What Is Health Anxiety? (THE DEEPEST UNDERSTANDING) 

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I have pretty extreme health anxiety but, I'm slowly healing myself ❤️

I've convinced myself of HIV, Stomach and colon cancer, Brain aneurysms and heart attacks. Ugh! I'm so ready to live my life the way I want...worry free. My doctor wants me on SSRIs and I refuse.

Binge watching and feeling more positive with each video

I have health Anxiety about Heart attack ....even my doctor says you are ok ..... negativity takes place all the time

I find reading these comments and being able to relate to other peoples anxiety I stop thinking about my symptoms, it is so helpful

Thank you! I will try these three steps. I’m sick and tired of health anxiety. It’s debilitating. I’m loosing friends, and my family thinks I’m faking it for attention. I just want to hide from everything and everyone. It would be five days me being feeling amazing and than out of the blue severe anxiety. I’m drained mentally and physically. I don’t want to loose my job. Thank you Denis for all you do for people ❤️

I’m 60 years old! I have health anxiety and have had since childhood. Dennis, you have me down to a tea. I have lost weight, very little appetite. Shake all the time. Have gone to my doctor. She saw right away what was happening. Put me on Prozac, which is helping. But like everyone else with type of anxiety, I have the worse case senecio. This is a difficult path. Your videos are helping me. Anyone else have this, please reply.

waking up at 430am with the tightness creeping up from my chest to my throat...my least favorite feeling ever.

I have always had fears about my health and I have banned myself from google a thousand times. However, I can't unread what I have read in the past and for me it is a vicious cycle. I have horrible anxiety all the time, but lately it has been worse at night, I have made myself very sick in the past with panic attacks. I know when I am having one that it is just in my head, but I always go to the "what if this time it really is a heart attack, what if this time it isn't just a panic attack and I ignore it." My mom is the best at getting my mind off of it, but there are a few times when I had to hear it from a doctor. I really hope I can start finding ways to conquer my fears, and stop getting frustrated when I have trouble doing so right away. I know it takes time. I just found your videos, and I am happy I did, because for once I looked up something that made me feel better; instead of scaring me and making me feel worse.

It's amazing how many scary health related commercials come on before these videos.....lol. Seeking help for these health anxiety issues and a heart attack/afib/cancer commercial comes on before the vid!! I know you don't control this Dennis. You are a great human being and have tremendoulsy helped me and so many others. I find comfort in your voice, your love, and guidance when I hit the wall on a daily basis. I am father, son, husband who has lost so much because of this ailment. But, I am a Warrior and more than anxiety! I am beating this slowly but surely. I will not let this rob anymore time from me or my family. You have helped me do that. I can't truly express how much that means to me and how with your help you have saved me from the depths of despair. Thank you so very much. I love you my friend!!

this is one of the best channels for health anxiety because the guy can relate

I favorited this video about 8 months ago, at the peak of my health anxiety. First time sufferer back then. I have just returned to it because after a few solid months of being free of the anxiety, it returned with a vengeance yesterday. A small lump behind my ear was the trigger. But it could have been anything. I believe there are deeper things at play, deeper meanings, maybe even dare I say it experiences when very young of being sick and not being helped, being alone with our deep fear and confusion about what was happening. And now all these years later it has resurfaced. I don't know. Anyway, your video has been a godsend for me this day, has has going to see a very sympathetic doctor who helped me a lot last year. God bless us all.

It has been so helpful to find someone who has experience and specializes in health anxiety

Ive been watching your RU-vid videos and listening to your podcasts for over 3 and a half months. It is such a relief to find someone who has been through what I have been through for the past 13 years. Ive decided to purchase your program. Thank you :)

Health anxiety is something so many deal with and this is the best video out there to explain it, thank u

the deepest understanding I have ever heard about this malady,,real speak,,real talk

You are brilliant to listen to and fill me with enthusiasm for a better life. You are so describing me and yes I am a really sensitive individual. Thank you sir. ❤️❤️

Wow, I really needed to hear this. I already had an incling that anxiety was about bad thinking habits but when the physical symptoms started appearing, it began to reinforce the feedback loop of fear. I'm relieved to know that these are normal in the sense that other people go through it as well. Many thanks to you, Dennis.

