The "OMG I'm dying" hypochondria/mental health thread

[markolas]

Also, it has occurred to me that it could be kidney stones. I've never had them before, so I have no idea what it's like. I always imagined excruciating pain as you tried to pee out a rock. But, with anything like this, my mind immediately goes to the worst possible thing it could be and I hardly give a thought to anything else. So, blood in the urine automatically equals either cancer or kidney failure.

Ugh. And I'm so edgy about this now, that I can't go to the bathroom when I really need to. I took a Xanax just a minute ago.