I’ve been experiencing abdominal pains, flatulence and indigestion for the past three months.
Liver, pancreas and stools tests all came out negative, but the symptoms still haven’t gone away.
A few days ago, I had a panic attack that maybe the tests were wrong and I had liver cancer. I started to have visions of cancer spreading through my liver which kept escalating to the point where I realised that I was almost willing my cells to turn malignant.
Needless to say, this caused me a huge amount of distress, not least that I might have actually given myself cancer through the power of my negative thoughts. I keep returning to this, so that although the original attack lasted around 20 minutes, it still dominates my thoughts.
The problem is that it is circular, the more I worry about this, the more I start to replay what happened in my mind, which further increases my worry, which increases my fears that I might actually do my body some lasting harm. Last night I saw a small rash on my tummy above my liver.
So I have two questions:
1). Am I correct in thinking that it is indeed medically impossible to give myself cancer simply by the power of thought no matter how much and how hard I think about it?
2) Is there any way I can distract myself and break this destructive cycle?