Dennis, this vid was excellent!! You are so right in saying we are VERY SENSITIVE people. I'm sensitive to light, sound, motion, textures, colours, touch, cold, etc. and was said to be on the autism spectrum. My health anxiety was caused by physical trauma that needed doctors, and physical therapists. It was so frightening that it lead to severe panic attacks and agoraphobia of the worst kind. It has been a year and a half later and I am improving with health anxiety! I don't watch TV except for the weather (I need to know because I am a wheelchair girl going outside)! I listen to up building music and music with FOREIGN language lyrics that cannot sway my opinions left nor right!!! Great vid! And I'll check out your website! I'm interested in the books you have about health anxiety!!!

I rarely reply to videos on RU-vid, but this content is way different. My friend, you are absolutely unique and a beautiful human being. I have been suffering of this exact thing for 12 years on and off. And I only now realized what it actually is. So I never knew, imagine that. Battling a wind mill. It made me strong and a good leader, overcoming my fears. However not knowing what it was created loads of ocd patterns, ruminating, coping techniques and isolation at times. All of that stood in the way of whom I actually could be. Now I know what I'm facing. Exactly. Thank you. This video might have just saved my entire life.

Everytime I eat I think I'm allergic to something and my throat feels like its closing, I don't know what to do...

I have exactly what you talk about. Doctor/ER your fine nothing wrong. I just don’t accept it and suffer. Constant health fears passing out/ heart attack etc. Your outlook is so hopeful.

Just discovered you channel. Lots of good videos I need to catch up on. I have severe anxiety that manifests as physical symptoms and often ruins my quality of life. Already watched a few videos that were very helpful. Subbed Thanks!

Thank you for all your videos. They have really helped me with my panic attacks. 😁

I think I've been dealing with health anxiety for a year now, but it never really set in till just recently, I actually just had a pretty serious panic attack a couple days ago and I don't think I was ever more terrified. Every night I get worried, every night I can't help but think about it. I've been watching your videos for a couple hours now and I'm so happy you have had the same experiences and can really explain what this is. I'm currently taking notes on your 10 step plan and I'm very excited to see how it plays out, again thank you so much for uploading these videos.

Really resonated with me. Giving me a lot to think about. Thank you.

I buy your program tomorrow(payday). You've been helping me every step of the way. From my first panic attack (June 14th) until today. Recovery has been a zigzagged line, but nonetheless, I am recovering, one block at a time. Thank you for helping me with with this challenging period in my life.

Brilliant analogy with the soccer situation. Thank you Dennis for all your inputs and guidance.

Thankyou so much for sharing your amazing insight... So much of what you say im like, OMG thats me, or yessss i can relate... I dont talk to many people about what im going through so having your video's to watch and learn from is so amazing.. I do know and believe that everything we go through in life has a deeper meaning and when you get to the other side of what may be your darkest hour brings you so much light.. I know this as i myself have been through times that i thought am i ever going to get past this? am i ever going to feel normal again(what's normal by the way lol) and right now is kind of one of those's times.. Im just so grateful to the universe that i have come to know you through these RU-vid video's :) Thankyou again..

very true. I appreciate you and ur videos. The other day my best friend was telling me ocd is also in the way that we think. I have ocd each day is a new day to get stronger and beat anxiety!

