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Do you worry about your health?

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MaggieTulliver Sun 11-Oct-20 19:05:37

I’m interested to know how much other Gransnetters are concerned about their health. I’m 63 and as far as I know reasonably fit and healthy but have very severe health anxiety. Every blemish or mark on my skin, every unusual pain is the harbinger of some awful illness (usually cancer). It’s getting worse as I get older and realise that I’m at the age when things start going wrong. I marvel at how other people get on with things and don’t let the fear of serious illness blight their lives. They have the attitude that they’re ok at that moment and if they something wrong they’ll deal with it then. And not catastrophise over every little symptom, which is what I do. I have a season ticket to the doctors!

Please tell me how you manage your health concerns and cope with getting older. I feel utterly defeated by this and it would help so much to know that I don’t have to live like this.

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butterandjam Sat 13-Jun-26 01:05:17

I recommend finding a good yoga teacher and joining a gentle class. Most include a section on guided physical and emotional relaxation, using breathing and visualisation excercises.

Breathing and visualisation to calm the mind, can be practised anywhere at any time , invisibly in public. Or at night in the small hours.

I always do it at the dentist, and during invasive medical procedures etc. Practice makes it possible to slip into a different mind-place where other thoughts do not intrude.

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Norah Sat 13-Jun-26 12:18:31

No, I don't give my health a moments thought.

I eat well, exercise, walk, have 2 TKR, fit and slim. No worries.

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petra Sat 13-Jun-26 12:36:54

HelterSkelter1

Another very old thread. I wonder how the OP is now?

I believe the OP is no longer with us

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HelterSkelter1 Sat 13-Jun-26 14:04:52

Oh that's sad. Other names on the thread I haven't seen before or recently. These old threads are always a bit sad.

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