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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Health Anxiety

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Do you often worry about getting random diseases? Well, Kirk and Humberto sure do. In this episode, Dr. Kirk provides a deep dive on the diagnoses, lived experience, literature, research, and treatment of health anxiety.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Berto, do you suffer from health anxiety?

0:03.6

Have you heard that I do?

0:05.6

Should I get that checked out?

0:06.6

Do you suffer from it?

0:07.8

Yeah.

0:08.8

How so?

0:09.8

Well, throughout the years, I've had what I would call a bit of a hypochondriac tendencies and when I feel like

0:18.7

something might be wrong I get really anxious and it can make me feel worse. And I've also had actual panic

0:27.4

attack before and I've had anxiety and recently I had a very scary case of this.

0:35.0

Yeah.

0:36.0

And people might remember you discussing the floss incident.

0:40.0

The floss incident.

0:42.0

Yes. Where you thought you had pooped out a tape worm when in fact you just put floss in the toilet the night before.

0:49.8

And so yeah, so let's get into your more recent event with health anxiety and panic

0:59.3

But first let's do a little intro here. Let I put out an ask on Facebook for people to provide their own stories of health anxiety.

1:09.7

And I thought I might get one or two responses.

1:11.9

I got a lot of responses. For example anonymous patron she writes

1:16.1

I've suffered from hypochondria since I was around eight or nine years old I'm

1:20.9

33 now after my elementary school showed us videos about

1:26.1

HIV AIDS. After that I became convinced that I had HIV AIDS. At the time I was being molested by my dad's friend. I feel that the two

1:38.6

are connected but I'm not a professional so I don't really know. The abuse stopped around 10, but my hypochondria did not.

1:47.0

Another movie I watched was about a girl with leg cancer who had to have her leg amputated. I remember rubbing my left fibula bone at the time to

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