Health Anxiety - Learning from false alarms

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Health Anxiety - Learning from false alarms. If your anxiety causes you frequent visits to hospital or the doctors, a tool used in CBT called worry records could help reduce these unnecessary visits and reduce your health anxiety.
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@simoliz03 2 жыл бұрын

Never trust Dr. Google!

@TwiistedInsanity Жыл бұрын

That's my problem , that Nad believing what my mind tells me over my body

@zayedabdillahaziz3151 Жыл бұрын

@@TwiistedInsanity how ar u know my brother?

@YasinKhan-xo5ew Жыл бұрын

Never trust doctor

@zayedabdillahaziz3151 Жыл бұрын

@@YasinKhan-xo5ew trust doctors,not google

@YasinKhan-xo5ew Жыл бұрын

No I trust Google not doctor.. Because doctor says it's just anxiety .. And I Google it again and get more confused

@bryson.7990 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sitting here sobbing bc of how scared I am of a sickness I think I have but this video really reassures me bc of how accurate it is towards my anxiety

@shekukamara6 Жыл бұрын

All that you said is what exactly ive been through. This channel is so helpful for us going through anxiety

@gardenialeeman4932 10 ай бұрын

The bad thing is that once you get to a certain age, doctors keep telling you the you might have this and might have that. And even prescribe preventative medications... just in case... they scare you even if you feel good.

@barbiesandbox 2 жыл бұрын

Sir, Thank you for this health anxiety video. I have your videos in my own anxiety toolbox. Your videos are so informative and easy to understand. It takes away some of the intimidation that Anxiety brings. 👍

@zebraaboys Ай бұрын

I have Sjogrens and my general health is a roller coaster so much that the slightest irregularity makes one feel that there is a major medical problem. Your Worry Record is such a valuable take-away from this video. I learned from my frequent hospital visits that running to them were not the solution to my ever-unpredictable anxiety (also a Sjogrens symptom). But I had nothing but general notes and memories to reflect on when the feeling that a hospital emergency room would be the best answer to what I was experiencing. In time I assessed each new situation which developed and learned not to jump to dial 911, but I still felt that nagging anxiety tug. I look forward to using my Worry Record- I created one using the notes you provided in this video- should I be visited by this situation again. Thanks so much for this and all of your other videos- especially the Blood Pressure ones. I needed a way to see beyond that nightmare.

@mirandawoods9306 9 ай бұрын

Love your videos, particularly the Anxious Imp! Sharing them with all my anxious family, and wish I’d seen them years ago! Thanks so much for making them, they’re life saving! Miranda.🥰

@tilltheend7902 4 ай бұрын

God BLESS you sir!!!! You are a blessing from the Lord! All this anxiety is a way the devil robs us of our peace with lies in our minds.. that's why Jesus said THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE!!

@RajeshGupta-xu1ss Жыл бұрын

Great Video!!!!!!

@nasworldwide 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video!!!!!

@peterdahl3377 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Martin, Never thought I’d be the guy to have this issue. Your videos helped me.

@TheAnxietyAttic 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that my videos are helping. Anxiety is a lot more common than many people realise. Lifes stresses can cause anyone to develop anxiety.

@7CFlo Жыл бұрын

This issue doesn't discriminate

@georgeking2369 10 ай бұрын

How right you are there are many males who suffer health anxiety and don't like to talk about it which they go through life suffering if you do suffer from it please get yourself help don't be afraid it may save your life

@Lilith-df8wd Жыл бұрын

I’ve always had anxiety but I developed panic attacks about dying and physical symptoms from my anxiety after working as EMT during the pandemic. I know all the signs of decompensating shock, and my anxiety mimics all of them. I get a high heart relate, low blood pressure, cold clammy skin, rapid respirations… it’s so hard to convince myself I’m not gonna die alone and terrified. That it will pass.

@2rguidance Жыл бұрын

I also work in health care, after my father almost died of covid my health anxiety got worse. Some days are bad, feels like I'm gonna die on my sleep or something. It's suffocating. Even though i know it's just anxiety it didn't make me feel better. It's hard to convince myself but i still keep telling my self that this will pass.

@Movie-yp1bp 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much dr i learned many things from uh i was just Googling anytime my little little symptoms and thats leads me to more in anxiety condition but from now no google will be serch for any symptoms

@tatianapouladian7901 2 жыл бұрын

Martin, Thank you for the information. I find it very useful and easy to understand. The drawing however was giving me anxiety!!! so I found it easier to listen and avoid looking at the quick drawing and erasing. Thank you again for the great information.

@TheAnxietyAttic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tatiana. I know the drawing does not suit everyone so I have started making some videos without the drawing or a combination of video and animation.

@ricksfavs3246 Жыл бұрын

My hypochondria is currently raging. Yes, I've had much progress over the years, eg, I used to Google, go to doctors, test...now rarely. Now I'm afraid to go to doctors or get tests. This too is hypo. When triggered, belief in imminent peril seems irresistible. The things that have worked for me are regular vigorous exercise and continually challenging the fear. Because it's all about the fear!

@TheAnxietyAttic Жыл бұрын

Yes its good to challenge the fear and also to do the opposite of what your anxiety is telling you. Doing the opposite disproves the belief driving the anxiety.

