Sunburnt and anxious
Hi everyone! I have struggled with severe anxiety for years now, and within the past ten years my anxiety has been a majority health related. This summer my health anxiety has begun to center around the sun and sunburn. I’m on a trip right now and I got sunburnt so needless to say my anxiety is through the roof. The uv was a high of 9 today, and I was out there for a while but I was applying SPF 50, obviously not as often as I should have been though. When I was younger I had a really bad sunburn that left me with chills and nausea and I’m anxious that’s going to happen again. I’m not sure if this happens to anyone else but when I’m anxious my skin feels hot, and that’s making sensation isn’t helping my anxiety about my sunburn. I’ve been drinking water and applying Hawaiian tropic after sun like once every hour. It feels a little warm to the touch, nothing too hot but it’s red and I’m freaking out so bad.
Sorry for rambling but I’m just feeling so anxious and lost. I hate that I can’t make it go away and I feel stupid. Just needed to vent and get this out so hopefully someone can convince me that I don’t have sun poisoning:(