Saturday, 13 August 2011

Health Anxiety

How do you know whether you are a full blown hypochondriac or if you are genuinely poorly?

Every time I am ill I convince myself I have some disease or serious illness. Rather than presume I have a short lived bug or virus I Google to see if it's something more sinister. I know I'm not alone in this modern day problem. But I don't know how to turn off the inner voice that tells me I must have Leukemia/ Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma/ Anaemia/ Lupus- delete as appropriate. I'm fully aware it's ludicrous. But it doesn't stop me worrying.

I feel so poorly this week. Not the 'got the flu, it'll pass', poorly, but a general malaise. I feel so, so tired, weak, very mild fever, swollen neck glands. I don' t think 'normal' people get this do they? Why do I seem to feel like this every now and again. Completely washed out. Weird.