Always Thinking The Worst

[Panic57]

I understand the feeling of assuming the worse is always going to happen, especially when it comest to health. It never fails that you start suspecting problems because you have to guess at it, since the majority of the problems happen where you can't see them. I don't like online doctor sites because they will get anyone with a wifi connection and time. So I don't put much weight on those sites.

 

[nicky.bada]

I was the same exact way for many years, no joke. I felt like something was always wrong with me and I was sure something serious must be wrong with me. I mean, look at the world everyones sick and dying. It is terrifying. Over time though, after a few doctors visits and blood tests the thought started to become sillier and sillier. Very strong illness' such as cancer, or something that is life threatening like heart issues would show very obvious signs to any medical professional who has looked and tested me. Yeah there is always a chance that it will occure, but with how often we go to the doctor and how well we pay attention to ourselves it would be caught in the earliest stages and you could easily defeat it! That really helped me have some confidence in my health. Just try to eat moderatly well and keep this in mind and everything will be alright, I promise.

 

[justsayyes]

If this isn't me to a T then i don't know what is. Lol. I do think of the worst possible outcome all the time, i just can't help it. In a way, i think it's better than to be positive but be let down massively if things go south.

 

[kelden]

You expect the worst like some kind of bad omen oracle. Bad things may happen for several arbitrary reasons, but I'm afraid nothing will change even if you can anticipate the worst. If you can't help it but always thinking the worst, try to be prepared for those things too.

 

[Aree Wongwanlee]

Before, I was rather the opposite. Whenever I felt unwell, I just took some rest and became fine again. I refused to go to see a doctor. My wife is usually very exasperated with my behavior. I don't even want to take medicine. However, now that I am very much older, and after having spent time in hospital, I go to see the doctor at the earliest opportunity. And I take my medicine very religiously. I think it's probably because I don't feel that my body is as strong and as resilient any more. I need more than just rest to recover from any illness.

 

[aimeepoo]

I used to constantly worry about my health all the time when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I think a lot of people who have anxiety issues do this. I think that being obsessive is a way to "calm" their anxiety somehow. In all honestly it only makes our anxieties worse. But I think that by you not looking up any symptoms online that you are taking the first step to making sure that you can get over this obsessive thinking.

 

[thecorinthian]

Let me guess, you go on WebMD all the time before didn't you? Symptom checker? I've found that friends with idiosyncracies do these sometimes as well as I in the past. It didn't help me at all as it just made me think of all the possible diseases I can have instead of going to a medical professional. Separate yourself from that laptop, computer or smartphone my friend and start focusing on good positive things rather than everything that can go wrong.

 

[SirJoe]

You expect the worst like some kind of bad omen oracle. Bad things may happen for several arbitrary reasons' date=' but I'm afraid nothing will change even if you can anticipate the worst. If you can't help it but always thinking the worst, try to be prepared for those things too.[/quote']
I agree with you 100%, not knowing what is happening to you can increase your anxiety infinitely. Fortunately we have a great resource that can really help us. Before the invention of the internet it was much more difficult.

 

[djordjem87]

Always thinking the worst never got anyone better. I was amongst those and recently I realized that we are what our minds are. That is not just a saying. It is real because we do affect our will and our conscious mind but we have usually no effect on the unconscious being in us. I discovered that by auto-suggestion we can control our unconscious self and I can vouch for that. If we just take an effort and say in a very low voice but very confident that we are going to be okay and everything we'll be just fine we are making the first step towards that thought become a reality. I convinced myself that I will win money on sport bets and I guessed the whole Premier League. It is not easy to guess two draws. I understand this as my subconscious mind giving me the info about things I know but I forgot in the process. I was sure that Southampton and Sunderland will draw and basically everything else I guessed right.

 

[17emilyhalko]

Don't worry about it as much! Stressing over it will make you sadder and sicker. Slow it down. I'm in a similar boat as you. I have very bad gastrointestinal problems and have been searching for three years for answers. For the first two of those years, doctors were in my life, and quite frankly they never helped me a bit. All they would tell me is, "drink more water" "eat more fiber!" "exercise!" Well, I did all of those things at the time! That obviously wasn't my problem, but they wouldn't listen to me that something was wrong because I was young. All the doctors did was charge me horrible bills! I was constantly in and out of the hospital with severe intestinal pain. They did tests on me, but nothing came back as positive. They eventually gave up, and I gave up on them. Any advice that they gave me made me feel worse.


