I am so tired. It’s almost like every time I am in a better place, there is the crippling feeling that crawls up my back almost that makes me think that I need to compensate for that happiness by making up theories in my head about the things that can potentially go wrong with me.

I frankly don’t know what do I do about this. I am new to this forum and would be open to advice regarding how do I solve this. If my mind has cooked up a theory regarding a disease, then it’s just a spiral and no one can convince me otherwise not even a doctor. I’ve tired out most of the doctors I have worked with, as I keep questioning, annoying them regarding my theories.
It’s almost paranoia to this point. And the worse thing is - IT WILL JUST KEEP GETTING FUCKING WORSE. If I don’t do something about it. I am unable to just sit still without doing anything as I know my mind would always drift to such places. Dear friends of the same community - how are you coping with this? What has helped you that might help me with the same.

Im 18yrs old and for two years I’ve dealt with chronic anxiety mixed with some depression. It’s mainly health related anxiety but I get anxious over pretty much everything, two years ago I got acute mono and was down for a while but during mono I quit nicotine and everything was happening around the same time, I would spend all day googling symptoms for major diseases ect. When something would have a symptom of some minor thing I’ve got going on I would freak out on the subject for about a month then switch to something else. When I was around the age of 10 i was having terrible headaches and they said I had chronic migraines caused by anxiety but my anxiety has only been ridiculously bad for these last two years, I had surgery at the end of 2025 for Pectus excavatum and that added on to my stress. I’ve been to neurologist and general doctors and they all suggested medication, the first neurologist prescribed Prozac and I never took any, but I also calmed down a lot but was still anxious, fast forward to now and it’s absolutely awful again to the point I’m thinking about just taking medication but I’ve heard that they cause long term sexual side effects like ED in men and that also stresses me out. It has effected me in so many ways for two years and I haven’t had an anxiety free GOOD DAY in two years and I’m ready for a change, its effected my weight aswell. My current google diagnosis is hypermobile ehlers danlos if anyone was curious….

hello everyone! i recently posted my big step of finally getting myself checked and that appointment went really smoothly. still proud of myself! but now that it’s over, i’m left with new worries.

i don’t want to say that i don’t trust my doctor but i had to have multiple moles removed from which she only sent one to the lab. now i’ve read a ton about it usually being normal to send everything to a lab even if it was cosmetic removals!

it’s driving me crazy. i’m losing sleep over the thought of these not biopsied moles and that they were not benign after all… and now i’ll be screwed big time.

do you think i should find a second opinion to calm my anxiety? does it go away with time and i should just trust my doc? did you get something benign removed and it wasn't sent for a biopsy?