I was diagnosed with severe anxiety at 5 years old. Everyone blamed my hearing loss on the anxiety. Being so young and told that I have it, meant that I wasn’t “normal”. I got homeschooled for a few years, bounced schools for awhile. I’ve lost 25-30 family and friends since 2010. I’ve seen someone try to commit suicide in my own school. I was the tough one, I understood death and I wasn’t scared of it. There was one one I was scared when they put me on anxiety medicine at 6 years old, but I never was scared again for it. December 2017 I started experiencing anxiety attacks, legit heart racing ones. The anxiety I knew never did that to me... that was my first real “heart attack” scare. I’m a big girl, so I’ve always used I have heart problems I can’t do that as an excuse... sounds bad but I used to say that in middle school. So when I get scared to walk or exercise, because of my heart working a little extra, I try to remind myself that I’ve climbed a 3,000 ft mountain, and I try to remind myself what I HAVE done that this little bit isn’t going to hurt me at all. It wasn’t until last year that I started having health anxiety, and I know why I have it. My whole life I didn’t really want to live, I didn’t care if I died. I wasn’t suicidal, but I was depressed and always negative, smoked pot and drank, smoked 35 cigarettes a day.... I didn’t care. But after December 2017’s anxiety attack I quit smoking, quit drinking and quit pot. Then I changed the people I hung out with, I befriended my parents again. I started valuing my life more and myself... and that’s when my fear of health started. Because I started WANTING to live. So ever little thing is scary because I want to be here. I don’t know first hand anything about health anxiety, this is my first video. I’m just learning that it’s actually called something. For a year I’ve been telling people no I’m not a hypochondriac, but maybe I am. I can’t deny the anxiety. I have to work with it, anxiety has harmed me just as much as it has saved my life. I believe we’re given tools in life, and one of my tools is anxiety. I need to use this tool for the better, not the worst. You could say I’m a “pro” at dealing with regular anxiety... but health anxiety I’m a total noob. I’ve been working on healing myself for a year now, loving myself instead of hating myself. I changed WHAT I watch on tv, I changed my friends, I changed some of the music. (Not depressing music anymore, but can’t stand to lose the rap) so I guess I just need to work on my thoughts. I’m trying to wrist band thing, I fell asleep watching this video last night after having a little anxiety, so you could say the advice is great! I’m 19 years old, I’ve been graduated from highschool 2 years ago this month, I have my license, I have my legs, i have eyes... I’m great!! Now I just have to get the appreciative thoughts on replay in my head. It could always be worse, so I need to thank the lord for what I have, and I need to use anxiety for the best. One of my biggest regrets that I think feeds anxiety, i wanted to be a surgeon for a long time... so I read and read and watched and watched things online, so I have all of the knowledge that I don’t need and don’t know what to do with. That feeds the anxiety, a lot.

thank you for your videos. I got health anxiety just over a year ago when I had a real bad sickness bug,I started Googling my different symptoms and I convinced myself I had about 50 different diseases despite going through vigorous tests at hospital. I've suffered really bad since,despite being extremely healthy and fit. I convince myself daily I have something else wrong with me despite nothing I've ever thought to be wrong with me ever being real. I'm trying my hardest to recover,some days I'm ok but I'll soon be back in the hole where I'm suffering. Even typing this on here has made me feel better to be honest. maybe I should book up to see a CBT therapist to help me

I love this. Best explanation by far.

Thank you for your videos they are truly the best.

I am going to listen to you for three months

Loved this. Thanks Dennis xx

You have helped me soooooooo much. Thank you for all you do. I refuse to allow this to control my life.

Great talk, every single thing you described is me!!!

Thank you Dennis.That really helped.I thought I'm lost and totally alone in this.You really helped a lot.Blessings.

Thank you so much.

Your video's are amazing brother! I thought I was the only one that did this until I started looking for answers.

great videos glad i have found this channel. i have recently been dignosed with health anxiety after my pregnancy didnt go to plan, Thanks for the vids

Thanks Dennis, you are clever..

Thank you SO much for your video's Dennis. You have helped me so much. My husband watched this video tonight. I am really needing his support and he asked me if you could suggest a video for him to watch on how to better support me in my health anxiety recovery.

Thank you.

just watched it dennis omg your getting better and better you really speak from the heart and really help us understand im paying attetion always if i had the money for the 1on 1 's your the man i would invest in talk soon :)

inspirational video

Great video i love this..thanks for sharing

this was amazing!! Thanks. when you said "everything is going to be ok" (sugar coated) it literally made me laugh out loud. it just seemed so out of character for how you truely are. so glad that you don't sugar coat.

Thank you. I even got DP.