Well, I started to listen to my own body and I've started to recover. In my opinion, you know your body better than any doctor, but if you feel that something is wrong, its still good to check in with them and express your concerns to make sure that you don't have a very severe problem or anything.

 

[Ashley0323]

I have always been this type of person. Even when my hopes are at the highest peak, I will always think the worst, or think the worst is yet to come. I think its because its what I am used to. Seems like things never go right for me, even since I was a child so its a normal thing for me. I am trying to work on that though, and trying to raise my positive attitude a bit!

 

[TheViper]

Let me tell you how hard it was to simply stop researching stuff online. The funny thing is researching did provide some sense of comfort as it let me rationalize what something could be other than the worst thing. Now, I'm a lot better with that sort of thing and stay way from looking things up unless something new pops up. I can't move past the not worrying about the worst thing. The truth is I don't think I ever will truly get past that as I've always been a worrier or certain things. Now, I'm just more obsessed with being worrying about some health issues.

 

[tinnie]

Not googling your symptoms is the best thing you can do. But it's super hard. I always google stuff in hope of finding out, that my symptoms can be caused by something minor and easily treatable. But that's never what you find. The only info that screams at you on the internet is, that you're gonna die a painful death and it's already too late to do something about it. If all of my symptoms I've researches were truly what the internet said, I would have probably been dead a couple of times.

 

[kgord]

I think always thinking the worst is kind of an ingrained habit, and may partially be genetic as well. However, you can likely retrain your brain to think the best instead of the worst. It can only help to think positively, there are so many things that are just minor, and they get built up in our head as something major. Try not to do that to yourself at all cost, Even if you have to stop yourself from googing and obsessing about your problems, it may well be worth it.

 

[tinnie]

However' date=' you can likely retrain your brain to think the best instead of the worst.[/quote']
Do you have any experience with this? It would certainly be helpful to think more positively, but a lot of the time it seems more natural and easy for me to be negative.

 

[cluckeyo]

That reminds me of my parents. They are extremely negative thinkers. I am a very positive thinker, so this drives me up the wall. I think that is a habit that one can fall into. I think habits can be changed. You are making your life needlessly miserable by allowing yourself to think this way. Life can be amazing and wonderful. But it can't be if you have a negative attitude. Instead, there will just be problems to worry about. You could try making out a gratitude list. Write down all the things you can think of that you are thankful for. Stop thinking about the negatives!

 

[rz3300a]

That reminds me of my parents. They are extremely negative thinkers. I am a very positive thinker' date=' so this drives me up the wall. I think that is a habit that one can fall into. I think habits can be changed. You are making your life needlessly miserable by allowing yourself to think this way. Life can be amazing and wonderful. But it can't be if you have a negative attitude. Instead, there will just be problems to worry about. You could try making out a gratitude list. Write down all the things you can think of that you are thankful for. Stop thinking about the negatives![/quote']
Well I really wish that it were this easy. I do agree with you though, to an extent, that it is a habit that can be changed. That said, though, I think that it takes a lot of work, and probably some therapy, to get to that point. You are talking about a lifetime of negative thinking, most often at least, and that is not something that can just be reversed on a whim. I would like to think that with hard work and dedication, and certainly a good amount of support, you can overcome the negative thoughts and focus on happy things. Interesting stuff, and thanks for sharing.

 

[explorerX7]

Health consciousness should be an integral feature in anyone's life. However, It should be a means of promoting ourselves to try to maintain the most positive attitudes which seek to maintain a healthy lifestyle as much as we can. It should not lead us into a state of worry which may cause us to be living constant fear of contracting one disease or the other. We should realize that we have no real control over us contracting many of the critical diseases, therefore, what we should be doing, is to seek to not let our habits contribute to the contracting of these diseases and if any should come, we should be prepared to battle it as best as we can.

 

[misszerable]

I also tend to expect the worst when it comes to my health, and this was magnified when my Dad died two years ago from cancer and my mom died much earlier. It's like when I passed my mom''s death age, I've always felt that all the years after that are just bonuses. Ha! But though I expect the worst, it has a positive effect on me. Instead of worrying about my health, I would do a lot of reading on diet, nutrition, and exercise and anything sensible that could help me extend my life and stay at the pink of health. Whenever I do something positive about my health, I feel great and that helps a lot.