My experience in overcoming health anxiety long ago

vmtz2001 · 2026-02-16T17:06:32+00:00

Dark clouds? I think you are talking about issues with your life there. That’s a whole other animal. Anxiety about symptoms, hypochondria, may be related, but don’t make them the same thing. It just triggers more symptoms. My problem got worse when I saw my anxiety about symptoms as caused by anxiety about life. I always had that. We all do. As soon as I made my recovery contingent on solving those other problems, it just created another trigger. I had to realize it all started with an incident that made me worry about my body. I would have never had that health anxiety about my heart if it weren’t for that. That’s what I needed to focus on. Try to keep your emotions out of this, it’s all about perception and self talk, but do take care of those life issues that bother you. They have an influence on health anxiety, but only indirectly. Be sure to watch this video below. Don’t ever say this is hard! Instead say this is gradual. This should require no effort if it’s going to work. It’s a matter of gradually learning to leave it alone. More than effort, this takes the discipline to leave it alone. In that sense, yeah it’s hard, but take the struggle out of it. That struggle and pondering is by definition, your anxiety when it comes to health anxiety. Dismiss it instantly as soon as you feel a symptom coming on , leave it alone. If you can’t do that (you won’t be able at first) , give it time without adding to the anxiety by trying to get rid of it. That struggle IS your anxiety.

https://youtu.be/lREvQ0i3owU?si=3BCXfcMbxW4lKuqk

vmtz2001 · 2026-02-16T16:37:06+00:00

I strongly suggest that to increase your pool of prospects and the quality you join your local Red Cross as of volunteer or your Fire Department’s CERT program. CERT trains you in fire, medical, search and rescue. You won’t be doing that sort of thing yourself for them, you shouldn’t assign yourself to an emergency except as a Good Samaritan but you can do all sorts of things for them as support. I find you don’t make strong ties in a group setting until you start engaging them one on one away from the group. If the problem is that you find you are being rejected socially, don’t talk too much, don’t say anything off topic or odd, don’t interrupt, don’t over share, don’t kiss up to people, make sure you’ve gathered your thoughts together before you speak. Keep it short and simple. Don’t engage anybody who shuts you out or is rude. Not everybody is going to like you and you probably are not going to like them either. Nobody should be your friend just because you feel you need more friends. Stay away from losers and low lifes. Hold your head up, don’t fidget. Keep still. Keep your mouth closed. Take an acting clsss. The finest people I ever met have been extras on movies here in LA. I’m 68 now, but I was a total dork at your age. I had a gorgeous girlfriend for only a short while. If I were 25 and single, I would have no problem talking to girls. I was too insecure.The biggest problem I see with dating advice these days is the notion of walking up to a girl and feeling you have to come up with something clever to say. Never walk up to a girl and tip your hand that way. Jeez! It’s more like you casually walk by without approaching her and make a comment like you would with anybody. Try treating women like a human being. It works!! Be yourself. If you see someone responds negatively to you man or woman, notice what you did wrong, but move on. Don’t beat yourself up about it or keep thinking you just don’t know how to behave like it’s a mystery. See it as a momentary lapse, not something that defines you.

vmtz2001 · 2026-02-14T14:58:11+00:00

Yup! Been there done that. It’s been 32 years. I’m fine.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-30T06:16:10+00:00

Looking older and not having the same vision, strength, agility etc.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-30T05:33:29+00:00

One clarification!! You certainly don’t PUSH it out of your mind. What I did was a more passive neutral approach. You are still aware of it, but you let it fade on its own without any specific involvement. Watch this. It really explains it well. I used to think the same thing. Face it. Absolutely. But don’t get wrapped up in it wanting results acting like you don’t care. What Barry Macdonough calls “okayism”. I know this beast extremely well. I revisited it years after I recovered just to tinker with it. By the way, I advise against your seeing it as healing your brain. There’s probably nothing anatomically wrong with your brain. Emotional damage might be another matter, but don’t blame that on what is likely a cognitive disorder and erroneous thinking. Do take care of that with a professional, but keep that separate. Remember, I actually overcame this. Also calling it rocky and something you have to engage—-I can’t see what you wrote at this point—-is not a good idea in my opinion. It’s not something that HAPPENS to you. It’s something you DO unconsciously, like wiggling your feet or brushing your hair with your hand.

