How to overcome health anxiety
Health anxiety can be terrifying as you are constantly preoccupied with the idea that you might have a life changing illness.
The key to overcoming health anxiety is to stop consulting Dr. Google about your symptoms. This tends to lead to increased doubt and uncertainty. In addition to this you need to stop checking you symptoms repeatedly. Finally you’ll need to stop going to the doctor for second options and additional tests after you’ve been given the all clear. Excessive checking is what keeps health anxiety going.
More about anxiety here: https://theprivatetherapyclinic.co.uk/issues/anxiety/
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This video does not get at the root of the problem. So, simply saying you need to stop is of limited value.
I have health anxiety because I have a very painful, non curable, progressive disease that none of my doctors know how to treat, or really care to help me with. Its so bad i cant work now, no insurance, running out of money, no help in sight.
Yeah let me stop checking then when it is something serious I’m fucked
No 💩Sherlock 🕵️♀️
Amen! Thank you 🙏
Or maybe doctors do their jobs properly so we don’t have to keep coming back for the same reason.
But getting a result that it’s just anxiety makes me reassured 🫣😩
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Good advice. I google everything I eat or do. Will try to refuce or stop. Thanks.
I don't Google I study biology 🥲 and always check any changes in my body and any pain in my body even if it was 1/2 out of 10 It ll get to my head do I hate my self yes of course
True
I kinda need help
So i feel like i have somthing with my health all the time (health anxiety) but qhen i dont google my symptoms i get also scred but i havent tried not googling them so what could i do to stop?..
I think of google as the super pessimistic friend or relative and i now rarely google my symptoms because i just know its gonna spiral and google will NEVER calm me down itll just make things worse. Hope this helped and God bless y'all 🙏❤.
Bit to assertive there you need to stop googling . Maybe she should’ve said limit it a bit less everyday not you need to stop however the information is true
Yeah, that sounds really easy.
my anxiety has been so bad to the point where i’m searching up my symptoms and it’s saying i have like brain cancer and stuff even though i only feel head pressure not very often though and it’s just so hard to do everyday things because i’m so focused on seeing if my symptoms show up and i hate it.
In 2020 I went to a doctor because I had fever, no sense of smell, sore throat and coughing. It was a cold unlike I had had before. The doctor said it was just flu despite me highly suspecting it was Covid. When the medication he gave me didn't work, I went back with exaggerated symptoms. He gave me a form to go test in the lab. Guess what, I had Covid. Sometimes anxiety is your friend, not your enemy.
Its so hard though
i never had this untill i realized my cat had tapeworms and my parents don't want to take it to the vet, plus me not having gone to a doctor ever since i removed my last baby teeth
im afraid i have lipedema but seeing a doctor who told me i don't doesn't really reassure me because doctors know so little about it
It’s horrible to live this way. 😭
But I can’t stop myself.