/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8245763
This is why I keep saying to go to a therapist. He already knows or could deduce(he's clearly not an idiot, but has anxiety issues that this scan triggered) that his single scan didn't affect him enough to think about it all of the time. His actual problem is his anxiety.

OP, you have to realize that you could die from a heart attack at any time. In fact, you probably will, statistically die of heart disease. Brain tumors seem to be something that a lot of people with health anxiety seem to worry about, and getting that CT scan is what triggered it in OP.

Maybe this is a wake-up call that your time is actually finite and you aren't invincible. You are likely to die of a heart attack, but all you can hope for is that you live to an old age until then, say your 80s.

People with health anxiety seem to be more worried about not living long enough to enjoy the majority of their life. You see health anxiety in young people, especially 20s, when you're finally free to do as you wish, the LAST thing you want is to go to the doctor and they say "oh turns out you have pancreatic cancer, you'll be dead within six months. gg hope you did something worthwhile with your life"

Health anxiety, at least I believe, stems from that.

If you worry about things like this, once you actually DO become old and you're on your death bed, you'll be wishing you just forgot about this shit and lived your life, because it's all a waste of time. Statistically, you will live to old age OP as long as you have no underlying problems, so even this is something you'll look back on as that silly shit you worried about and have a laugh.

People die at all ages OP. The best case scenario is that you live to an old age. The worst is that you died not doing anything to look back on when you get there, and it's not hard to do. Do anything. Even the gesture of doing something that you wanted to do would be enough, even if the outcome from it wasn't what you hoped.