Sharna Neale
Joined February 2019
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What It's Like Living with Hypochondria
I can remember the very first instance in which I started to worry incessantly about my health and about death. I was watching a TV show and the main character had been diagnosed with a severe, terminal brain tumor. From that point onward, I obsessively worried about whether I had one, too. I would Google the symptoms: Headaches I have that, memory problems I forget what I was doing the other day, and fatigue I'm always tired. I would stay awake for nights on end worrying about not waking up in the morning and succumbing to this cancerous brain tumor I was so convinced I had. The only way I could sleep was by tiring my mind, with all the excessive worrying, and I had no other option.
By Sharna Neale5 years ago in Psyche