A Bad Association...
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| Fri, 02-09-2007 - 12:16pm |
Hello All. I need some advice here. When I first started having generalized anxiety 2.5 years ago, it was basically 3 months of feeling horrible mentally every morning, very nervous, out of control, and just plain BAD, as you all know and have felt. One other thing was constant nausea. So much that the docs ran many tests to make sure stomach was acting up due to anxiety and not something else. All tests came back fine. I understand that and believe that.
HOWEVER...my brain has clearly made an association between nausea and anxiety. So ever since, any time I get nauseous from anything I automatically think ANXIETY IS COMING....like nausea triggers my anxiety is what I am saying. The good old doomed feeling. Well, sometimes I eat some mints (have found that altoids help) and I can get past it as long as nausea passes fast. Once it is gone, I am usually ok. Well, this week has been kind of an anxious week (dealing with derealization but getting past that now) and I was doing better but last night I visited my cousin who had a stomach virus last weekend he told me. Well, he has been better for a few days now but his 2 kids got it like 2 days ago he said and were puking and all that mess. So, I was at his house for like an hour and was tense the whole time. The kids of course were bouncing around and playing like they were all better and wanted to get all up in my face and stuff (just being kids). Now I am freaking...I cannot handle getting the stomach flu, not with the way nausea affects causes my anxiety. So of course today I have been too hyper aware of myself thinking I have some nausea or that it is coming...I am probably causing the nausea by worrying. Ugh. I feel like I am stuck. I know worrying will not stop it if I am going to get it anyway (the flu), in fact worry probably tears my immune system down even more. See, I know this is stupid but I cannot stop!!
Kim

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I can't take the Pepto either. It actually nauseates me more. In fact, I posted in the *coping tips & tricks* folder under *this 'n that* that mint relaxes the muscle that keeps your stomach acid down & may cause heartburn.
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