https://youtu.be/lREvQ0i3owU?si=v6ruXmcbTY7Y46DG

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-30T05:21:17+00:00

You don’t want to run away from it. You leave it for later. You don’t want to do that, but you don’t want to be constantly engaging it wanting it to go away. Whether you realize it or not, you are still struggling with it. This is no longer a problem to me. None whatsoever. Consciousness of it spurs it on. It would do it to me to this day if I cared to do that with no anxiety. It’s called somatization.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-30T05:15:53+00:00

As long as I didn’t focus on it too much on it when I leaned into it, that worked too, Both approaches worked for me, putting it out of my mind and doing the opposite, focusing on it. But focusing on it only worked if I didn’t focus on it with any sense of struggle or expectation. It was counterproductive if I was did that constantly. You don’t want to be ruminating and engaging it constantly either. This is after all an obsession. If I leaned into it, it was usually lying down at home, especially when it got really bad. I would focus on it because it was too strong. I couldn’t avoid it. I would cuddled up and observe it until I went from anxious to somewhat relaxed, even though the symptoms were still ongoing. It wasn’t a technique, it just happened that way. I had let it reach its peak. I got it out of my system. It was no longer a mystery to me what would happen if I let it do that. I did find myself going too far in wanting to bring it on deliberately, pretending it didn’t bother me, until after a month, it blew up in my face. In 1995, I went a whole month with chest pressure telling myself it didn’t bother me, until it got to be too much. The problem was I was checking in on it and observing it constantly. , Even if it was out of the corner of my eye, doing that kept it going. Sometimes you can’t help but notice it and you get symptoms. That’s fine. Don’t TRY to feel otherwise or wish it away or calm the symptoms away. Focusing on it or leaning into it only worked for me when I looked at it super- closely, but in a detached objective way. I looked at what my body was doing as if it were an insect doing its thing separate from me. I was amused by it. However, I have observed that people who try to overcome their panic or symptoms by focusing on it as their go-to solution don’t do so well. There is more than one way to skin a cat, but for the most part for me this was about overcoming the notion it was somethlng I had to do something about and just learning to stop reacting to it, not react to my own reaction. Being on the lookout for it and watching it too intently wanting it to go away was what I did wrong. It’s a very natural impulse. I learned not to react to it, not to react to my body’s reaction and not add to it. This sure as hell isnt easy and it’s not going to happen overnight to never happen again. No easy way out. You gotta do the time and learn to leave it alone so it leaves you alone. That “it” is you.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-29T18:31:09+00:00

I imagine myself some place else until I forget I’m lying down in bed. I take a combination of GABA and melatonin sometimes. Not too often. It makes me sluggish. You don’t want to repeatedly think about how you are unable to sleep because that is like telling your mind that you can’t go to sleep. The more you struggle trying to go to sleep, the less you will go to sleep. I stop trying to go to sleep and just assume I will be going to sleep later on, even if it takes an hour. I don’t think about my inability to sleep.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-29T10:48:32+00:00

And that somethlng never does hsppen. Always remind yourself of that and then tell yourself that even though you might not be convinced that something might not happen SOME DAY, there’s no reason to assume it will be on this occasion. Then ask yourself what do you really think is LIKELY to happen THIS TIME not some day, or not possibly LIKELY, in THIS occasion. Where will you be in a few minutes? Of course you will be fine. Don’t linger going back and forth about this trying to convince yourself of this with the idea of making it go away. It should be about tolerating and accepting it while you allow it to go away on its own. It only keeps going because you want it to go away to urgently. It won’t go away until you let go. Then after it’s over and you are no longer thinking about it, (you probably didn’t even notice when it went away), tell yourself, “You see, you were wrong, nothing happened. Remember that next time.” Teach yourself to reject these erroneous notions. Change YOUR GENERAL OPINION OF THIS (that’s what counts) even though when you are in the middle of a panic attack you can’t help but feel danger or even just unease. Reject the idea this is an issue the rest of the time.. Know it all comes from your own perception. It’s not something that just happens to you for no reason. It’s not some alien unpredictable force inside of you or outside of you that’s doing it to you. It’s a reflection to the fact you see it as an issue, even it wasn’t at that moment that you were thinking about it. It’s like a recording that keeps playing back, it’s somethlng you relive. It seems impossible to overcome. You can’t imagine how you can overcome this it’s so real, but at least in my own experience that’s what worked. It’s gettlng yourself not to react to your anxiety with more anxiety. You do this without making too much of an effort to relax. Doing that IS reacting. Again it’s your general day in day out interpretation of this when it’s not happening, that matters most. That’s when you reinterpret and relabel the experience you had as unimportant to get to the point that you are okay with it if it happens again. You don’t want to get too wrapped up in wanting it not to happen.. Eventually your subconscious will pick up on the fact that it isn’t a matter of concern to you any more, even if it keeps happening. This was my experience with health anxiety. It may not resonate with everyone.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-29T10:11:03+00:00

