Hypochondria

I sadly can't tell you how I deal with it but if it helps : I struggle extremely with health related anxiety. I hate living with that anxiety so I can tell you I know how hard it is. I'm sorry for you and I wish you the best : )

But what kinda helps me is when I feel a symptom and the anxiety comes up and I'm thinking it's something serious, I think like this: "i already had those symptoms and nothing bad happened so now it's not a different thing"

@prettyincamo765 this is a late response, but I struggle with anxiety and honestly it's kind of a trial and error when it comes to finding what will help in terms of coping.

In my experience I've found that physical activity, deep breathing excercises, talking about any and all the stresses that could be triggering the anxiety are helpful

Anxiety can feel overwhelming but it's important to remember that you're in control and YOU have the ability to relax what's going on internally. 

It may not ever really go away sadly BUT as you find things that help you, than it becomes a bit more easier to cope with because you'll be able to say, ok I'm feeling anxiety right now what can I do to help myself in this moment.

Hope this helped :)

I live with it constantly, you are not alone! I’m trying to learn how to cope with it, but what I do for now to get by is look at all the times when that health anxiety has happened compared to when it hasn’t (if it even ever has) and that sometimes helps depending on what part of health stuff it is. When I physically feel any sort of new symptom I try to just talk myself down from it being something crisis, and reflect on other times when I experienced something new and nothing that bad happened and if something bad did come from it then I go back to the first step and look at all the times I’ve been okay and try to positively reframe it. It’s hard but it does help a little.

Health anxiety is a struggle I’m sorry you also deal with this!