Hi everyone. since around the beginning of May I've had this thought that I was going to die. I got scared to get into cars and I thought that I had a disease. I got a bit hypochondriac about the stuff but i got over some of it. I've mature from it and i'm all the scared of getting into a car accident or that i have a disease. but THIS really scared me. Now, keep in mind i don't know much about diseases and i'm not very aware of what's involved with some of them. but my dad was talking about how this girl had a brain aneurysm when he went to school with her and she just died. he told me this last night, and i got really scared. I wanna think that it's my anxiety but i'm not sure. I almost couldn't sleep last night and couldn't relax all day today because i kept thinking i would die just randomly. so i finally had the guts to look it up. Now, keep in mind first. about a week or so ago, i was scared that i had a brain tumor. i looked up the symptoms and went hypochondriac a bit. i never got headaches until that point. all i got was tension headaches, and every once and a while, it felt like the pain moved into the back of my eyes. i thought this was all part of the tension headache. so back to me looking up the brain aneurysm. it said that sometimes you just can't tell. or sometimes one of the symptoms was a localized headache, and pain in the back of the eyes. NOW I'M SCARED. My dad thinks i'm crazy and i'm sitting thinking i'm going to die any second! You see, these headaches went away after i convinced myself i didn't have a brain tumor, last week around friday. But now that i know that i had these headaches i'm FREAKING OUT that i just had an aneurysm and i'm dieing. i don't know what to do and my dads at work!
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I need some help!
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Based on all the stuff you've feared, including this "aneurysm", I would say that you have an anxiety disorder. Perhaps you need to speak to a doctor about your axiety, not about aneurysms.
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alright. thank you for replying. i've relaxed a little since i posted this. my anxiety is starting to really anger my dad, which doesn't help anything at all. But when he gets home i'll talk to him about seeing a doctor. you see, once he mentioned that whole thing about the girl that died of an aneurysm. i got really scared. he went to take out the dog and he came back up to my room and he caught me crying about it. i know this really annoys him and i try to explain to him that it's not like i want to be this way. he says that this problem is "bigger than the two of us" and he sent me to bed. i haven't seen him since he said that last night, so i'll talk to him when he gets home from work in about two hours. i just get really scared, you know. i really just panic and get afraid that somethings wrong with me.
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You might want to mention that you get anxiety from other things like cars, accidents, whatever... You probably need to see a therapist to figure out why you are getting all stressed over things like this.