When Every Symptom Feels Like a Threat
When someone has health anxiety, they will notice symptoms and jump to the worst-case scenario about what these symptoms are. For example, if they have a stomach pain, they worry it could be bowel cancer. If they have a chest pain, they think they are a heart problem.
Sometimes health anxiety can expand and as well as worry about your own health, you worry about the health of those around you. We begin to see potential harmful physical conditions in all our symptoms, symptoms that perhaps in the past, you would not have even noticed.
Sometimes health anxiety can expand and as well as worry about your own health, you worry about the health of those around you. We begin to see potential harmful physical conditions in all our symptoms, symptoms that perhaps in the past, you would not have even noticed.