What is Health Anxiety?

Health Anxiety ( hypochondria) is where worries about health ( worrying about being ill or becoming ill), begins to have a big impact on your life.

People with health anxiety may:

• Often worry about their health. 
• Often check their body for signs of illness (lumps, abnormalities).
• Often ask for reassurance from others that they aren't ill.
• Worry about the doctor/ tests missing things.
• Look at lots of online health information/ advice.
• Avoid things featuring serious illness (tv programmes, news)
• Acting ill just in case you were ill (avoiding strenuous activity etc.)
• Mistake their anxiety symptoms as signs for illness.

Ask yourself: Have you worried about your health in the past? How did you manage these worries?

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