Im like a hypocondriac i worry about getting the flu and catching it any suggestions to get over this feeling?

I'm the same way! If I hear about any disease I automatically start hyperventilating because I think I have it. Recently I started just really thinking about how many people have it worse then me or are very sick right now. I know this might not work for you but it really helps me alot. hope this helps! =].

Any time you have these thoughts just remind yourself of the reality-- it is actually worse for you to be constantly applying antibacterial lotion to your hands. Your body needs exposure to the everyday pathogens around you in order to maintain a strong immune system. Let me give you an example-- This past summer I worked in a cash room at a zoo. My primary job was to count money. While counting I would eat, touch my face, etc. with out washing my hands. We didn't wear gloves or anything like that. I haven't even gotten a cold since (and I normally get at least one ugly cold every winter). As for new diseases or hearing about diseases and thinking you have one-- realize that usually these are only contracted by people under particular circumstances. If some town half way around the world is having trouble with some disease that they contracted from the uncooked monkey they eat, you probably don't have it. Why worry that you will be sick today? Do you feel ill?? Life is hard enough without living in fear of getting sick. Besides, what is to worry about? If you get sick, you get sick. You'll get over it. Most diseases, with today's medicine, aren't deadly.

Forget it! You are worrying over nothing. I have a daughter like that. She is 29 years old in a couple of months..and she carries with her Dettol hand lotion in her handbag. When she touches hand rails on trains and buses or anywhere outside.. she smears this Dettol hand lotion on her hands in order to kill germs which she may have picked up. This is what is called compulsive obsessive behaviour. This is unnecessary. All you have to do when you get home is to wash your hands..that is all. In order to get sick from anything which may be contagious..you will have to have an extremely weak immune system. If you are fairly healthy you will be alright....as your body takes care of itself.

if this is a condition that you cant seem to control, maybe it would be helpful to talk to a therapist about it. they have medications to deal with the compulsive behaviours, and maybe they can help you with the hypochondria as well.

I am the same way. It controls my life. Now I see a "talking doctor." It has helped me, I have many phobias, emotophobic, germaphobic. ect. I recommend seeing one. It really helps.