It's not enough that I have this DD...
My son...who has always been a bit hypochondriacal (with good reason...had some health problems when he was little: pneumonia that lasted a month at age 10, high blood pressure at age 11, an ulcer at age 12, asthma ... none of which he still has..). When his gf went in for surgery on Monday to have her gallbladder removed (scheduled for over a month), and she's recovering fine, but right after that he started having chest pain, shortness of breath, feeling of a lump in his throat, some heartburn (do these symptoms sound familiar?). He went to his doctor and had check-up and chest x-ray, all was fine. He still thinks something is wrong and I can SEE this A/P in his face! He is a wreck! I keep telling him it's anxiety over worrying about his gf, but he doesn't believe me... "I don't want to have anxiety" is what he is telling me. He is going to make another appointment and see the doc again to be re-checked. I asked him to read up on A/P, but he is totally convinced that he has some horrid disease. I'm not telling him to go on meds.. just to try to realize that this stressful event probably caused him to have anxiety, and now the health anxiety is making it worse...
Any suggestions?
Bear
It's a jungle out there.....
Theme song from "Monk" by Randy Newman