Please Help.. I’m new... Severe anxiety over health

[Clare Young]

Hi all,
I have decided to join as i need help... I have never suffered from any mental health issues but over the past 2/3 weeks i have become extremely irrational about my health. It started just before lock down, I was told i needed to have a rear tooth out due to a condition underneath the tooth called Condesing Ostietis, this was fine but since then i have had many episodes of anxiety worrying that whatever is happening under my tooth is actually very concerning and is probably something more sinister, since then i have developed a lump in my throat (no actual lump but i horrible sensation of a lump that makes swallowing my saliva difficult) eating and drinking is fine. Ive blown it all up so much that I’m not sleeping, worrying so much that i actually have something serious and no matter how rational i was before all this i simply cannot get things into perspective... almost hyperventilating, not being able to make sense of what I’m feeling etc and literally worried I’m going crazy... Is anxiety really giving me all these strange feelings i am worried about having/getting or do i really have something wrong with me..

 

[midnightphoenix]

Hi Clare and welcome

It sounds like your anxiety could be really bad at the moment

 

[shirley u gessed]

It's normal to be concerned about health when you don't have access to the professional required. Lock down is a whole other weird experience on top of that. I would guess that it is your intense focus on what you now think is a problem. If you can, try to move around more, walk, stretch, leg lifts, dance. I know it's hard to even want to, but just try for like 90 seconds.