Health Anxiety Getting Worse
Checked if the pounding feeling and pain in my chest was still there which it was.
Health anxiety getting worse. People with health anxiety might hold rigid definitions of good health perhaps believing that any discomfort whatsoever means bad health. Avoiding those experiences because you want to cope with your anxiety alone causes several issues that make anxiety worse. Health anxiety is a type of anxiety disorder.
What could it be. Angina heart attack saw it on casualty there it is again bit worse what else could it be. With health anxiety you may get a twinge in your chest aghhh is it worse.
People with health anxiety are preoccupied with having or acquiring a serious illness. Anxiety is a protective mechanism and scanning the body for an illness seems like the right thing to do to protect ourselves. Not your family not your friends.
Health anxiety is a condition that causes healthy people to worry that they are sick even when they have no symptoms or minor symptoms like a scratchy throat. However when we are preoccupied with something we tend to notice it. Some people forget that anxiety and depression have various branches within them which must be treated accordingly with specific medications therapy or a combination of both.
I read in paper about silent heart attacks could it be that. You need to exercise and have new experiences. Exercise and staying physically active and moving are essential for not only physical health but mental health as well.
Remind yourself that you are the one going through this. Inactivity easily the biggest problem is inactivity. A little bit of concern about our health is normal and even healthy.