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[Angie162]

Is there such a thing as a mental illness hypochondriac?  I tried googling it, but found little results.
Any feedback would be appreciated.

[bowla004]

Yes there is a such thing. That is my main anxiety that has made me house bound sometimes. always think i have a disease that the doctors haven't found yet. I have wasted all this money on test and even the doctors say Im perfectly healthy but im weak all the time so thats what scars me, and sure enough i get on google look up the symptoms and i actually think im dying. It got so bad that my husband had to call out from work one day and sit with me so i wouldn't look up anything on google. Then i started thinking about it i have had everything from ovarion cancer to a brain tumor in my mind and think of how ridiculus i sound and how much money and doctors time i wasted with all of this. It is so hard for us with anxiety to accept that our physical symptoms our anxiety. This is my opinion i don't think Hypocondiacs are suicidal if anything their afraid of dying.

[SarahEH]

I've had the mental health anxiety - I've never suffered from anything like suicidal thoughts or anything, but recently I've been afraid that one day I might. Sometimes my emotions just feel all wrong - things I like make me feel scared or weird, for example - and I worry I've got some emotional or deep mental problem that I just don't know what to do about. I think it is just another form of health anxiety. Mine goes in cycles, and when I have the MH anxiety I don't feel physical symptoms; then when that dies down, I'll start feeling physical symptoms and worrying about them again... @_@ It never stops!

[johanni]

Very eloquently put.

[be still my beating heart 13]

Well said!!

[JSGeare]

Friends - it is all about ... the TRUTH. If ever there were a class of people obsessed with knowing the truth, it is we. It is just my opinion, but what I believe lies at the root of our discomfort is an inability to -or at least, a great discomfort with- relying on DENIAL as a means of coping. The questioning, the doubts, the uncertainties, the demands for verification, are all about wanting to know the truth. The truth about ourselves, the destiny and fate of our species, the end result for us as individuals. It is a blessing -and it is a curse. We see what others do NOT see, or refuse to see. And the reason for this is that we have, through experience, learned that what was presented to us as truth -is really NOT.

This does not mean we are correct -it only means that it is our focus.

So the question is, where do we go from here?

We have only each other.

[be still my beating heart 13]

I cannot say that I experience the "mental health anxiety", although I do experience the "health anxiety".  At one point I worried constantly, I mean 24-7-365, that I had some disease or disorder that they weren't able to detect, that it was the cause of all of my symptoms.  That was a while ago and those thoughts come to me only occasionally now.  I do not think that you are "reaching" when you label what you experience as "mental health anixety" because most of us here worry about our bodies being defective to some degree or the other.  My anxiety focuses on my heart while yours is focused on your mind.  Please remember the most common mental anxiety/panic symptoms are "fear of dying" (applies to me), and "fear of going crazy".  Even though we are worried about different things we are still basically fighting the same battle.  I hope this helps you and that you felt well today!


Cori

[Angie162]

Thank you for responding.  What I mean is does anyone else ever feel that they worry about other mental disorders to the point that they need the dr. to convince them that they do not have them?  Would that be considered a mental illness hypochondriac?  Or is that just anxiety and OCD?  I know that I should not google so much, but there are times when I will be on a site and it will give characteristics of say schitzophrenia and the first thought that pops in my head is oh my god, I may have schitzophrenia, even though I really don't have the symptoms...sometimes it just seems to "fit".  Does anyone else experience this?

[johanni]

Sure there is!About everyone on this forum,including myself,are hypochondriacs, to some extent.By definition,hypochondriasis is a mental dissorder.Look it up on "wikipaedia".But please do NOT google symptoms you think you may have.
Hope this helps,
Dimi.

[Angie162]

Has anyone else ever felt they were "mental illness hypochondriac"?  I hope it is not just me...if anyone else has had these thoughts, please responds:-)

[JSGeare]

Well, if there wasn't, there IS now -you've just named it!