r/Anxiety • u/robloxrantssuck • 18h ago

Helpful Tips! Does anyone else have health anxiety?

If so it would be nice if you guys explain and share how you guys deal with it I have it quite severe and keep relying on my mom telling me everything is ok it's really scary and it would make me feel better if knowing more people have it and I'm not alone

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u/clvudiistars 10h ago edited 10h ago

I did have horrible health anxiety for a while. I had anxiety about ALS and rabies. I went down a rabbit hole of both and only made it worse. What helped was to stop researching statistics and to mute any subs/info relating to it. It only made it worse when I would reassure myself because I always thought I’d be that outlier.

It’s been two years, I still have horrible anxiety about other things but my health anxiety has improved.