{"id":129943,"date":"2020-11-27T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/129943"},"modified":"2020-11-27T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T01:24:00","slug":"how-to-deal-with-health-anxiety-and-hypochondria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/129943","title":{"rendered":"How To Deal With Health Anxiety and Hypochondria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Deal With Health Anxiety and Hypochondria\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4-hhWqi2rg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>This video is long, but it\u2019s packed full of information. Here is a breakdown. I answer the following questions:\nWhat does hypochondria\/health anxiety look like?\nWhat\u2019s the difference between hypochondria and generalized anxiety disorder?\nHow do you get hypochondria?\nWhy don\u2019t pills work for hypochondria?\nWhat does CBT for hypochondria-health anxiety look like?\nWhat is a self-help version of CBT for hypochondria?\n\nWith hypochondriasis, you misinterpret body sensations and assume you have a serious disease, even after you\u2019ve been told you don\u2019t. You may believe that the doctor missed something. You may even believe the anxiety you have will turn into something more serious like dying in your sleep or having a heart attack.\n\nIn 2013, the new edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual 5th edition changed the name from hypochondriasis to somatic symptom disorder. Somatic means body. Therefore, it\u2019s a disorder of being over focused on body symptoms and having an illness. People who have this problem, know they have it because they are in a lot of distress. \n\nSelf-talk script to use when you are triggered by a body sensation.\nI have been checked out by my doctor, my new body symptoms does not mean I really have a medical illness. I have anxiety and this is what I tend to think,. Anxiety makes me believe I have something I don\u2019t. I am not more of a medical expert than the people who have seen and examined lots of sick people. I don\u2019t know what sick people look like, I only know what I look like. I don\u2019t have a point of comparison to know what the illness I\u2019m concerned about really looks like. The internet will not give me a complete picture of what it really looks like to have [fill in the blank with the illness you\u2019re worried about. \n\nDisclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific\/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments\/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor.\n\nI upload every Wednesday at 9am, and sometimes have extra videos in between. Subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss a video https:\/\/goo.gl\/DFfT33","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is long, but it\u2019s packed full of information. Here is a breakdown. I answer the following questions: What does hypochondria\/health anxiety look like? What\u2019s the difference between hypochondria and generalized anxiety disorder? How do you get hypochondria? Why don\u2019t pills work for hypochondria? What does CBT for hypochondria-health anxiety look like? What is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/129943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Deal With Health Anxiety and Hypochondria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[41221,471,41476,52813,42615,43299,43297,43303,43298,34588,43293,43291,43295,43301,43290,33837,43292,43306,43294,43296,38676,43305,43302,43304,43289,43300,55224,55223,34063,55225,55226,55227,53244,55228,55229,40487,40488],"class_list":["post-129943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-dr-tracey-marks","tag-health","tag-health-anxiety-help","tag-health-anxiety-relief","tag-health-anxiety-symptoms","tag-health-first","tag-health-fusion","tag-health-warrior-chia-bar","tag-health-workers-infected-worldwide","tag-healthy","tag-healthy-banana-bread","tag-healthy-breakfast","tag-healthy-breakfast-ideas","tag-healthy-cookbook","tag-healthy-dinner-ideas","tag-healthy-food","tag-healthy-food-near-me","tag-healthy-food-recipes-free","tag-healthy-lunch-ideas","tag-healthy-meals","tag-healthy-recipes","tag-healthy-sexy-hair","tag-healthy-sleep-habits-happy-child","tag-healthy-snack-box","tag-healthy-snacks","tag-healthy-snacks-for-kids","tag-how-to-deal-with-health-anxiety","tag-how-to-deal-with-health-anxiety-and-hypochondria","tag-hypochondria","tag-hypochondria-anxiety","tag-hypochondria-help","tag-hypochondria-meditation","tag-hypochondria-symptoms","tag-hypochondriac-symptoms","tag-hypochondriasis-disorder","tag-mental-health-channel","tag-mental-health-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}