When you worry/obsess over a sickness or health issue, can you make yourself feel your having symtoms?

Question

I guess that would go along with being a Hypochondriac, which I always have felt I struggle with at times. I mean how powerful is your mind/ or even subconsious when you focus on thinking your have a certain illness or health problem. Can is cause you to have the symtoms if you focus on it so much!

For example (my current situation) I went to the doctor because I felt I was having a bladder problem because I felt like I had to pee a little more after finishing. Starting off it didnt bother me too much but I decided to get it check out. It kind of stumpled her and she asked me of I felt I was urinating frequently..I said no I dont take MORE trips to the bathroom, I just feel like I have to go a bit more right then after I pee. Well she started treating/testing me for an infection that frequent urination is ONE of the symtoms you have. I didnt even feel like I was frequently urinating, it was more an extra sensation. Well guess what, ever since my apt with her I am NOW peeing more. All my tests came back normal and I dont even have to take the meds anymore because my bladder, and everything down there came back fine.

IM STILL urinating more!!!. I dont even have my original symtoms. Now all I have is, peeing more, and even at night. So Im in a crazy endless cycle of thinking something is wrong! My husband thinks I just got myself worked up and am causing it, which I could almost agree, but is the mind REALLY that powerful? I want this to go away now.

Answer 1

Well.. seems like you sorta answered the question yourself.. but yeah.. I think that our minds/conciousness affects our reality far more than most people realize or are willing to believe... Quantum physics has proven that our observations affect the outcome of experiments.. so our thoughts alone have real effects on the material world and especially on our own bodies.... so be careful what you dwell upon.. and I recommend reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn. Cheers =)

Answer 2

You can absolutely make yourself have symptoms of illnesses. If you focus or worry about them then your body can mimic them. Like the first poster said, Phantom pregnancies are a good and dramatic example, people want (or don't want!!) babies so badly that they start getting all the signals but with no actual pregnancy!

Try not to panic - your tests came back negative. Push it to the back of your mind and focus on something else.

Answer 3

I have dealt with similar issues, but more to the fact i was too scared to find out. I had a lump in my leg muscle, I thought it was a cancerous tumour for over a year, finally went to the doctor to find out it was fat in my muscle. Also, I had stomache pain periodiccaly, i thought it was serious but procrastinated out of fear to go to the doctor. Finally when I went there was nothing there after an ultrasound, turns out its just stress. From worrying about everything thats wrong with me. You need to stop worrying all the time, relax and enjoy life by the day.

Answer 4

It really is that powerful. I once knew a woman that was so convinced she was pregnant she was even having morning sickness, breast swelling the whole works, just to find out she wasn't pregnant. Just go back to the doctor, even if it's just to talk about how you're feeling.  

Answer 5

What medications were you on and how long were you on them? Check online and see if frequent urination is a side effect of the meds you were on (just search the medication name and "side effect").

Is it possible you aren't actually urinating more frequently and just taking more notice of it? You know how sometimes you hear a word and then you hear it all day, on the radio, on tv, etc. etc.  Or you hear a song that you haven't heard in years and then you hear it five times in a week? Maybe it is just because you are LOOKING for frequent urination that you are "finding" it so to speak.

But it could be psychosomatic, as well.  I wouldn't worry about it too much if your doctor says you are all right.  

Answer 6

I know what you are talking about, sometimes this is known as 'psychosomatic' where someone convinces themselves they suffer from a condition and it manifests itself