I convinced myself that I had MS when I was just suffering from a reaction to a medication for three months now I’m convinced that I will have more bad reactions if I take any medication and every time I get dizzy or get a weird feeling I’m convinced I’m gonna pass out or have a seizure.

I truly wish i could afford your programme. I just bought your book and will be saving for it though

I have had a very similar experience to yours, Dennis. I have convinced myself for years that I have some illness that the doctors just couldn't figure out... I even traveled to the Mayo clinic because I began to distrust my GP and thought they were the most credible . I have come to accept mostly that my physical body is ok, I have a plethora of labs and tests to show me this. My health anxiety has moved to concerns about my mental health. I constantly think there is something more "wrong" with me than anxiety, even though I have been in therapy for years and only have a GAD and panic disorder diagnosis. I feel like this concern about mental health is even worse than the thought of the physical body being ill. I'm constantly scared I'm going to go crazy. I am very jumpy and hate being by myself. I get scared I'm going to do something embarrassing or going to show everyone that I'm crazy somehow and I will be locked up in a psych ward and lose my family. The one thing that I have noticed is that everytime something physical is ruled out, I start to get more scared about my mental health. I am constantly scared... of what feels like everything. I have been watching your videos and they have been helping me get through the day lately. Thank you for sharing your story with us.

I totally agree with everything you said. My problem is I have to get blood work that I haven't had done in years and I'm so worried about it. But!!! I think getting it done is gonna be a big step for me to start to recover. Once I get these tests done I think I won't worry as much. Health anxiety sucks!!! I've lived like this for 25 years. It's so hard to stop this pattern of living. But I want to change so bad

Hey Dennis I've been struggling with health anxiety for over a month and a half now. I'm only 16 and my entire summer has been taken up by this seemingly unstoppable fear; my symptoms have become pretty acute and lead to slight depression and even swelling in my ankles from all the stress. I feel like I've fallen into an inescapable rabbit hole but I'm motivated to get better it's very difficult.

Thank you this helped me a lot. I have been suffering from this recently (constant thoughts that I have a terminal illness like cancer etc) and am taking counselling sessions at my school. Has anyone ever experienced something exactly like this and recovered well? If so how? It has been taking over my life until recently where I have been getting slightly better. I've almost been stuck in a constant cycle. I've felt bad and had a thought and psychosomatic pain only made it worse, further amplifying the thoughts that I'm going to die horribly

I went to the dr about my arm and she basically dimissed it because they all know i have anxiety. She said yo come back ina week. So now i cant seem to get real help from the dr because they just dimiss everything i say even though im going through something real.

I have health anxiety. I get sinus infections about twice a year where my sense of smell gets weak for a couple of weeks. The doctors tell me it'll come back but my head always says it wont. I get terrified. I met with my psychologist recently who believes it's in my head that I feel like I cant smell. I also feel like my nose gets swollen. He said trust me you gave GAD and health anxiety like 2 plus 2 equals 4. He said it's in your head you have to realize thar your mind cause truly cause symptoms like this. Once you do that you'll start to feel better.

When you’re going about your day, feeling fine, not worrying about anything and you suddenly feel a symptom; a pain on one side of your head, a sensation in your chest, etc, how do you know if it’s caused by an old emotion, a conditioning in your subconscious or a recent or past fear and how do you eliminate your immediate worried response to that symptom?

Brilliant video Dennis what was the book you got Robyn?

hey Dennis..I suffered a head injury 5 years back and 2 weeks after the injury I started feeling dizzy and weak..I thought doctor left the stitches in head and those threads gonna invade my brain and that's y I'm dizzy. that day and this feeling started growing on me and I wasn't me. IBS stuck next after 2-3 months of this injury which became IBD and now I'm getting all the symptoms in the world.sleep gone and it's GAD 24*7. MRI of head showed nothing but here I am getting crawling feel beneath my scalp..right side of body especially leg feels numb..tailbone pains..neck stiff and painful..eyes itching and temples paining .. headaches and what not..a constant feel24*7 that something gonna happen..sleep deprived from years feeling of weekness in entire body..zero memory..concentration..I'm brave enough to try to get Outta this but sometimes it gets me..Any help will be welcome..

