Like no matter what I try to tell myself

My fight or flight system has decided I am my life's in danger and I have to

Do something about it

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Today we're chatting with a woman who has severe hypokindriasis

Which is also known as health anxiety and as she put it in her email

I spend every day fully believing that it's my last day on earth because I'm afraid I'll drop dead any minute

Despite having every medical test that doctors could think of

This illness and this unshakable

Belief that she is going to die has cost her tens of thousands of medical bills countless hours in the hospital and more and

She can't even be home alone or go to work. She told us in her email

So we're gonna learn all about this condition about her life and

We've got her on the line now. So first of all. Thank you so much for coming on and you know sharing all of this with us

Thank you so much for having me. It's really nice to meet you guys

Yeah, no, we're definitely looking forward to learning more about this and you know, I know I just

Basically used your words in the introduction, but you know if you can just kind of fill out that definition for us of what

Health anxiety is what hype or hypokindriasis also known as health anxiety

Just you know, what is your definition of this and when did you first begin to realize that you had this?

Yeah, so

Health anxiety is kind of the persistent belief that there's something

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