LovingMyBoys
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I wish everyone here the best, I am greatful for the help I have received! That being said, I just want to warn everyone to be carful how your are getting your "help"!!!! While I was in the midst of my "freakout" I thought being on here 24/7 and talking to other hypochondriacs off the internet was helping me. It took almost a year for me to realize it was only keeping me in this funk. My counselor pointed out numerous times how this was not beneficial. While many of us think we have found information that reassures us we are fine, for some reason (part of the health anxiety curse) we continue to search.....hoping to find more reassurance.......this is when we search and search and accidentally run across stories that set as back even further (most of which aren't even true!). It is a terrible cycle that one can be easily sucked into. Than you join a chat or support group to "help" support you. This seems benifical at first. Sure you get support, but with it comes all the garbage.....the people who pop in with random stories that set you back 10 times over. This newfound information and stories are hard to let go of, regaurdless of wether they are true or not. Through our countless searching, googling, and chatting we retain so much a#% information (majority being false) that we are armed with a lifetime of "symptoms" to worry about and refer to. If I personally look back.....I was in a better place before I got my "support"......I knew 1/100th of what I do now......and man I miss those days! I am glad to say that since dropping this board/google/and a few hypos I am in a much better place. It was far from easy to completely quit all this, but I did it cold turkey. With my counselors help we are getting through this and I am excited to be moving on. If only I could take back all of the time I have wasted search and chatting online and give it back to the people who matter....My babies and my family! Some people who are so obsessed and obsorbed in this stuff may try to guilt you into staying in this vicious cycle, but don't fall victim. While it is great to help others we can NOT give up our happiness. Selfish or not, you have to look out for number one. Keep yourself happy and healthy! I wish everyone on here NOTHING but the very best!!!! Some of you may not agree with my theory but it has done wonders for me! Also adding exercise and a earlier bed time 
Take care everyone......and remember a#$ is a disease of true weakness (my grandma had it and just one day woke up unable to walk) so don't sit and waste countless days (like I did) staring at dumb "symptoms" because if you can still walk, talk, and eat fine.....YOU ARE FINE!!!!! Take care.....and be carful who you talk to ......there are some weirdos loose on the internet 
and a parting video for laughs......
Take care everyone......and remember a#$ is a disease of true weakness (my grandma had it and just one day woke up unable to walk) so don't sit and waste countless days (like I did) staring at dumb "symptoms" because if you can still walk, talk, and eat fine.....YOU ARE FINE!!!!! Take care.....and be carful who you talk to ......there are some weirdos loose on the internet and a parting video for laughs......