Two years of ME/CFS symptoms, much better after a YouTube video on subconscious anxiety
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 2 years
- Last post
- Jun 2024
In their words
- Now: Much better
the symptoms dropped 80% like a miracle happened instantly 80% normal i stil have those 20% symptoms
In context ↗ - Began after: stress or burnout
the day i figured out was caused by anxiety and stress
Summary
Two years of physical symptoms — tight neck muscles, phantom smells and a near-fainting episode — were, they came to believe, caused by subconscious anxiety and stress. Realising this, they said, cut their symptoms by about 80% almost instantly, though around 20% still came on bad days and the physical effects of the stress needed more time to settle. They credited a YouTube video on subconscious anxiety.
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What they tried
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- the video that helped me · Helped a lot
but this is the video that helped me
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Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, with time counted from when the illness began. Hover or tap a point. The chart starts 2 years after onset: the story doesn’t say how ill they were before that. 2 steps say too little to place on the scale and are only in the table. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
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| When | What happened | Where they were |
|---|---|---|
| about 2022 | two years of physical symptoms during ongoing anxiety and stressthose physical like symptoms of 2 years of anxiety and stress need a bit more time to recoverIn context ↗ | Not stated |
| about March 2024 | trapped in a thought cycle, fear made symptoms five times worse, close to faintinghow it was 3 months ago when i was trapped in this thoughts cycle and the health disease fear made it 5 times worseIn context ↗ | Not stated |
| 2024-05-28 | realised subconscious anxiety was the cause; symptoms easedwhen i realised that i got 70% betterIn context ↗ | Mild |
| 2024-06-05 | symptoms about 80% down, around 20% left on bad daysthe symptoms dropped 80% like a miracle happened instantly 80% normal i stil have those 20% symptomsIn context ↗ | Mild |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Pain & fibromyalgia
i also have tight neck muscles in the right side of my head
In context ↗ - Loss of smell or taste
my phantom smells symptoms diminished
In context ↗ - Anxiety & low mood
i was trapped in this thoughts cycle and the health disease fear made it 5 times worse
In context ↗ - POTS & dysautonomia
the symptoms became 5 times worst in a condition tha i was about to faint
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