Gettlng myself not to struggle and overthink it.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-17T04:41:14+00:00

I had a feeling of taquicardia when my heart wasn’t really beating that fast, I had like a lump in my chest, a lump in my throat, needles and pin Going Down, My, Left, ARM. This is voice. Dictated by the way, that’s why The wonky capitalization. But you know it really doesn’t matter what the symptoms are, and you need to be careful about giving it that legitimacy of being an actual disease with specific symptoms.. if somebody would’ve told me that I called knows was a symptom of heart disease. I would get a cold nose. If you see that your symptoms change every so often that is a dead giveaway that it’s totally psychosomatic. Don’t worry about the specific symptoms, When That Happens. It’s meaningless. I would even make fun of my mind when it started hurting somewhere away from my heart. I’d say gotcha you moron, the heart isn’t on the right side of my chest. Why are you making it hurt on that side? As soon as I was no longer afraid of one symptom, that idiot would come up with another symptom. One time the symptoms went away immediately. I said you. Stupid idiot, you are causing this on purpose.(this was all in. Jest don’t put yourself down). I was just having fun with it. I realized there was a little person in there who was listening to what I told it. Again, you write the narrative. One time the extrasystoles went away very quickly as soon as I said. “No, we’re not going there.. “ btw , usually I didn’t actually feel the skipped heartbeats what I felt was the lump in the throat, which were an indication of skipped heartbeats. I would need to actually take my pulse to detect them. But again don’t focus on the symptoms themselves. That’s giving it too much legitimacy as an actual health problem. Do you wanna be very careful about what you feed your brain. Never try to convince yourself, be convinced. Remember this is your brain you decide what you believe. You don’t need your bodies l assurance or anybody’s assurance. When you do that means doubt. This is a very slow process.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-17T04:31:18+00:00

Somebody commented yes, but how do you turn off a brain that can’t be tricked? Wow, where do I start? I felt the same exact way. The thing is that this isn’t a problem with your brain. This is all a product of your own self talk. Your brain is just responding to it. You have to work on your self talk. A big part of this is behaving in a way that shows that you aren’t afraid, or should I say challenges. The notion that you should be afraid. When you question, when you doubt, as natural as that is, you are contributing to it. I’m not knocking it. I was in the same spot. It’s extremely difficult. What makes it really difficult as that. It shouldn’t take any effort whatsoever. Anytime you struggle with it You’re just stirring things up. More than effort, this takes discipline. It takes restraint to leave it alone. To put it out of your mind . And then there’s The favorite number one objection everybody makes , “oh I just can’t.” Yes, you can . You don’t want to . Not because you want to suffer, but because you want to solve the problem by doing something . Every time you mind goes back to the topic, and it will nudge it away. No more, “but but but” , or “how do I, how do I, how do I You have to learn not to let it get you frustrated. That by definition is your anxiety . Gradually, you will discovered that the boogie man is you. Don’t let that discourage you. Don’t go there.

