My husband's psychic aunt?

[brandons_mom]

So, most of my worries are centered around my cognitive health.  I worry that I have some sinister disease that is making me lose my mind, forget the people I love most in this world and I basically believe it's making me lose all touch with reality.  I don't know if I think it's a primary cause, or possibly a type of cancer somewhere else in my body that has now metastasized to my brain.  My husband has this aunt, who claims to have the gift of clairvoyance.  My husband is in Mexico now and inquired about me to her just the other day.  He gave her my name on a piece of paper and she came back into the room saying that I have something in my brain that is making me confused.  That I have too much information being processed at once that is making me feel this way. She said it appeared I was using mostly the left portion of my brain and that I needed to calm down and relax.  She asked my husband if I had any type of head injury and when my husband told her no and that I'd had a CT scan of my brain she said it was something I was born with (OCD?) .  The other weird thing was that she said I was having troubles with my stomach and digestive system, which is strange because I have actually lost a lot of weight due to decreased appetite.  My doctor ordered an endoscopy, which I've yet to have done, just as a precautionary measure.  She thinks it's all related to stress/depression and acid reflux.  I can't get over what my husband's aunt said about my brain.  What did she mean by head injury? What does she see?  I am so afraid I'm losing my mind and will never go back to normal.  I feel so far away from myself and the people I love, how can this all just be anxiety?  Now I'm freaking out thinking that my husband's aunt sees something nonspecific in my brain and I'm just wasting the days away, undiagnosed as it gets worse and worse until I just go completely nuts for good-no turning back.  Even if this is all just my OCD, I don't see how I can ever go back to normal after scaring myself so much, if that makes any sense.  I feel like now that I know the fragility of the human mind, I can't go back to thinking mine is normal.  What does everyone think?  Maybe I'm just arbitrarily making presumptions of what it really means to go "crazy" and lose one's mind, it's just such a scary concept to me that I can't take it anymore. 

[Kayteecatt]

The thing about people with "the gift" (and yes I am a believer) is that there visions can be so vague.  Simply stating that there's something in your brain that you were born with could mean that you're not making enough seratonin....which we pretty much all know about ourselves.  The main thing that I saw that she said was that you needed to calm down and relax.

You just keep hanging in there.

[me]

Souds to me like she picked that you suffer from anxiety!  Too much information in your brain making you confused and you need to calm down and relax sounds like what we are all going through.

[AnxiouSteve]

Souds to me like she picked that you suffer from anxiety!  Too much information in your brain making you confused and you need to calm down and relax sounds like what we are all going through.

Ditto

[AnxiouSteve]

The thing about people with "the gift" (and yes I am a believer) is that there visions can be so vague.  Simply stating that there's something in your brain that you were born with could mean that you're not making enough seratonin....which we pretty much all know about ourselves.  The main thing that I saw that she said was that you needed to calm down and relax.

You just keep hanging in there.

Ditto 2

[Dor]

You do have something in your brain that is making you feel this way and it is quite simply - fear.  As I have said to you before, a major fear when dealing with anxiety is "going crazy", and as I said to you before, if you were going crazy you certainly would not fear it!  You are dealing with a very heightened sense of anxiety and whose brain wouldn't feel confused, foggy, and out of touch given that?  Now as to the question about if you had ever had a head injury - let it go.  What you are doing is running around trying to find answers.  The problem with that is that it is easy to latch onto the scary stuff and let the good stuff go by you.  Why?  Just your fear at work again.  Fear, fear, fear.  I can not say that enough. 

It is not as simple as calming down and relaxing.  You need a program to help you do that.  That program must first come with understanding of what is wrong so that you can accept that.  Then you can move on to helping yourself feel better.  I have mentioned time and time again Dr. Weeks.  If not that, then you need to stop researching what could be wrong with your brain and start researching dealing with anxiety.  Once you understand that the things you are feeling are very, very common in people dealing with anxiety then you can begin to relax a bit.  Research anxiety on the web.  Go to amazon and look up helpful books.  Go to your library.  Look into books by Dr. Burns, Shirley Swede.  Cognitive behavioral therapy is the thing most recommended for anxiety.  Research people who deal with that.  The most important thing is that you find a book or someone you can believe in and trust.  The more you research, the more you understand, the more you realize this is normal given your circumstances, the better you will feel.  Simply worrying and fearing is not good enough anymore.  You have to tell yourself that you are going to find the answers, you have to tell yourself that you can do this, you have to tell yourself that you will get better.  Is it possible to afford a psychologist who deals with anxiety.  Most therapy for this is short.

I don't mean this to sound so harsh.  Trust me, I do understand and that is why I hear what you are saying and know where you are.  But, I also know that until you take steps to get better that you are going to stay stuck.  I know that there is nothing seriously wrong with you - no brain disease, no injury, no going crazy.  You are simply scared.  You are NOT going to go crazy and there is NO disease eating away at your brain.  AND, you WILL get better.  You will get better when you make the decision to do so.  You will get better when you begin to fight and stop letting fear stand in the way.  Is it easy?  No.  Does it take time?  Yes.  Is it possible?  It is more than possible, it is probable when you work on it.  This requires work, just like raising your son does, but work brings good results.

Another thing to do is to counter every negative thought with a positive one.  Your mind is believing what you are telling it!  So start telling it better things.  "What if I go crazy".  Counter that with - "I am not going to go crazy.  That is just my fear talking".  "I don't feel connected to my family."  Counter that with - "Well, of course I am connected to my family.  I am dressing my son, feeding him, kissing him goodnight, talking to my husband.  I may feel spacey and I might for awhile, but I am connected with my family."  How about - "My brain isn't working right."  Counter that with - "Well of course it is.  I manage to write a very intelligent posting on the boards.  I explain my problem very well.  I am running my household.  I am totally in touch with myself, my feelings, and my surroundings.  It may feel weird, but it will pass one day".  Instead of fear, put in its place - hope.  Even if that is fleeting for awhile.  And more importantly, put in its place reality.  Remind yourself over and over and over again how really very good you are doing.

You are not the first, nor will you be the last to feel this way.  Volumes have been written on it.  Take heart in that.  Mostly take heart in the fact that these people did not go crazy nor did they lose their minds.  Pick yourself up, research, find good answers, not scary ones, and get determined to get better.  Be determined to get life back.  Be determined.  It is definitely in you just waiting.

Thinking of you,  Dor

[kristypants]

Souds to me like she picked that you suffer from anxiety!  Too much information in your brain making you confused and you need to calm down and relax sounds like what we are all going through.

The thing about people with "the gift" (and yes I am a believer) is that there visions can be so vague.  Simply stating that there's something in your brain that you were born with could mean that you're not making enough seratonin....which we pretty much all know about ourselves.  The main thing that I saw that she said was that you needed to calm down and relax.

You just keep hanging in there.

yeah i agree with both of these
if she had any inkling there was something serious she obviously would have said
it could have been anything really its probably something small or just that you're very worried!