Last week, or maybe the week before... my memory is a bit hazy but I was convinced I was ill.

I was feeling weak, cold/shivery, had nausea & a headache. I was also had other health concerns on my mind. The thing I thought was strange was sometimes I'd feel ok, then I'd feel ill again... plus I didn't have a temperature. That sort of alerted me to the fact it might have been anxiety but no matter how much I tried to recognize my faulty thinking, I couldn't.

I ended up at the doctors, who gave me a full check-up & said I was in good health. That helped for an hour or two, but the next day I couldn't stop worrying about my health. My mind was racing, I was restless & I just couldn't control it.

Long and the short of it was, after calling the doctor again knowing it was anxiety & being prescribed some diazepam, I took one & that broke my cycle of worrying showing me that I wasn't ill since all my symptoms went away.

I can worry about a lot of things with GAD, but it's always the psychosomatic symptoms & health-related anxiety that are the worst for me. Usually the health-anxiety only comes on when I have some bone fide symptom, so not too frequently. Breaking the cycle is always the hard part though.