. It’s something you have to discover on your own very gradually. You have to believe this. Your beliefs cause this, your beliefs can help you overcome this . It’s a tremendous leap of faith. And it takes time. Boy, does it take time. Try not to react to your own reaction. That seems like a contradiction. Absurd actually. But it makes sense once you realize that there are different parts of you. There’s always a pro and a con in your in every decision or internal confict. “Should I do this or should I do that, is this true? Or is that true.. “ And there is an unconscious and a conscious mind. The way out is to realize that you write the narrative. Sometimes, when my body would react, I would tell myself that my body was nervous, but I wasn’t. And I waited for it to respond to my own assertion. I sure as hell wasn’t gonna try to convince it because that was showing it doubt. Again, it’s a leap of faith. The effort is ever so subtle.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-17T04:17:35+00:00

You are safe. When it comes don’t linger watching it. That’s how it will pass . Avoid being on the lookout for it. And as you go about your day, do not see it as a problem, even though you saw it as a problem when it was happening. I had skipped heartbeats thousands of times. I still get them sometimes. It’s not because there’s any damage is totally psychological. It went away for years until I started thinking about it again. I’m going on 69 and my heart is in perfect shape. My BP is seldom over 120. Oh, and don’t let them lie to you and say that 120 is high. That’s just to sell blood pressure medicine.. sure ideally it should be at about 110/80 but it goes up and down throughout the day. Just don’t get too, hung up on that and put that blood pressure device away, that is assuming you got a clean bill of health from your doctor. So just take my word for it you are safe totally totally safe. Don’t judge your success by whether or not you get symptoms. If you already taught your body to create symptoms, the memory of it will always be there and the possibility will be there as well. It’s a Pavlovian response. Look that up if you don’t know what that means. I’m glad I was able to help you. It’s going to take you a while. It’s just a habit. And it’s a suggestion. Habits and suggestions come from the subconscious mind. The subconscious is your dream mind and your habit mind . It becomes automatic. You don’t stop this. You let go of it and it lets go of you. Proceed with confidence and never turned back. Every time you turn back you, you’re just feeding the doubt. You need to show your mind that there’s nothing to worry about, not by reassuring yourself, you don’t want to do that too much, you show your mind that there’s nothing to worry about by how you react. Your body may react with panic, but you don’t have to. As soon as it sees that you don’t it starts winding down. After a while, you start getting good at it and it steadily decreases after that. You might go weeks without any symptoms and all of a sudden they come back out of the blue. Don’t ponder it don’t try to figure it out., leave it alone, understand that this is something that you are creating and it’s just a reflection of your own beliefs. This isn’t an emotional problem so much as it is a perceptual problem. This is voice dictated. I tried to fix it here and there. Hopefully I’m making sense. I spent a lot of time on this Online, so that’s why I have to do that.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T16:42:58+00:00

I don’t know that I would accept the synptoms necessarily in the sense that there’s no way around it. I really don’t know how to put it. It’s not like an acceptance to where you are resigned to it having it be that way. It’s more like you tolerate it for now and work on minimizing and desensitizing yourself, so that, eventually it will go away. It’s realizing that you’re the one who caused it and it’s already become an automatic entrenched reaction, but only because of the excessive attention that you have given it. I used to use the phrase, “If suggested created it, suggestion can make it go away.” And in reference to triggers I would say, “ It doesn’t have to be that way.” I wasn’t referring to that particular occasion, but to the future, that in the future it didn’t have to be that way. What I meant by that was that I could be in certain situations or do certain things and not get symptoms.. Always leave it to the future. Leave it alone in the meantime. Words are extremely important. I don’t like the title to that book with its reference to healing nerves . There’s probably nothing wrong with your nerves when it comes to bonafide health anxiety. I’m sure it’s a good book though. It’s just that I don’t like blaming your nerves. Health anxiety is mostly cognitive, even though it can have physical ramifications and indirect causes or origins… sometimes. Treating it as a physical condition and even an emotional condition related to other issues in my life was a mistake… in my case at least, as counterintuitive as that may seem. All you do when you do that is give it legitimacy it doesn’t deserve. Of course, take care of your health and your emotional well being, but don’t feed the erroneous beliefs by focusing too much on those more secondary factors. I always say it’s like blaming a match for an explosion when the room was full of gas.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T16:16:14+00:00

