I cant believe all this is just anxiety.

If I had a dollar for all the time, I have said this, then I would be able to take us all out for steak dinner.
I have been having theses stupid lightheadedness... I have been dealing with high blood pressure.. but, tonight, I am light headed and when I checked my bp it was great,, it was like 119/79. I am sure that my monitor is broken, and then I freak my self out thinking that my bp is so much higher then what the monitor is saying.
I HATE LIVING IN THIS FEAR ALL THE TIME.
Right now I have a headache and i feel light headed,, you would think it would be my bp,, but like I said it says my bp is fine..
I wish I would just chill out.. I wish I wouldn't get so worked up over body symptoms....
I hate and I mean hate that anxiety gives us symtoms of other things, like heart attacks and strokes and cancer...
I was reading a article and the lady was telling about something that happen to her.. At first I was thinking she has anxiety because all the symptoms that she was talking about is what I use to go through,, will come to find out she had a tumor on her brain that was causing all the symptoms. Here I have had everyone of her symptoms but my is just anxiety,, thankfully.
If I could just not have the fear. I ask my husband all the time,, if you had this or that kind of body symptoms then how would you react... I want to know what a normal person is suppose to act like,, I know they dont act like me and freak out every time something is wrong in my body.
My bp yesterday was 140/100 all day... I was freaked out all day, couldnt set, couldnt eat.
Then last night, my blood pressure went down, but my symptoms are still there.
ok,, i know I am just going on and on...
thanks

Hi Lou

Have I got this right? You have a blood-pressure monitor and when it says your blood-pressure is high, you accept that it is working fine but when it says your blood-pressure is normal, you are convinced that it's broken.

What does this say about your thoughts?

The problem is not with your health, it is with your constant need to be reassured about your health. Unfortunately, nobody can offer that assurance and your goal has to be to accept that you might get ill and there might be things wrong with you but life goes on.

Thousands of people all over the world live with the spectre of terminal illness hanging over them every day but they still manage to live a fulfilling life.

Please ditch your blood-pressure monitor and stop wasting your life worrying about it.

Chris x