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Health Anxiety - anyone got any good ideas of how best to tackle it?

Kate Kestrel

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if many people on here struggle with health anxiety. 
Both myself and my son really struggle with this. Any unusual or uncomfortable bodily sensation and we start to panic that there’s something terribly wrong with us. Most of the time we just about manage to keep it vaguely under control - we reassure ourselves and hope it will just go away - but I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas about good ways of dealing with that  panicky feeling when we start catastrophizing over some physical sensation that troubles us. I’m so tired of struggling with this, and so sorry to see my son struggling with it too. 

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  • Aw Kate I feel for you and your son ... I suffer from health anxiety since my mum died pretty much. I find I feel and notice every little thing about my body. If I get an ache my thoughts race is it cancer? Is it brain tumour making me dizzy? Usually have a few voices throw in their opinions too. It's horrible isn't it just adds to the anxiety and makes everything you're feeling a lot worse. I think anxiety is actually one of the worst things out there. When my health anxiety kicks in I try to busy myself with things I enjoy to distract otherwise it just takes over and then I'm feeling a lot worse. Distractions don't solve it but they do help ease it.

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  • Aw Kate I feel for you and your son ... I suffer from health anxiety since my mum died pretty much. I find I feel and notice every little thing about my body. If I get an ache my thoughts race is it cancer? Is it brain tumour making me dizzy? Usually have a few voices throw in their opinions too. It's horrible isn't it just adds to the anxiety and makes everything you're feeling a lot worse. I think anxiety is actually one of the worst things out there. When my health anxiety kicks in I try to busy myself with things I enjoy to distract otherwise it just takes over and then I'm feeling a lot worse. Distractions don't solve it but they do help ease it.

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