Health Anxiety - Let’s Laugh In Its Face!
They say laughter’s the best medicine, right? I wonder if that works with health anxiety and other anxiety disorders too? I guess it’s not something we do much of when we have severe anxiety all day long.
I got to thinking about this subject because I came across a video on YouTube - a funny one, and it’s all about health anxiety. Take a look at it here:
It’s really funny, and it reminds me of myself so much. In the past, when my anxiety disorders were at their worst, my health anxiety was record-breaking. I had every disease and illness you can think of, and a few you couldn’t!
And maybe I even made some phone calls to my doctor a lot like the ones in the video above…Maybe!
Anyway, the video made me laugh, and I thought you might like to see it too. I definitely think it must help to laugh at ourselves and our anxiety, whether we’re going through it right now, or even if it’s something that’s in our past.
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2 Comments on Health Anxiety - Let’s Laugh In Its Face!
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Tanya on
Thu, 25th Dec 2008 2:32 pm
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Mary on
Mon, 29th Dec 2008 4:36 pm
Hi everyone! I just wanted to share a couple of things with you. First of all, thank you Alex for this funny video and for what you are doing to help us :o)
Anxiety does not kill you but it makes you feel that life is sometimes less worth living it. Life becomes sort of limited and also, in my case, I lack of energy which prevents me from doing many things I’d like to do or I used to do. They were perfectly normal things that most people do on a daily basis but for “anxiety sufferers” they seem like climbing up a high mountain.
On the other hand, “anxiety sufferers” may learn to live with all the so called “normal symptoms” but we should remember that “anxiety sufferers” can also be sick sometimes and at that point, we may think that what we feel are normal symptoms caused by anxiety, whereas they could be serious and we may neglect them, so I don’t intend to be dramatic but I think this may be an issue and we should be alert but try not to panic too much.
Many times, people look at us in a way that I don’t like, as if we were acting in a play. It would be different for them if we had a broken leg, which they can see, Unfortunately, anxiety, for those who don’t know what it is, looks like an abstract thing and they are unable to understand how we feel.
What I less like of all this is feeling helpless although there’s is hope. Sometimes I fell really strong and sometimes I feel quite the opposite, devastated, overwhelmed…, as if my life belonged to anxiety.
All the best.
Take care.
I’m addressing this to Tanya. I really related to your blog about the anxiety video. It was so true to my own life it scared me! I also relate to your statement about people regarding us in a way we don’t like. So many well-meaning, otherwise loving people in my life (including my husband) have told me to “snap out of it.” It’s funny how anxiety can zap so much energy from a person. Things that would tend to make a “normal” person tired, such as a glass of wine, actually give me energy, because they take away some of the anxiety.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and thank you Alex for posting the video. It’s nice to know I’m not alone. Time to get ready for my counseling appointment!
Take care all.
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