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    I Am Dying..

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    The author woke up with a slight throat pain and became convinced they had throat cancer after seeing a white patch in their throat. As a hypochondriac, they looked up the symptoms of throat cancer and began experiencing coughing and ear pain. They told their mother who dismissed it as a mouth ulcer. Later that evening, the ulcer disappeared, proving the mother right. The author reflects on how hypochondriasis can take over one's thoughts and push them away from reality into a box of negative ideas about fatal illnesses. It is a serious mental issue that can lead to depression and even suicidal thoughts if left unchecked.

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    I Am Dying..

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    The author woke up with a slight throat pain and became convinced they had throat cancer after seeing a white patch in their throat. As a hypochondriac, they looked up the symptoms of throat cancer and began experiencing coughing and ear pain. They told their mother who dismissed it as a mouth ulcer. Later that evening, the ulcer disappeared, proving the mother right. The author reflects on how hypochondriasis can take over one's thoughts and push them away from reality into a box of negative ideas about fatal illnesses. It is a serious mental issue that can lead to depression and even suicidal thoughts if left unchecked.

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    The author woke up with a slight throat pain and became convinced they had throat cancer after seeing a white patch in their throat. As a hypochondriac, they looked up the symptoms of throat cancer and began experiencing coughing and ear pain. They told their mother who dismissed it as a mouth ulcer. Later that evening, the ulcer disappeared, proving the mother right. The author reflects on how hypochondriasis can take over one's thoughts and push them away from reality into a box of negative ideas about fatal illnesses. It is a serious mental issue that can lead to depression and even suicidal thoughts if left unchecked.

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    I Am Dying..

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    The author woke up with a slight throat pain and became convinced they had throat cancer after seeing a white patch in their throat. As a hypochondriac, they looked up the symptoms of throat cancer and began experiencing coughing and ear pain. They told their mother who dismissed it as a mouth ulcer. Later that evening, the ulcer disappeared, proving the mother right. The author reflects on how hypochondriasis can take over one's thoughts and push them away from reality into a box of negative ideas about fatal illnesses. It is a serious mental issue that can lead to depression and even suicidal thoughts if left unchecked.

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    I am dying...

    I woke up in the morning with a slight throat pain.


    I started feeling its not merely a throat pain.
    What if iam having a throat cancer. No not again, i
    know iam a hypochondriac, so i tried to get rid off such
    thoughts. But i couldn’t resist myself from standing
    infront of the mirror with my mouth wide open.
    Oh god? Iam done there is a white patch in the left side
    of my throat. “Yes its the early stage of throat cancer”.
    I started sweating. I thought about talking to my
    parents. But i remember the last time when i said them
    i have a stomach pain and constipation asked the
    possibility of colon cancer, they made fun of me. But
    this time its different. I can see the cancer directly.
    Anyway i have to conform this, lets ask Dr google,
    Throat cancer symptoms:
     Throat pain(obviously)
     Cough
     Ear pain
    Thank god i dont have neither cough nor ear pain.
    But a few minutes later i started to feel an irritation
    in my throat(everyone will experience an irritation if
    we keep thinking “do i have a tendency to cough”).
    The irritation obviously turned into cough. Ear pain
    might be in the next stage, that i found the cancer in
    a very early stage. I started thinking about my
    medication. Where will consult amid this covid crisis?
    Can we afford the treatment? Oh i cant handle this. I
    must talk to someone. I told my mom, she gave me a
    glass of salt water and said me its just a mouth ulcer
    you fool, just gargle this salt water and it will
    disappear. Oh iam a fool, you dont even know what
    are the symptoms of throat cancer(in my mind). I
    pretend i believed her and i did the gargle while in my
    mind i was thinking about chemo. I lost my appetite
    and i lost interest in everything.
    Guess what would be the end of this story. Yes my
    mom was right! It was just a mouth ulcer and it
    disappeared in the evening ( might be the effect of
    salt water).
    This is my recent experience as a hypochondriac. This
    lockdown period is so hard for me so do other
    hypochondiacs.
    Hypochonriasis is not just a case of negative
    thoughts, it is serious mental issue that will leave us
    in a different place other than reality, which is like a
    box of negative thoughts. There whatever we feeling
    can be a symptom of a fatal disease and we will
    create certain symptoms which we didnt felt so far.
    While in that box we wont listen to anybody even to
    doctors, but only to our negative mind.
    We wouldnt realise our normal life is going upside
    down.We dont want to do our job, dont want to
    follow our daily routines, just thinking about the
    coming painful hospital days, if i survive or not, if not
    what about my family?, how good was the normal
    days back.
    If we are in a state of high stress and anxiety for a
    whole day, it will surely affect our digestion (and its
    aftereffects we will suffer in the toilet next morning),
    we lose our appetite, our blood pressure shoot up,
    we lose our sleep and the list goes on.
    Recurrent occurence of such experiences will leave us
    in a serious mental trauma and push us to a state of
    dipression. In extreme conditions suicidal tendencies
    are common.
    So if you know any one having anxiety about their
    helath and fear of disease and currently going
    through this condition, please dont make fun of
    them. Instead try to make them engaged in any
    activities. They wont be willing, but persuade them
    and give them company. Dont let them, be in that
    box of negative thoughts anymore.

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