RockSolidGuy89
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Are you frozen in fear all day long, rigid and tense, thinking about every step, swallow, chew, word uttered, hand movement etc, waiting for every twitch or cramp or bite - or do you just think of your symptoms if and when they arise?do you notice that you get symptoms soon after reading about them?do you think about your "condition" the first moment after you awake?Is the fear of developing some bad disease as a result of these twitches/symptoms always there? I am curious about the relationship between our levels of anxiety and our body awareness plus the extent of our obsession with health issues among twitchersPersonally and I have said this before, I think there are many many more twitchers out there than we think, yes there are 4,000 members here but that's a drop in the ocean, most twitchers don't even know what a fasciculation is and there are countless worried twitchers on health boards across the net and I am talking about bodywide twitchers here so I would argue that while neurologists would say that it is relatively rare to twitch above the knee - I would say instead that it is relatively rarely reported because most people just get on with their life as the twitches have a negligible effect on their everyday activities. How dangerous is our obsessive need for research? I am ultra-aware of my mouth area now, all swallows, words etc. and my guess is if i had never read accounts about bulbar als then i wouldn't be so obsessively focused thereI let this fear go last year after 2 or 3 months of intense worrying and it came back about a month ago - what is it about me and some of you, no doubt, that refuse to let this fear go despite rational information pointing us elsewhere?so perhaps people can post their 5 rules to beat the fear1. do not google your symptoms - just don't do it - the information is so unreliable and subjective that the overancious mind can make some tenuous connection to some rare secondhand account, do not feed the fear2. get busy, during your moments of intense anxiety and worrying, try just try to focus your mind on something else, it's difficult but give yourself tasks to do, anything is better than the idle mind, so mow the lawn or wash the dishes or go to the movies or whatever3. train yourself to relax - there are a million ways to do this from meditation to psycocalistenics to qigong to yoga to mindfulness but you have to approach this stuff with an open mind and have the right environment to do it - it's about being able to train the mind not to automatically fear the worst and instinctively swarm all over that rare possibity - we have got to rewire our brains to think mroe positively and rationally and it takes work 4. diet and exercise, more exercise and more healthy food - this is the most commonplace health and wellness advice for a reason, you don't have to kill yourself training for a marathon go on some exteme diet but just try to make improvements here5. death - think about it, what are you afraid of? talk about it - deal with your fears based around mortality, we all die - get used to it, it will happen and accept you have no control over how it happensI have not succeeded in beating the fear completely yet and am still working on a few of the points abovefor those who are struggling, I'd ask them to analyse why they are in such fear and for those who have beaten the fear i'd appreciate some feedback on how they did it, the more specific the better