hellow Dennis I'm from Nepal. and I have anxiety since five year.. one day I look to my photo and damn that single thought make me anxious and depressed. again one suicidal news again depressed me. since a two month I'm suffered from suicidal depression. I try every thing to get safe and feeling little good and this anxiety don't wanted to leave me. I cut off many friends, newspaper, movies, youtube and even Facebook. this is just too much. but today I've found exact answer. thank you so much. I have followed your channel just two or three week. I daily watch your video of affirmation for anxiety. I'm crying man your this video is so great..this thought is pulling me crazy..I wanted to get out of this anxiety..this is too much..plz help..and one this wants to say you are doing great.

One trigger I have is If someone asks " are you ok?"

The Anxiety Guy explains anxiety so perfectly! I am so thankful I discovered this channel.

It's real and I am think because of gut problems. And I am changing my diet to no grain no pain. I hope it's work.

As someone with health anxiety, I feel like there is some stuff in the beginning about symptoms need a trigger warning

I have had health anxiety since my teens. I now do it about my family. Its terrible. Have had years of therapy. Hate terrified to go to doctors

It's really not easy, all that you have said its true. But its really taking so much emotionally and mentally.... Nevertheless as I have said on the other video I'm not sure why I came across this Anxiety video, but then it insightful. Thank you.

When my doctor tests kept coming back fine yet I still had all the symptoms I decided to do some one on one sessions with Dennis on skype and it was the best decision I could have made. he really cares and has the best resources for recovery . #warriorjustin

Thankyou ❤️

Would you happen to have any tips on dealing with alot of stress and them turning into worries ? I currently have alot of stressors going on in my life and It can get difficult not to let the worries or stress consume you. Thank you!

sounds just like me lol. thanks for the video

I really need help with my anxiety... if it's even what I have.. I feel so weird and scared all the time :(

Health anxiety is simply your subconscious mind opining the emotional repression you have not addressed in life. Your subconscious mind has the agency to throw additional fear and anxiety at you if you are resistant (whether inadvertent or advertent to the change it wants you to make. I have suffered from dissociation too, which allows the victim of it to access the subconscious mind to a greater capacity. My emotional repression was, and still is, the ignoring of grief - lost someone invaluable as a child.

Could you explain why I am always in panic attack when I wasn't able to fall asleep at the right time. Like I was not able to sleep earlier than 1am the past 3 days then I was like serious panicking afraid of I don't even know why I just like getting out of the bed and my breath is like I'm catching it/ hyperventilating then I was like feeling unsafe. Plesse help

Very helpful

I am 32 years old and have been suffering from this problem from the age of 15. Only this year have I admitted to myself that I actually have this problem. Yesterday, I came from the doctor who checked my heart via ECG. Results came out normal. My health anxiety is so extreme that I actually have some physical consequences from it. I have a mouth inflammatory condition (Oral Lichen Planus) where I have pain my mouth and some white lines that appear inside my mouth and on my tongue. The doctor said that there is no clear understanding for the reason of my condition but I am certain it is caused by my anxiety. At the moment my condition is not serious but if it gets worse it can become more serious. The question I have Dennis is, how do I stop thinking about this and checking it in the mirror 20 times a day? My silly actions can make things even worse. Please help...

I have got vibration feeling in my left arm sometimes, please tell me if this is normal Please please

I have 15 days to get my shit together. is it possible? right now im agoraphobic and slowly getting better at going places around my house for short periods of time but in 15 day i need to go out of town to take the LSAT. Do I have enough time to build up my strength?

I believe I have health anxiety. every symptom I experience I think i have a disease and dying. I live in fear everyday I have a disease that the Dr is missing. I always Google symptoms which I been told to stop because the internet isn't fully honest.

Does anyone else experience these wierd sudden tremors and twitches on random parts of the body? Arm, leg, lip, cheek, chest muscle, etc?

