Constantly afraid of illness, what should I do?
I'm afraid of a serious illness and I've been to the doctor several times. So far, thankfully, my values are fine, or rather, they only deviate slightly from the norm. However, I'm still worried that I have a chronic infection. Despite several tests, nothing has been detected. I understand if many people don't take it seriously. I'm also undergoing treatment. I've also been having strange, recurring symptoms recently. Most of them have thankfully disappeared, but I still have one symptom sometimes. But now I don't dare go to the doctor anymore because I'm afraid of getting on his nerves. I'm planning on going back for a check-up in two months, hoping that it will calm me down if my values are okay, but I still find it difficult to wait any longer because I sometimes have strange symptoms. I suspect it might be a sore throat because my right throat is slightly swollen, at least that's how it feels when I touch it. I sometimes have a strange feeling in my throat and I have the impression that it's gotten a little stronger. I know that these situations aren't easy. because I worry a lot I don't understand why my psychotherapy isn't helping me I'm wondering what's going wrong in my therapy but I suspect the reason is that unfortunately solutions are hardly ever discussed at least when it comes to the topic of fear and worry because I feel more like I'm talking to a friend 🙁
Hello
It doesn’t sound so good now. You should go to the psychologist as a matter of urgency, because you’re doing your own life to hell.
To get a healthy relationship to the topic of hygiene and to your own health, take a holiday with a multi-day hike. With the tent. I recommend:
The Kungsleden Trail in Sweden. Very easy to go, super landscapes. On and off even with the Öffis easily possible if the northern section of the Abisko- Nikkaluokta goes on, for example
Information here:
https://visitsweden.de/activitaten/natur-outdoor/wandern-in-schweden-ein-abenteuer-von-nord-nach-sud/den-kungsleden-may-eder-wandern/
And here:
https://www.komoot.com/de-de/collection/1131676/kungsleden-in-7-etappen-von-abisko-nach-nikkaluokta
For the somewhat advanced:
The West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island (Canada)
https://www.outdoor-magazin.com/wanderwege/kanada-trekking-auf-dem-west-coast-trail/
On such a hike, you always hurt something, the backpack presses, the shoes, the legs and even. Then your own perception comes back into the lot and focuses on the just essential one. (When do we set up where the tent, how long do we want to go today …) And you learn again that not every cep in your shoulder is equally dangerous.
As a reward there are unique landscapes, in Canada also with a very own animal and plant world. We don’t have a Nordic rainforest here.
And of course the good feeling of having experienced that you cannot book as a package trip.
You’re too good and obviously you’re bored.
This is the ground where the hypochonders thrive.
Why don’t you go around some vegetable gardens for the fall? People will be grateful to you and you, I promise you no time at the beginning of the day to think about the puppies that could possibly lead you up and end up in the evening so firm and ready that you can think of no more than sleep.
Hypochondrie, you should be treated therapeutically.