Blood Pressure Anxiety. How To Stop Checking and Start Living | EP 342

About this episode

This episode discusses how a health habit like monitoring blood pressure can lead to anxiety and obsessive behavior.

If you recognize the sound of a Velcro rip and your heart starts to pound the minute you hear that familiar hum, we need to talk. You likely bought a home blood pressure monitor to feel safer and healthier, but now you might feel like a slave to a rubber tube and a plastic screen. In this episode, we are looking at how a responsible health habit turns into a psychological nightmare in the form of fixation and obsessive fear. We discuss why blood pressure anxiety happens, often in the complete...

People in this episode

Host: Drew Linsalata

Topics covered

• blood pressure anxiety
• health habits
• psychological effects
• fixation
• obsessive fear

Keywords

• blood pressure
• anxiety
• health
• monitoring
• psychological effects
• fixation
• obsession

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