u/poisonivy1218

I’m looking for a new pcp to go to. Someone who’s accepting patients pretty quickly.

I have Aetna insurance, I would prefer women’s health and a female doctor. I also need one that is understanding of anxiety and panic disorders. I’m struggling with health anxiety and I know one of the first steps toward getting back on track is by proving to my brain that I don’t have all of the actual health issues my brain is concocting lately.

I can cross reference names of providers with my Aetna app to make sure they’re in network.

Thank you!

I live in the TX panhandle where, granted, we don’t see as many tornados these days, but it still happens and I feel like with us going into El Niño we’re seeing more rain and storms. I have always had storm anxiety, but I also always had grounding statements like “the meteorologists are saying not to worry” “we aren’t under a watch” “the experts know” etc. Last year though, we had a rare situation where the meteorologists said we were done for the night (it was about 1 am), the tornado watch was allowed to expire, and I felt okay to take my kids home, settle in, and send them to bed. I live in a mobile home about 50 ft from my mom’s cinderblock house so normally I stay there when it’s stormy because I feel safer. But not even 30 seconds after I took my shoes off and kicked back in my chair I got a tornado warning for my location and one ended up close enough that where we were everything went eerie calm. It set my anxiety so far back that now I find myself not trusting what the weather guys say, I freak out anytime there’s any kind of storm even if they say there’s not a threat of tornados, and night time storms leave me shaking and panicking so bad that I’m worried about my health from the high stress levels. Today and tonight it looks like we have a chance for storms and the overnight part my brain is interpreting what everyone says as the threat of tornadoes is higher overnight than it will be during the day. I don’t know if I’m just reading into it because of my fear or if I need to figure out how to just stay at my mom’s tonight. Problem with that though is my husband will be at work (night shift is always the worst for my anxiety because he’s my rock), and we have a new puppy that is used to sleeping in her kennel at night…. I just don’t know what to do and no one else I know has such an intense fear of storms so it makes me feel like I’m an inconvenience or overreacting (even though no one has every done anything to make me feel that way).