I’m 27 and have had various health anxiety obsessions this year and my current one is MS. 

I’ve been super anxious recently and I’ve noticed, especially this year, when I’m going through high periods of anxiety my left arm feels super tense and a bit tingly sometimes. I even brought this up with my therapist today saying my arm sometimes feels like this, and of course tonight it starts feeling tense/tingly again. Usually to keep myself from spiraling, I can tell myself that okay, this for the most part only happens when you’re overly anxious and most of the time it goes away when you focus on other things, but I’m having a really hard time tonight. It’s the times where it pops up when I’m not super anxious that it worries me the most. 

I did exactly what I’m not supposed to do and spent 30 minutes reading the MS subreddit which didn’t help at all, because there are so many people who said their initial symptoms were tingling/numbness. And after reading other people’s posts I’m going to be hyper focused on every muscle twitch/weird feeling now. 

I went through an MS fear earlier this year after my mom’s co-worker was diagnosed with it, but my brain found different obsessions for awhile. This current obsession seemed to start after I read an article about Selma Blair a few weeks ago. I just wish I could shut my brain off sometimes :(