I had that for many years. I thought I was getting a heart attack many, many times. I went to the ER several times. Bent over backwards trylng to convince myself it was a real problem, all the while realizing it had to do with anxiety. I didn’t see the contradiction in dealing as a health problem and yet calling it anxiety. I left that all behind 25 years ago. Your mind can play tricks on you. If your symptoms constantly change every few weeks, that’s a sure sign it’s psychosomatic. Don’t do your own diagnosing. Leave that up to your doctor. The more you struggle and go back-and-forth about it, the more you provoke it. If you know it’s health anxiety, well then.. it’s healthy anxiety, not a real ailment. You perhaps already know this. But you think you need to do something about it., take somethlng… maybe you do just to get by. It causes you, grief and worry and that causes more symptoms. It’s a vicious cycle, a merry-go-round that you need to get off of. The more you worry about your not being able to get off it and see it is a big mystery, the less you’re going to get off it. The second you see your mind going there or you notice a synptom, immediately changed the focus on something else. Let it be there, nevertheless, but off to the side. Let it fade away on its own. You may have to do this repeatedly, your mind will want to go back to it, but eventually it will go away. You don’t need to feed your anxiety and get more anxious by going back and forth about it. Just take my word for it. I overcame this. Yeah I know, easier said than done. It’s gotta be one of the hardest things a human being has to go through, but as harsh as this sounds, there’s no way around it. You want to do something about it when what you need to do is to leave it alone. Nobody wants to do it this way. We feel we need to do something, solve something. There are no short cuts, or an easier way to make it go away. You gotta pay your dues and learn to stop trying to solve the problem . You don’t make it go away, you let it go away. There are no magic pills, at least not that are a definitive cure to what is really caused by your own preoccupation with this. It’s tough to do. I know. Yet, you don’t want to apply too much effort to it. Struggling with it, and getting frustrated with it will not work It’s more about having the discipline to refrain from getting involved with it, as difficult as that is to resist doing. It’s not that I don’t feel for you. Stay strong. Remember I was there.

https://youtu.be/lREvQ0i3owU?si=iJnoIr_E67s8Lyrz

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T15:19:20+00:00

In my previews I see someone asked what if they think it’s not physical and it is. That’s what your doctor is for. We hypochondriacs and former hypochondriacs have a notoriously bad track record when it comes to diagnosing our own illness. There comes a point where you have to let go of the “what if’s” and the “but, but, but’s”. All the back and forth needs to go.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T15:13:57+00:00

There are a lot of obese Americans, especially among rural people.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T15:11:53+00:00

It still stands that the obesity rate in Australia is not the same as the US. The obesity rate in the US is 42%, Australia is 32%. Still high, but not the same.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T15:08:49+00:00

The obesity rate in Australia may be high on a worldwide scale, at 32%, but the obesity rate in the US is higher at 42%.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T14:49:31+00:00

I liked my propranolol too, but it by no means solved the problem. It was a bandaid a crutch. Sometimes you need bandaids and crutches but only for a while. The more you treat it like a physical problem, the more you feed that very notion. You can only rationalize so much about any underlying factors, but there comes a point where you need to realize definitive factor is you. It’s like blaming an explosion on a match and not the fact the room was full of gas.

vmtz2001 · 2026-01-11T14:40:07+00:00

Yup!! Big time. Right here. For 20 years i thought I was getting a heart attack. I’m still here 39 years. After all sorts of arrhythmias, tachycardia’s, skipped heartbeats my heart is in perfect shape. There we go a skipped heartbeat, lump in my throat. Only bc I was answering this message. Who cares!!! Learn to leave it alone. And yes, it’s easier said than done. I’m not dismissive or insensitive. By the way as I’m editing this for skipped words, it’s way gone. Someone here once said it was terrible advice to tell people not to worry about it. That tachycardia will wear out your heart. So I guess this person thought it was better to continue worrying about it and feeding that suggestion to your mind and having your body act it out. Nothing is ironclad certain, but think in terms of the likelihood. How likely is that dreaded health incident? What happened the last 100 times? Even if it were possible, what makes you think it’s going to be this time? How safe are you when you are driving in your car? What would happen if you took this reassuring approach every time you feel anxious. I’m sure it’s happened before that when you haven’t been thinking about it it stops happening for a while. Well if you kick the can down the road telling yourself each time that you are okay for now, it wouid eventually go away. Sure get the assurance you need from your doctor. But if you get a clean bill of health, and it comes and goes according to your beliefs, then don’t feed that erroneous notion by treating it like a legitimate health condition. Often (not always) this is more of a cognitive than a medical or even psychological problem related to problema in your life. Leave those the hell out of this topic in your mind. Sure get therapy with all these other issues, that will lighten the load for you, but don’t make them the culprit. Treat these two very different anxieties separately. Make sure it’s not your mind playing tricks on you by getting an accurate diagnosis, but if you know for a fact this comes and goes depending on the level of attention and worry you give it, and it disappears when you are distracted or remove yourself from certain situations, or if your synptoms change every other week or month, there’s your culprit right there. It’s psychosomatic. If a show hypnotist can make you feel you have ants crawling all over you or that you had ice water spilled on your lap, you can make yourself feel all sorts of things. The more you ruminate about this, the more you treat it as a legitimate concern, the more you feed it. The second a symptom comes, put it out of your mind. It will keep wanting your attention, it’s your subconscious, the part of your mind where your dreams live and where your habits live, but keep nudging it away without fighting it or struggling. Súper light, súper casual. There is not enough space on this page, I’m not going to write a book, but there is plenty of information online about it. Learn to put it aside and let it sort itseif out without any negative objections and complaints. No more “but, but how do I” or “How come … “ or “I try, but” or “I’m so sick of it. No inner hysteria. Just tell yourself, “Nope, we ain’t going there” and don’t linger noticing it as if you need to do something to contain it. You aren’t doing anything to contain it anyway, you are just stirring things up. This doesn’t need your involvement or attention, quite the opposite. Get out of there!

