health anxiety again

While it is wise to be aware of how you are doing physically, it is actually not helpful to pay close attention to your body at all times.   This is because your body naturally fluctuates during the day and at night, and overtime.   Thus noticing every little change provides very little useful information. And worse - any change that is noticed is worried about , and as worry increases, physical changes and symptoms tend to get worse, and as this happens, checking and monitoring increases even more.   In other words, checking and monitoring your body feeds into the vicious cycle of health anxiety. A question for you to think about :   How much reassurance would it take to make you stop worrying about your health ? It may be difficult to come up with a precise answer.   This is because seeking reassurance is a strategy that doesn't work well in the long term. No amount of reassurance is enough to convince you in any lasting way that nothing is wrong.   Remember the purpose of helping you to learn to cope with your health anxiety is not to make the symptoms disappear - it is to help you become less worried about your health.   CBT is a talking therapy focused on helping a person change their destructive and unhelpful patterns of thinking. I feel you would strongly benefit from seeking out therapy to help you learn how to manage your health anxiety. Big breath and know you are going to be OK. Kindly, Kitt

  I think we both need a different Dr's opinion and tx. I can understand how anxiety can creep in when anyone has a skin issue. It's like what came first? The chicken or the egg? Personally I think skin issues cause anxiety and not so much the other way around. Autoimmune diseases just can make you nuts ! However there are many people who can give us some great insight about how to distract ourselves . This is a great website.

thanks guys. it is scary. that what i was thinking . that it was the antibiotics since they had me drinking alot. i drank 3 different types of antibiotics the past couple of months. i hate that all things just accumulate and i start thinnking the worst. why itchiness accompany with all my other symptoms. the lump  in my armpit. idk how the doctor mised it and said it was just me when clearly i can feel it. i did start excersizing today and felt a bit better. i also been drinking this tea that aunt gave me to detoxify my body. i googled it, (im thinking thats ok .lol) and they have good reviews on it. its called calli tea by sunrider. it is very soothing. but idk hopefully its nothing bad. i am only 19 and it sucks to see how everyone seems happy and i want to be that way to. i know i let my health go, since i am obese, but know ive seen that deseases are scary and i havve to take care of myself, hopefully its not to latte. my fammily has been very supportive so thats good. as for my friends i think i am embarraseed to talk about my problems. but ill see.

my mom says i should wait a month to go to the doctor since i have been going alot these past months. idk any advice.