Health Anxiety: Someone Just Like Me

When you feel like you are the only one in the world that could possibly feel the way you do, the world becomes a very lonely and scary place. In a desperate attempt to calm my fears and to in some way understand what was happening to me, I have spent hours upon hours scouring the Internet for anything and everything “anxiety”. I have collected many links, lifelines, to news stories, blogs, and YouTube videos of people like me.

When I am feeling down, scared, and alone, I turn to these lifelines to bring comfort that there are others who know the pain and frustration that I feel. The story of Laura Anglim, not only is one of those stories that has helped to make me feel more normal but her story, is my story.

“For the past six years, Laura Anglim, 26, has been convinced she is going to die. Her days are often spent searching the internet for symptoms for illnesses such as breast cancer, Hodgkinson’s disease or brain tumours. In her mind, she’s had them all.”