Realization

[vonnenut]

I am a married father of three.  With Father's Day coming up, I just realized that I have spent countless hours on the internet obsessing over MS and Parkinsons, stomach and colon cancer, etc.  Countless hours that I could be spending with my children and improving my own quality of life.  The reassurances that this website can offer are invaluable, with a lot of very compassionate and insightful outlooks on our condition.  However, in the end we are responsible for our own healing, and I have realized that health anxiety has taken time away from my wife and children that I can never give back.  God bless, hope you all take the time to ENJOY Father's Day.  If any of us truly do have the diseases that we stress and obsess over (unlikely), then it is time to look forward and take advantage of whatever time has been given to us.  I have come to the realization that I don't want to look back on my life and realize that I spent hundreds of hours researching diseases that I may or may not have when I could have been living.  This post is not meant to demean anyone, just a realization in what is hopefully a small personal victory over health anxiety. (At least for a while!)

[abeja_reina_1989]

Good for you! I say.. today's a new day. Never too late to change! :) Plus, if you did have the disease, what could you do about it anyway right this moment? I say, keep in contact with your doc about anything you're worried about health wise and I'm sure they can calm your fears

happy father's day :):):)

[MJF]

I have been listening to a book by Eckhart Tolle.  In it, he says "what problems do you have right now?"  When you think that way, you realize that there are likely no real problems in the present - we are always worrying about the future, the "what ifs".  By living in the now, which is what you are going to do today (Happy Father's day!!!), you will see that there is very little to be scared or unhappy about. 

[diana66]

Great advice, I hope I can do it!  I try constantly but it is a daily battle to break the worry cycle.  You are so right when you say that worry just takes time away from all that is good in life...