hypochondria since age 13

[dancingskeleton]

Hey everyone, I'm a 16-year-old girl who has had severe hypochondria for over 3 years now. Every day I google my symptoms over 20 times and diagnose myself with around 5 new diseases every day. My whole life I have been struggling with mental illness. I was diagnosed with OCD at age 6. I also suffered from depression. My therapist also thinks I have a form of ADHD. My main struggles right now are my anxiety, OCD and hypochondria. I have been going to a therapist since I was 6. Sometimes I have good days and those are the days I am the happiest. But unfortunately, that does not last very long. At the moment I have a weird sting on my wrist that I feel every now and then. When I touch or move my arm, the feeling does not get worse. It has really been bothering me. In two days I have an appointment with my psychiatrist to talk about my medication. I have been taking Lexapro for about 3 years now, but my therapist wants me to switch to another medicine that helps more with my anxiety and ADHD or up my Lexapro dose.

I really hope that this forum will help me deal with my anxiety a little

 

[Cuchculan]

The worst thing we can do is look up symptoms. That only makes things worse. Maybe a small challenge to yourself would be not to look up any symptoms. Break that chain.

Medication changes do happen at times for a variety of reasons. Or else the dose can be upped. That is a common one.

As for the stinging wrist? I assume you can flex it? Move it up and down and the likes. No swelling or anything like that. Could have simply been the way you were sleeping last night. Or even at times as we sit, we support ourselves with our hand bent over. Might cause a bit of discomfort for a day or so. But I think if it was anything serious it would be hurting a lot more. Movement would be very sore. So would pressing on it. If you have none of these I would not worry about it. It will probably be gone by tomorrow. Slight strain. Something we most probably have all had at one point or another.

 

[dancingskeleton]

my wrist pain feels like there is a splinter in my wrist, but I don't see it.