I have been physically active for years go to the gym in about 5 years no problem and then all of a sudden after an intense work out i started sweating and felt like i am in a false world i can't stand i was just so horrified that is when my heart starts beating so fast i was shaking thoight i was going to have a heart attack or die ....i called my sister and we went to.the doctor i got my cbc ,potassium, sugar , bp and thyroid(tsh and ft4) tested everything came out well the doctor said i am alright ... Then i felt ok after couple of days i started worrying again cause feel like i have pressure in my ear i have palpitations again i feel like i can't trust the test what if there was just a mistakes on the test i liveD on "what if's" for couple of days ...i went back to the doctor yold her what i was going through she prescribed me anti-depressant pill that i dont take beacause in my thought what if it is not anxiety wjat if it is something more serious? I can't exercise now cause of these fears

I have lots of sensations on my head and neck ... clicking sounds keep comming from my head and neck my doc says it's just anxiety and doesn't want me to go for tests but iam worried!! I have jelly legs and trembling hand most of the time.

OK my panic attacks have gone down I would say 80% and I feel like my depersonalization has subsided quite a bit as well but I still sit here and wonder and question reality and what's going on in my head constantly in fear of going crazy I know I'm not going crazy like I'm going to harm other people or anything like that just losing touch with reality

What about if you have real health issues + health anxiety that make me think I have more issues?

I made the decision to get recovery from this now because I refuse to let this anxiety live my life instead of me live my life.

How about heart palpitations, how much did you get them with health anxiety and GAD

Anyone experience tinitus sometimes in the morning, afternoon, sometimes for hours? I've been diagnosed with anxiety and stress based headache but lately tinitus have become more frequent, usually in one, sometimes in other ear. And sometimes it's gone in a second and in a minute it's back one. Also tingling feeling all over the body, not only arms and legs :(

My catastrophic thinking is now worst that i Always think much negatively any bad words i hear will keep disturbing my mind each time

Hi Dennis, I think I am so anxious of feeling pain, how do I deal with this?

what do u suggest for body numbness & sensory loss??

hi dennis i have a question..what do you mean about picking the right music? what music should we listen to?

I think I have health anxiety and it’s got worse I get panic attacks because I feel like I’m going to die and I don’t wanna die and I start shaking and recently it has come into my life. I hope its health anxiety and not something I think I have.

Anyone gets sharp body pain like stomachs ache

hi ..can trauma cause health anxiety?.wen I was 3 years old I was physically abused by my biological father...I'm 53 now and I remember it😢..I have had health anxiety for at least 40 years😕at times I think I'm better off dead as it's just to much each day to cope with ..it's horrendous😮

I convinced people i was sick too and out of caring they would tell me to go to the dr. When i got to the dr i didnt even know why i was there because i KNEW nothing was really wrong. Sometimes i woukd go to the dr and just leave before the dr called me. Or the er too.:( Usually when my anxiety gets bad i will call my super logical friends and based on facts they will talk me out of it. I love my logical friends. Lol Recently i cut myself with a rusty razor in the shower and went to the er. They gave me a tdqp shot even tho there aas no risk cus i havent had one in ten yrs. Now my arm had been hurting for 2 weeks which is longer than most people. Now im extremely worried about having permanent damage and mad at myself that i let them give me that shot for no reason! I feel like sometimes i dont use my own brain.

How did you learn to trust doctors? For instance, I had a bit high WBC, doctor physically examined me, noted a viral component and extreme stress, and said I am fine, just a reaction to viral stuff. She even did a differential. Had another doctor and ARNP read it as well and they said the exact same thing. I cant get over the hump

I get a lot of this everyday, last 6 months bad. I mean all I did was google better breathing patterns and heard a negative thing and now I feel like I have wrong breathing. Patterns. I’m always taking deep breaths now throughout the day and I never noticed it before. Did you have a fear of breathing patterns

What if they think about negative thoughts all the time and negative future predictions until it manifest into reality, as what law of attraction said. Thoughts becomes words words becomes actions and actions becomes reality. We think we would die in the future because of symptoms poping up, we tell our friends and family that were having a serious illness, we go to the doctor and have a check up and might manifest into reality after? Is it possible?