About this episode

This episode explores the underlying causes of health anxiety and the cycle of fear associated with physical symptoms.

Do you struggle with health anxiety, body scanning, or constant fear that every symptom means something serious? In this episode, I explain why your health anxiety is rarely just about your health — and what may actually be driving the fear beneath the symptoms. If you constantly worry about headaches, chest pain, dizziness, heart palpitations, lumps, breathing changes, or other physical symptoms, you may feel trapped in an exhausting cycle of Googling, checking, reassurance-seeking, and over...

People in this episode

Host: Julie Chal

Topics covered

• health anxiety
• mental health
• body scanning
• fear of symptoms
• reassurance-seeking

Keywords

• health anxiety
• body scanning
• symptoms
• fear
• mental health

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