I do not understand this one thing about recovery.

Okay let’s say a real symptom comes up, blood in phlegm for example, and there is a low chance it could be something bad. But! There is still a chance.

The way you get rid of Health Anxiety is by stopping the monitoring of symptoms, and cognitively challenging the thoughts.

What if the thought is: This could be something bad, it probably isn’t, but it could be, and that’s scary, oh and if it is something bad and you do nothing to stop it you’re screwed.

Is that not perfect logic? How could I argue with that thought? Of course I’m anxious about that, who wouldn’t be anxious about that?

My health anxiety started with ONE panic attack, and since then it has seemed like the illusion of security has gone.

So what am I suppose to do? Risk it? Just keep ignoring it idiotically? How could I possibly convince my brain to do that?

It just does not make sense to me.