How To Overcome Health Anxiety #4
3) Don’t Ask Yourself How You Feel:
If you have health anxiety then you probably ask yourself how you feel hundreds of times more often than someone who does not. This can lead to you noticing even the slightest physical sensations that most people would never notice or be aware of.
And then when you notice a physical symptom you’ll begin to monitor it obsessively, constantly asking yourself it feels worse or if it feels better.
People who do not have health anxiety simply to not think like this, so it should be your goal to stop this way of thinking.
The best first step to take to stop this kind of thinking is to give yourself routines and tasks to complete at the times of the day when your mind is most likely to wander onto the subject of, “How do I feel?”