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I like the idea of exercise and have been thinking about it for a while now. I used to ride my bike everyday at my old place and I felt amazing. Actually, it may have been the healthiest I've ever felt mentally and physically. Just the feeling of well being you get from a bike ride is enough to keep the hypochondria dormant.

Speaking of anxiety, I've been swallowing a lot of air at night the last few nights for some reason. This leads to some serious stomach annoyances, and I basically couldn't get to sleep last night. For some reason I started going over what it could be, and I thought "oh it has to be rabies".

I quickly quashed that idea, but still... Fuck you brain.

and you were just asking how people could possibly be afraid of flying?

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Originally posted by enydo and you were just asking how people could possibly be afraid of flying?

I don't think I asked how, I just said its stupid.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Speaking of anxiety, I've been swallowing a lot of air at night the last few nights for some reason. This leads to some serious stomach annoyances, and I basically couldn't get to sleep last night. For some reason I started going over what it could be, and I thought "oh it has to be rabies". I quickly quashed that idea, but still... Fuck you brain.

I often find myself saying fuck you brain, which makes me feel like I don't even control it.

I've got a pretty disturbing story about hypochondria that I should mention. Right after my remission I kept having all these stomach problems and I started getting very anxious. I scoured the internet for answers and found all kinds of unpleasant potential diseases. My doctor didn't seem very worried, but he passed me through a few tests over the next few months. The first one being an Endoscopy and the other being the famous Colonoscopy, which was surprisingly less disturbing than the Endoscopy. Now for the trippy part: ALL of the symptoms went away the day I got the results saying they couldn't find anything wrong. I am living proof that you can literally make yourself sick with worry. So yeah... Fuck you brain.

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Originally posted by Dj Nacht I often find myself saying fuck you brain, which makes me feel like I don't even control it. I've got a pretty disturbing story about hypochondria that I should mention. Right after my remission I kept having all these stomach problems and I started getting very anxious. I scoured the internet for answers and found all kinds of unpleasant potential diseases. My doctor didn't seem very worried, but he passed me through a few tests over the next few months. The first one being an Endoscopy and the other being the famous Colonoscopy, which was surprisingly less disturbing than the Endoscopy. Now for the trippy part: ALL of the symptoms went away the day I got the results saying they couldn't find anything wrong. I am living proof that you can literally make yourself sick with worry. So yeah... Fuck you brain.

The single best thing for a hypochondria for me is getting the flu. If I am like flipping out (and it usually happens during the winter) and I get the flu, I am like "oh its just the flu!" and as soon as I get over it I am like "OMFG I FEEL AMAZING!"

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby The single best thing for a hypochondria for me is getting the flu. If I am like flipping out (and it usually happens during the winter) and I get the flu, I am like "oh its just the flu!" and as soon as I get over it I am like "OMFG I FEEL AMAZING!"

check pm. I need your expertise.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby I don't think I asked how, I just said its stupid.

but thinking you have rabies because you keep "swallowing air" isn't stupid at all.

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Originally posted by enydo but thinking you have rabies because you keep "swallowing air" isn't stupid at all.

Well it was hard to swallow water, because of the air in my stomach and hydrophobia is a symptom of rabies, and hydrophobia is brought on in rabies victims by an inability to swallow (at least that is what some research suggests). As I had just been camping a week prior and spending a lot of time outside at night, as well as drunk, I figured I could have been bitten by a bat or something.

Now to put this into context I ran this entire thought process through my head in 30 seconds and decided it was stupid and went back to sleep, but it was an actual moment of anxiousness before then.

That must have been a terrible few seconds for you. Glad you shared.

So, I just had this thought, like, what if I had an aneurysm just here and now, and died?

Oh wait, I just thought about that for like 10 seconds and now I'm not scared.

People are scared of flying though? WOW. That's so fucking silly and stupid, how can those people not be having fun like ME? Plus, I mean, we all die anyways so no need to worry right??

It doesn't really matter though, whatever.

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Originally posted by enydo So, I just had this thought, like, what if I had an aneurysm just here and now, and died? Oh wait, I just thought about that for like 10 seconds and now I'm not scared. People are scared of flying though? WOW. That's so fucking silly and stupid, how can those people not be having fun like ME? Plus, I mean, we all die anyways so no need to worry right?? It doesn't really matter though, whatever.

Statistically, flying is one of the safest things you can do.

An aneurysm has statistical basis over a wide population, but the individual chance of it happening to you is an unknown, it is far more sane to be fearful of a random and unpredictable medical condition like that then a widely observable statistical trend like flying on an airliner.

On the other hand, you basically have no control over an aneurysm either, so its not worth being really scared about it. I know, I delt with a really strong fear of them when I was in 3rd grade after a soccer teammate of mine died of one. Every single headache I got scared the crap out of me for like 3 months after that. But I soon realized that if it happens to me there is pretty much nothing I can do about it, so if it happens, well it happens, no point worrying about it.

Same goes for nuclear war. Scared the CRAP out of me in 2nd grade. Instead of being scared I decided to learn every possible thing I could about it and set out to do that in depth. I educated myself and within a year or so my fear of nuclear war was basically non-existent. There is nothing you can do to prevent a nuclear war as an average citizen, so there is no point in being scared of it. If it happens, its going to happen, hope it doesn't, but I am not up at night anymore worrying about the end of the world, because I know first off that it'd be incredibly rare circumstances that lead to it, and if it does lead to it, well thats it. Flash, cinge, blown away (at least you hope, better to die than survive a full on nuclear exchange).

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby but still... Fuck you brain.

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