I now recognise myself in the first patient, after a very high cholesterol reading last year sent me into a spiral of anxiety and obsessive research I’ve recently been dialling back the constant checking and aiming for more balance in my life, it’s not easy but it’s not a way I want to live anymore the stress was draining the joy from my life and probably making my risk higher!
Thank you, Debra. I think many of us recognize ourselves somewhere along that spectrum once health anxiety enters the picture. The difficult part is that the search for certainty can slowly begin to take over daily life without our fully noticing it. Finding some balance again is not easy, but it sounds like you’ve become very aware of that shift, which matters a great deal.
I now recognise myself in the first patient, after a very high cholesterol reading last year sent me into a spiral of anxiety and obsessive research I’ve recently been dialling back the constant checking and aiming for more balance in my life, it’s not easy but it’s not a way I want to live anymore the stress was draining the joy from my life and probably making my risk higher!
Thank you, Debra. I think many of us recognize ourselves somewhere along that spectrum once health anxiety enters the picture. The difficult part is that the search for certainty can slowly begin to take over daily life without our fully noticing it. Finding some balance again is not easy, but it sounds like you’ve become very aware of that shift, which matters a great deal.