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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

How can I stop my health anxiety

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt, here with my good friend and co-host

0:17.4

in Angasivier. Today we're responding to several questions from our private Facebook group asking us to talk more about health anxiety.

0:28.0

Health anxiety is top of mind for many of our listeners.

0:32.0

Welcome back for another week of conversation, Ananga, it's so good to be with you.

0:36.0

Hey Shen, I believe that this could be a topic we could discuss most weeks.

0:42.0

It's so prevalent for so many of our listeners.

0:46.3

It is. It's such a unique kind of anxiety that really does haunt the mind and it's very challenging to live with and try and get a handle on.

0:56.6

Everyone's mind has its vulnerable spots and that's where anxiety will strike,

1:02.0

especially if we're already stressed and highly sensitive,

1:06.2

and many of us have anxiety about our mortality or the things that can go wrong with the body,

1:12.4

so it's very easy for

1:13.4

anxiety to strike there. We normally want to distract, run away, escape, but

1:18.7

anxiety is such an inside job, it's happening in our mind and there are symptoms happening in our body, so we're in there with it.

1:26.7

And it really helps to understand more of what's going on with a view of getting the support we need for our experience.

1:37.0

So a little bit of courage there to look in words and ask some questions, but it will all feel so much better once we've done that

1:44.3

because we know what kind of help we need. Health anxiety isn't the same for

1:49.6

everyone. It's not the same for everyone and there's so many examples of the things that trigger us

1:59.6

whether that be bad experiences from the past, of fear of what we call the white coats or

2:07.8

going to the doctor, a dislike of being scrutinized or scrutiny through testing and poking and prodding and

2:17.1

those kinds of things. The whole general health

2:24.8

anxiety.

2:25.8

you might get triggered from a family member or a friend

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