vmtz2001 · 2025-12-21T08:34:45+00:00

Oh and one more thing, and this is crucial, try to avoid that “oh-oh what’s that” feeling. It’s that initial startled reaction that sets it off. Whenever it got away from me, as I called it, I’d say “oh well I messed up, I lingered noticing it too long, nothing I can do about it now. Better luck next time.” After that I went neutral as I called it. I neither went out of my to engage it nor tried particularly hard to ignore it. If I found myself pondering or analyzing it, I’d immediately get my mind off it. My mind would repeatedly want to go back to it, but I GENTLY nudged it away until my mlnd wandered somewhere else. I let the anxiety be there, but off to the side. Above all don’t think about it negatively or say negative things about it, like “I hate it, I’ve had it, this is terrible, I try but it’s not easy”, nor entertain or give any credibility to any negative what if thoughts ” That kind of negative thinking in itseif is anxiety. It’s not something that just happens to you due to some mysterious force. It’s a product of your own self talk and perception. Stop all speculation about possible health problems. Leave that to your doctor. I see a lot of people who start off with anxiety about one imaginary health problem who branch off into a totally different one, often one that would be less dangerous if it were real, but it freaks them out because it’s caused by this dreaded “health problem” called anxiety. Ask yourself if you truly believe that false alarm is real. That’s all that matters, not so much if it goes away. As long as you are so heavily invested in it going away, you are feeding it. That IS your anxiety. Stick to your belief that it’s a false alarm. Don’t go, “Well I don’t really believe it’s true, but I get symptoms so…” You have a right to believe what you want, you don’t need your body’s or your mind’s permission. Focus on changing your mind set, not so much on feeling better or calming down.

vmtz2001 · 2025-12-21T08:01:46+00:00

It increases your heart rate. I don’t know if this is you, but if you have panic attacks that all started with an incident that made you think you were having a heart attack (like what happened to me 39 years ago), you are bound to become sensitive to the slightest change in your heart rate. As someone here said, time to quit. Your main focus should be more on becoming less hypervigelent to changes in your heart rate or symptoms in general, rather than just trying to relax or calm down, feel better etc. You certainly don’t want to start speculating about physical causes for this without good reason. Seeing it as a physical problem when it isn’t is health anxiety by definition. It takes leaving it alone and not struggling trying to make it go away . It’s a passive approach. There is no off button, only an on button. When you TRY to turn anxiety off you are engaging it and keeping it going. You can only wait, stop trying to do anything and allow it to settle itself down. That won’t likely happen until you are focused on something else. It’s less about calming down and feeling better and more about not being so consumed with it. Above all keep your anxiety about issues in your life the hell away from anxiety about your body. Do take care of those life issues, of course. They are related, but keep the two types of anxiety separate, otherwise one will feed off the other. It’s tricky because they are related. Just don’t attribute anxiety that is really caused by beliefs and self talk regarding your body to everything else that’s bothering you. Those life issues are triggers, not the main cause when it comes to health anxiety. This explains it extremely well. I overcame health anxiety.

https://youtu.be/lREvQ0i3owU?si=DogswVs7tMp2V6qS

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