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What’s your honest opinion of union activity?

I’m also a (mostly former) health anxiety sufferer. Something which really helped me when I couldn’t stop obsessing about my heart was a senior doctor telling me I really shouldn’t worry about heart issues in my 20s (I have no risk factors except family history). He said people generally die when we’re growing and changing and issues become apparent, until 18 or so. Then we have an extraordinary period of good health, until our lifestyles etc catch up in our 40s, 50s or later. I noticed you said you were 28. He told me I should be enjoying my life and worry about these things when it eventually matters.

I’m not sure why this helped, it was just another version of “stop worrying” after all. He just explained it well and seemed to really want me to follow the advice.

Another thing that helped me to think about was “your body will let you know when somethings wrong”. I’ve had so many ‘symptoms’ that made me want to go to hospital. I started to think that I’ll wait it out a little, and if something is really wrong - I’ll know and won’t even think “should I get help”.

Hope things improve for you, I wouldn’t wish health anxiety on my worst enemy.

Any recommedations for getting into creating your own music via keyboard and software? (As a private hobby)

Hello! Since spring this year I’ve noticed that suddenly there’s lots of small turboprop planes flying around my area - quite rural in the countryside.

From Flightradar I can sometimes see that they are private owned and their path is often just flying around an area in small circles. Unfortunately it is quite a loud noise and throughout the day on most weekdays and some weekends.

I don’t want to be unreasonable and everyone has a right to their hobbies or possibly it’s for training purposes. It’s just tough as I work from home and previously our countryside area here was so quiet and peaceful. I wanted to ask is there anything I can do about this or do I just need to accept it now?

Already emailed the airport nearest me a couple months ago to enquire but they seem to have ignored it.