Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: the Netherlands
Hypondriac, Depressive!!! Affecting My Life Posted: 12-15-05 20:31pm
Hi,
thanks in advance for reading, but I have
to tell a bit about my past.
Around seven years ago I had my health
completely screwed up by some allergic
disorder that casued me sinusitis, asthma,
repeated infections etc.... I had to stop
doing sports, had to take care too much of
weather changes, living in extremely clean
places etc..... And the worst of all, I
had to quit on my dreams (i quit
university and went home). After some
doctors and more doctros and more doctors
I could not get a clear diiagnosis so I
just decided to research on my own and
live with my problem. Years have passed,
but I became overly obssessed with my
health. Whenever I have a cold that is
becoming infectious, I just know how
painful it is, so I just start surfing in
the internet for hours and hours and hours
looking for remedies, prefereably herbal
or the like... In the beginning of my
problem I even through I had cancer or
aids. Now everytime I get some extra
problem or a different problem I think of
the worse. For two months now I have had
some gastric problems, anmely an ulcer and
gastritis. Have been taking medicine but
still not going well or healing is just
taking forever....
Again im just thinking that it could be
the worse, and I just spend too much time
looking for cancer incidence, and other
related diseases. Im just overly
concerned with this. It is affecting my
life completely. I dont sleep, cannot
study because im thinkiing all the time
about this. My doctor said I have to wait
until january to see if the new treatment
works. I just need some peace of mind,
dunno how to control myself, my anxiety
and the negative thoughts im putting in my
mind about death, etc are just taken over.
I have exams and my thesis coming up, and
this is ruining everything.....
Any thoughts of support.... I appreciate
it...
Vic
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stacylady
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Posted: 12-15-05 21:19pm
Hi... I am so sorry that you are going
through so much pain. I just wanted to
let you know that my 12 year old daughter
suffered daily through horrible stomach
pains caused by stress for 2 years. (she
has been through a lot) I just asked her
for some advice about what she would tell
someone going through the same thing as
she did and in her sweet little voice she
just told me to tell you to "just stop
worrying about it and relax. That's what
I did" this was what she decided after
months and months of doctors and
hospitals, tests and medications. She
was just so tired of nothing helping and
she decided that she would have to try to
help herself.She occasionally still gets
stomach pains but her saving grace was
when she did just as she just told me and
decided that this was not going to comsume
her life and she just wasn't going to
worry about it anymore. And it really did
seem to make them come less and less. I
don't want you to think I am saying for
you to get over it or anything because I
know that you can't but I just thought
that maybe her advice would help you some.
I know that my children teach me
something new everyday and thought this
might help. I hope you are able to get
some help with this.
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vaguayo
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Stacey Posted: 12-16-05 07:56am
Hi,
thanks for the encouraging words. I
really admire your daughter's courage, and
the way she is handling her problem. I
just received a similar email from my dad
today; it gave me relief to think that
even when illnesses seem to be quite bad
or long-lasting, people make it through
them with a positive mind. Today my pain
is quite bad despite the medicine, but
with yours and other people's support I
realize little by little that there are
worse problems than mine, and start
handling mine better.
Thanks again, and if you have any new
advice from children, drop me a line ;).
Btw im a 26 year old guy from ecuador,
living in holland now...
Vic
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stacylady
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Vic Posted: 12-17-05 00:11am
Hi again,
i am glad that you are realizing that
postive thinking can help. I think that
with anything we have going on with our
health there comes a point where we have
to say, "i might have this condition, but
this condition doesn't have me." I have
suffered with major depression for years
and when I finally started thinking this
way I started getting better. I went
from taking 6 different medications to
taking none and although things are still
hard sometimes I haven't felt this good in
a long time. So I am a really big
advocate on postive thinking!! Hope you
are feeling better tonight. (my daughter
is glad that her advice helped you :)
stacy
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stacylady
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Hi Vic Posted: 07-20-07 19:39pm
Hello Vic,
This is Stacy again. I have just been
looking over my old postings and ran
across yours from December of 2005 and
wondered how you are doing. I hope that
you have gotten over all of your ailments
and have been pain free. My daughter has
been doing quite well. She is a teenager
now (13) and is too busy with her friends
and having crushes on boys to let anything
stand in her way right now...ha ha. I
have been experiencing some major health
problems but am being very optimistic and
positive and I think that it is helping.
Well, like I said, I just ran across you
post and was curious as to how you are.
Hope all is well....Stacy
