[IchbinkeinTeufel]

I think I made the fatal mistake of being honest to my GP, when I told her that I had health anxiety (and I believe I mentioned OCD) prior to telling her the reason I went there.

Is telling your GP/doctor that you have health anxiety, ensuring you get completely and utterly ignored, even if you have a fairly serious problem?

I'm generally trying to be straight with people like doctors, ... well, direct - I try to get to the point, especially since most of the time, I'm really anxious. My dad tells me I'm "blasé", and apparently I don't exaggerate my problems enough. Am I supposed to go in there, crying, shouting at the woman, acting like I'm gonna ****ing die? Do I really have to act like an imbecile, in order to get help? Because, if so, I'm screwed.

I imagine doctors recoil any possible help, when they find out someone has hypochondria/HA, but how is that professional? How is it acceptable to not even test my urine or try another route, fobbing me off with "it's probably muscular", when I went to the woman for help, because I was struggling to piss, was getting intermittent, lower-abdominal pains, and a couple of other symptoms? So, ... because I'm not dying, my struggling doesn't matter? I don't enjoy the attention, nor do I enjoy seeing a doctor, let alone going down town.

I have pretty severe anxiety problems - I can't just click my fingers and relax. I stopped working out months ago, so I'd say I've not pulled a muscle. I've tried to keep my abdomen as tense-free as possible, for the past month or so, and it hasn't made a great deal of difference. There was a period when I didn't feel too bad, regarding this peeing thing, but now it's come back, and I'm back to stressing about it.

Random question: does anyone, with anxiety problems, take Kalms? I'm getting some, and I'm curious to know whether other anxiety sufferers have found any help from it.

If my weeing tribulations are all down to anxiety, fine, that would be a very good thing, but I'd still really like a doctor to at least give me something for it, so I can stop having the bladder of an 80-year-old. Given I've had anxiety problems for the past, ... probably 15 years, you'd think they would give me some sort of anti-anxiety medication, but nope, ... no dice. Pains, problems weeing, problems eating, problems sleeping, barely get out of the house, can't work, struggle to be social, etc. I don't get it, ... are anti-anxiety meds that bad?