and it also made me extremely depressed because I would always cry and say “why did it have to be me to get sick” “ I wish I could die”. “My life would’ve been normal if I never got sick.” Getting sick with the stomach flu genuinely ruined my life. I was a perfectly happy stress free little girl before all of that. Never had any anxiety before. So yep, that experience really changed me but now i’m trying to think positive and now I know that it really is all in my head.

Something similar happened to me. I’m 13 years old now but when I was 7 years old I had a really bad stomach virus and would throw up everything I would eat. I also had to go in the ambulance because they thought I had appendicitis but it was just a case of a bad stomach flu. I was literally never the same after that. I would always feel like i was gonna throw up and would always feel nauseous even when I was all better and wasn’t sick anymore. It stuck with me forever. I would always ask my parents “ Am I gonna throw up” constantly because I would get so panicky even if I got a slight stomach ache. My parents took me to a Gastroenterologist because I would say I felt nauseous and stomach aches all the time. After multiple tests It said I didn’t have anything in my stomach. One doctor told me I was faking it and asking for attention. I LITERALLY WASNT. I genuinely felt like I was gonna throw up all the time every. single. day. My parents eventually took me to a psychologist because they thought it was all in my head. My psychologist diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder. I did therapies for a little bit but it just didn’t help the nausea I would always have and anxiety I would get. Now i’m on an anxiety medication because I would have super bad anxiety of throwing up anywhere and also would hate going on vacations because I would feel like I was gonna throw up. I also lost a lot of weight once in a vacation in mexico because I couldn’t eat because I was super nauseous. So I hope these anxiety meds that I’m taking will help me stop overthinking everything and stop making myself feel physically sick. And I know this post was from a long time ago but how is your son doing now?