ. The more that I have surrendered to Him and relied on those around me I have experienced more peace of mind and decrease in symptoms. i don’t have to bear every burden because He will! I prayed for guidance, made diet changes and got rid of excess things in my life (sort of a minimalist mindset). I also tried to slow down - driving, walking, in general just slowed down and quit rushing. It’s hard to do that in todays world, but it really has helped. I’m not completely over fear and anxiety but trust and hope in the Lord to care for me. ❤

Thank you for sharing your experience- It means so much. 🤍

Thank you for speaking openly about this. I've been diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder and depression. Sometimes I still feel guilty about getting ill because I was raised to be too strong and independend. Luckily I've been able to go to therapy and starting to come to terms with being vulnerable and imperfect (since that's just a part of being a human being). These kind of videos help me to remember that I'm not alone and it's ok not to be okay :). Maybe we are even braver because we confront our issues and talk about them?

The trouble with mainstream media is that they put the fear out on purpose along with the government pseudoscientists. I did a lot of research at the time and decided that with all the lies about viruses put out there that I would no longer watch tv, news etc and just live my life. I never got the jibby jab ( as a vegan I don’t take allopathic medicine, use lots of herbs and spices) never stayed in, met up with my friend for dog walking and lots of nature walks, never sanitised ( my immune system is there for a reason and nothing wrong with soap and water), never masked ( fresh air is good for you); I couldn’t believe how gullible people were. It’s my life and I won’t be controlled by governments as much as I am able. I do suffer from depression and anxiety as my husband died when he was 42, and my daughter has the same gene and had a tumour removed a few years ago. My other daughter was told she would go blind when she was 15 by a junior doctor at Moorfields in London, and she has gone through 5 horrendous years, being suicidal, and utterly lost. But she has finally reached out with the specialists in rare diseases and hopefully will get the help she needs, she also has adhd, and autism. So life does throw a lot of challenges, and my way of dealing with it all is mainly focusing on the good, being in nature, and allowing myself to feel sad . I did have cbt which helped. I write things down as well. Keep in contact with friends as I did go through a period of isolating myself. I’m not good at asking for help either and have mostly got through on my own. But my friends and family wanted to be there for me as a fairly young widow and I did let them in sometimes. I still feel alone 20 years after my husband died, but force myself to keep seeing my friends and family. Life is really hard at times, but we only get one life and I have to be here for my children even though they are grown up now.

I relate so much to a lot of this. I don't have health anxiety, but I have a form of OCD. I will become certain that something bad is going to happen to my loved ones. It's gone through worse and better phases, getting to points of panic attack in the past. Understanding what it is has been the only thing to set me down a path of resolving my issues, at least as much as I can.

I often see it as reminding myself that I don’t want to have wasted my life worrying about things and waiting for something bad to happen.

Hmm I don´t think I have healthy anxiety. I usually see myself as unbendable, really. 😅 However, this has made me think about my own feelings of late. I lost my mom at the start of the year due to COPD. She had been in increasingly worse health for years and eventually passed away from a failed lung transplant. I kinda feel like I´ve lived with the impending death of my mother for so long, that I immediately think of the worst when there might be something wrong. I mean, I went to the vet because my dog had a very upset tummy because I was so afraid of losing her. 🤷‍♀

Thanks for sharing Maddie, your a very powerful voice in a crazy world ❤️

You're describing my experience to T. I've had it in 2019, I am taking medication since then and I am so thankful for them, as they gave me my life back. Before I was one of those people thinking whoever takes antidepressants are weak, well now I know they can be a life saver.

Thank you so much for speaking openly about this.
I suffered so much anxiety over covid, OCD over hand washing, cleaning everything that came into our home etc.
I know it was made worse through a past experience where someone I was close to died through a extremely rare and hard to diagnose illness and for me the fear is how it effects those left behind, ofcourse I do not want to be ill or in pain but more frightening is the thought of how it would effect my family.

Thank you again for opening up and normalising these conversations, wishing you the best with seeking further help, I hope it works well for you. X

I really appreciate this video 🧡 and you should feel very proud for using your influence and platform to talk about this!
I have had a crazy few years of dealing with OCD, existential anxiety, depression and an overwhelming fear of dying and others dying as well as emetophobia. I heard something once when I was at my lowest and feeling completely isolated which was ‘mental health can make you feel isolated, but it’s actually the biggest community on earth’ even hearing this made everything feel much less intense. There are so many of us on this planet that there is a huge possibility that someone is going through exactly what you are and finding strength to battle it too. Therapy has helped and so has opening up to family and friends, support and love is crucial. And if you’re reading this and going through the same, things WILL get better (I remember this phrase didn’t mean anything to me once, and now I see it from the other side!) we are constantly changing, growing and evolving and things may seem heavy right now but give it time 🧡🧡

I am the same even at the age of 65 I had a breakdown about 30 years ago , you never get over it , but learn to live with it , anxiety never goes away but I mange it ,by trying to do the things I love ❤ xx

Don't forget there is a lot going on in the world so don't just think it's you hope that helps and yes It does help that u opened up now I know its not just me either thank u for sharing.

Awww hope you feel better we love you so much lovely! Xoxo you are perfect! One day at Time And gratitude has helped me!

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❤ ❤ ❤ great advice it is a multi faceted cure or management plan! Well Done

I think maybe the word you were looking for was “disassociation”? It’s kinda like when your mind detaches from your body / reality

Thank you for putting yourself out there and sharing. I grew up with a parent with a very debilitating auto immune disease and have struggled with health anxiety off and on since my early teens. The health anxiety is typically around that specific auto immune disease, however it can manifest over different things. You’re not alone! I’m so glad that you got help. It is so frustrating that there is very little discussion related to health anxiety on the internet. Hopefully this opens the door for health anxiety discussions and support surrounding this.

Good morning to you

Thank you for sharing. We really have to be careful with social media because their goal is to keep us scrolling and one way to do that is to show us content that upsets us. So the reason you are seing so much content about people being sick is because the AI has learned that it upsets you. It is really messed up but sadly, that is how it works and I think we need to be aware of that!

I feel you. I also have health anxiety. It started after I needed a major heart operation 16 years ago. Unfortunately anxiety has similar symptoms to heart problems and I find it hard to distinguish. So I always do a ‘ it’s just anxiety….. but what if it isn’t?’ I have to believe it is anxiety. I take a breath, look at the facts. Journalling and meditation helps me so much

I’m much better than I used to be but it’s still hard. I don’t think it ever goes away properly xxxxx