I think what’s hard for those who love people with hypochondria-OCD to realize is that the individual can talk about an illness and not be obsessing over it.
Take the lettuce induced extremely loud diarrhea virus, for an example. Today, I was speaking to my my about it (more like complaining) and to her she just assumed it had to be OCD and I should try exposure therapy with a strawberry. “Don’t worry about it. ”……I’m not??
I wanted a strawberry so bad, but I can’t be stuck to the toilet for two weeks, ya feel?
Anyway, I only have hypochondria surrounding malignant and terminal diseases. Think cancer or fatal familial insomnia (I’m mostly afraid of the unknown after death 😁😁 not illness) This is because, when you psycho-analyze the origin for my hypochondria, my mom died of lung cancer. Not blueberry induced explosive gastrointestinal cosmic shamble scrambles
Anyway, it’s annoying and I know my triggers and what sends me into a delusional state. Thank you.
