I became hypochondriac after a miscarriage

[Ericka]

Hello everyone, first of all forgive my grammar , english is not my first language.

I have just started this year to deal with health anxiety, I have been diagnose with anxiety before, I had cognitive behavioral therapy and medical treatment and it worked quite well.

But on march of this year I had a miscarriage (my first pregnancy) and 2 weeks after that the pandemic set here in Europe. My miscarriage recovery was very hard and long and it happened while we were in lock down.
It was ass if all the work and treatment I've done was thrown away, my anxiety used to be triggered by social situations but now I panic and stress about what else could be wrong with my health, I have always been healthy so I never thought I could have a miscarriage.

Now I google (I know is wrong) every symptom, pain, mole, etc. I'm specially obsessed with my reproductive health and breasts, I have examined my breasts so much that now one hurts and so now I'm scare I may have Breast Inflammatory Cancer...
I was the kind of person that hardly ever went to the doctor and now I want to get EVERY SINGLE PART OF MY BODY EXAMINED.

This is no way of living, I prefer my social anxiety to THIS health anxiety.
Please if anyone has any advise or reassuring words I would appreciate it.

 

[Joshua1]

The best thing to do is keep a level head. You are making things worse, by constantly checking and "hoping" you have something. I believe law of attraction to a degree. If a person is in a car and keep thinking they will crash. One day they will, because the mind will adjust to that.

 

[Cuchculan]

To me, this is you thinking it was your fault that you miscarried. That there must be something wrong with you. That sort of things can just happen. I know a person who miscarried 4 times and then had a healthy baby. There doesn't have to be anything wrong with you. Just nature and the way things can go. it is sad that you did miscarry. but there is no need to blame yourself and your own body for this. Which is what I think you might be doing. With such a thing you still go through the normal grief process. But you also ask questions about why such a thing happened to you. Your mind will make the answers up for questions you have no answer to. Most times in a negative way. Accept it happened and it was not your fault. Your body is fine. There is nothing wrong with it at all. Deal with the loss. Then you can begin to move forwards.