Do you wake up in panic?
Panic at the get go! I wake up with a pit in my stomach. I examine all of my feelings. Am I breathing, what hurts today, why does my stomach feel so jittery, do I have to pee or is my bladder about to explode? The thoughts go on and on endlessly all day. My health anxiety journey all started when I was a little girl and overheard that someone, a neighbors daughter, had died of cancer. CANCER a word I had never heard before. I can’t recall my exact age but I began asking questions. Learning what CANCER was was so abstract yet terrifying to my young brain. I began to fear I would get CANCER. Fast forward to finding my grandmothers book of Home remedies. I began reading through all of the ailments and the possible reasons for them. I had very painful growing pains as a child. That ailment happens to be in the book as does restless leg syndrome. Both similar in nature ailments. But the big bold warning was KIDNEY FAILURE! This planted the seed that all seemingly harmless symptom...