Health Anxiety

❤️ Health Anxiety Sufferer. Nearly a decade consumed with fear and anxiety over health/death. It’s no life to live!! Let’s help each other ❤️😁

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

Just randomly opened my bible...landed on this page “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

If you consciously do things to avoid anxiety you will undoubtedly experience more anxiety.

Avoiding anxiety isn't recovery, it's the root cause of your illness.

Learning to not fear what we feel and to allow ourselves to see anxiety's harmlessness: That's recovery.

#anxiety

[Paul David @anxietynomoreuk]

You will never find happiness through the acceptance of others, you will only find it within yourself, when you do you won't care what others think

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@CrushAnxietyNow Absolutely 100%

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

The key turning point in your journey to recovery will be the realization that thoughts aren’t reality.

This allows you to lose your fear of/change your reaction to them. Fearful reactions are the underlying cause of anxiety disorders.

Stop fearing your imagination.

#anxiety

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

The irony of recovery is that the critical skill you need to learn is the ability to willingly feel anxiety.

Your constant effort to suppress it, run from it, etc. is what is perpetuating it.

What you are doing isn’t working. Understand how the body works and change.

#anxiety

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

The amygdala is responsible for the fight/flight response. It operates off memory.

When you avoid a situation it remembers. However, when you face a situation and nothing bad happens it also remembers.

Changing habits changes memories which changes/heals the brain.

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[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

Anxiety disorders involve getting caught up in/scared by our imaginations.

When the brain imagines something and we react, we validate what we imagined as being real. This starts the "anxiety cycle".

Learning to lose fear of what we imagine is key to recovery.

#anxiety

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@BethMatthewsz It makes me REALLY angry too! Why is it people are so interested when they have died and not when they are alive?

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

It's one thing to say you're not afraid. However, it's critical to BEHAVE like you're not afraid.

If you tell yourself you're not afraid but still engage in compulsions in certain situations the body won't believe you.

Behavioral change is the foundation of recovery.

#anxiety

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@Teresadrury9 @21WIRE @kbeanie93 Your a disgrace to the Trust you worked for. Take some pictures? What about confidentiality? Good god. What an absolute idiot

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@Rubes25607778 @Reprobate24 @21WIRE @itsnotheory No you won’t film and post!!! Patient confidentiality you absolute imbecile

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

My health anxiety fears:

1) Losing my mind
2) Heart attack/Heart stopping
3) Stroke
4) Unconsciousness

Of course, none of these happened. My brain was so sensitized that it interpreted the symptoms of sensitization as deadly.

I was afraid of feelings caused by fear.

#anxiety

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@CrushAnxietyNow How did you get out of this cycle. I think every sensation is sinister and either going to kill or seriously impair me.

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@noanxietythanks It doesn’t know you are pretending does it?

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@ronnylg123 @noanxietythanks With regards to anxiety disorder it’s extremely important to know about your fear centre aka limbic system

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@frontier1r @UndisScot Could you PM me please.

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@noanxietythanks Health anxiety and the issue of thoughts around symptoms

[Health Anxiety @HealthAnxiety2]

@ronnylg123 @noanxietythanks @PNWStormChasers You dont change your thoughts you change your ‘reaction’ to your thoughts. If everyone who suffers could just choose their thoughts they wouldn’t choose the fearful thoughts!

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

Recovery is about allowing ourselves to recognize, then move out of what I call “autopilot” thinking.

This is the almost unconscious, habitual cycle of reacting to our thoughts and then altering our behaviors accordingly.

Learn to spectate instead of participate.

#anxiety

[CrushAnxiety @CrushAnxietyNow]

Allowing thoughts to flow really isn’t a foreign concept. It’s something you do thousands of times a day.

The problem is you’ve attached meaning to a few thoughts causing them to be stuck. You’ve interrupted their natural flow.

Thoughts are made to pass. Let them.

#anxiety