Health Anxiety: How to BREAK the Cycle

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Health Anxiety: How to Break the Cycle

It is difficult to perceive when you are in the middle of an episode of health anxiety that the disorder is a self-perpetuating cycle. But all anxiety disorders and OCD, including Health Anxiety are fed, maintained and reinforced by a self-perpetuating cycle. Your own behaviors or responses to your anxiety itself keeps the cycle going.

There are primarily 5 steps to the Health Anxiety Cycle:

Step 1: The cycle begins with noticing an unpleasant bodily sensation like a sore throat, palpitation or perhaps seeing a mole.

Step 2: Your brain interprets this sensation or visual as alarming and dangerous.

Step 3: Your anxiety and worry builds, and you become more hyper-vigilant and focus more on your sensations and how you are feeling.

Step 4: You try to calm yourself and attempt to bring your anxiety down. You begin to do certain behaviors like seek reassurance, check on your body status, avoid certain activities, or google information.

Step 5: Your behaviors from Step 4 have managed to bring your anxiety down a little. However, it is a trap. Now your brain believes the only reason you have survived is because you did those particular behaviors. Those behaviors have inadvertently reinforced the health anxiety cycle. And, you will most likely have similar urges to do those behaviors the next time that you find yourself feeling concerned about your health.

The good news is that there are several effective ways to BREAK the Health Anxiety Cycle.

Should you need help with your recovery from Health Anxiety, here is more information on my online therapy course:

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If you missed Part One to this series on Health Anxiety called, "Health Anxiety: What is Your Type?"

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