@tango-bravo Жыл бұрын

I have frequent health anxiety around transient abdominal pains. I often think the worst, and sometimes have recurring pains after lifting things, so I tell myself it’s probably a muscle. I frequently google symptoms and come up with all kinds of things: colon or stomach cancer, kidney failure, pancreatic cancer, etc. Most of those diseases start with abdominal pains or back pains right? I will ride a wave of fear for a few days and then the pain will go away for a week or more. Sometimes the pain comes in a different area, so I focus on that. It’s an exhausting and draining cycle of fear, “being good”, freedom and then fear again.

@jasonb7870 Жыл бұрын

The drawing thing is good.

@connorgrant8604 4 ай бұрын

Ive never seen a video describe me so accurately. The amoint of times ive called 911 thinking I was dying but was just having a panic attack

@TheAnxietyAttic 4 ай бұрын

You may find my 8 videos series on panic attacks helpful. It gives you everything you need to know to stop them. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJeWo5x5sajVoX0.html

@connorgrant8604 4 ай бұрын

@@TheAnxietyAttic Martin I just watched it. I have been avoiding airplanes for 7 years now but I just got a job in New York and I have to fly from California to get there. Is getting a one time prescription of a benzodiazapene a safety behavior that could make me have a panic attack on an airplane? I just don't want to have a panic attack while I'm trapped in the air.

@TheAnxietyAttic 4 ай бұрын

@connorgrant8604 Its a trade off. Benzos are a safety behaviour so in the long term make anxiety worse but in the short term it will likely calm you down for your flight. If it works it can be very tempting to take benzos for any situation where you fear panic attacks but they are very addictive with some bad side effects if used regularly. If you do decide to use it because the flight is so difficult, once it is over try to work your way up your graded exposure list over the next year without benzos so that if you have to do a flight a year from now it will not be so daunting and will not require the Benzo.

@kostivata7851 Жыл бұрын

About the brain practice, its absolutely true! Whille knowing i have anxiety my logic said - "Well, this is reality its nothing but Anxiety, if i would ever die from it i would have done so already but i wont, and im completely fine, also,.. i am challenging you, go on, bring me that heart attack, whats wrong? where you hiding? come on Anxiety im waiting to give me that panic attack i want so bad again!" (This confuses Anxiety and completely the oposite happens) Iv done that as many times as i felt that a panic attack would strike me and surprisingly it goes away and since then iv never had any of it. 😁👍 Please, we just have to be mentaly strong as anxiety effects our nervous system as well, Anxiety is only a "pathophysiological" symptom with a phsycogenic origin. Wich means, the more you think of yourself of being sick, the more you will feel sick from it and it will lock you down making it hard to go away. The less you think of being sick the more it goes away, think positively and be happy not worried or neither sceptical. 🙂

@ashley5902 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on health anxiety when there is something wrong with you? For instance. I have cardiophobia… but I also really do have PVC’s SVT Lupus and Graves… my blood tests are always a little funky. Sometimes I think that my health anxiety is hardest to get over because I do have things wrong with me they’re just not as bad as what my anxiety is making them out to be. If that makes sense?

@hrvojemiha 2 жыл бұрын

Same with me. Pvc,Pac,Afib, and anxious about having heart attack,cardiac arrest or a stroke.

@soumyajithazra3058 10 ай бұрын

It's funny to watch these videos as it's like you are talking about me , i exactly do the same things u have described.

@CelineNoyce Жыл бұрын

This is a good idea. I have something similar - every time something unexpectedly good happens in the world... something that I was sure wouldn't happen... I write it down. Such as when Elizabeth Smart was found alive. And I review this when I am sure the very worst is going to happen to me... this is a good idea but 30 years of HA and I have forgotten all the times I have been to the doctor and it has been nothing. But I do remember the one time I went to the doctor, pushed and she found a condition.

@TheAnxietyAttic Жыл бұрын

Its always good to write down the positives. Writing engages several parts of the brain so its sinks in better.

@pritongtalong7662 11 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤.

@TheAnxietyAttic 11 ай бұрын

You are welcome

@rosiedominguez7315 Жыл бұрын

Hi Martin, just found your channel. Thank you for your videos. I was wondering can you do a video on how to get a handle on checking your body, i find i do that alot. Like for example checking to see how my heart is beating or if my bp feels normal. I think ive become very hyperfocused on my body sensations. I subscribed to your channel. Thanks for all you do to help us.

@TheAnxietyAttic Жыл бұрын

Will do

@monleres485mouse2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for video, i have hydrophobophobia and it's really suсks.

@ColdVsIce 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed..

@julijachernova8694 5 ай бұрын

but anxiety cycle not necessarily starts from the thought. For me, it starts from the symptom - for example dizziness, when I suddenly stand up, then I think that I have a brain bleeding and am dying now, then I get scared and my body follow along with heart palpitation and shallow breathing, where I start feeling even more dizzy and even more convinced that I die. And then I am in full panic attack :( how to stop being afraid of the symptoms? especially when you have been checked and you have experienced symptoms many times without dying? why the brain does not learn that symptom is not dangerous?

@TheAnxietyAttic 5 ай бұрын

In the diagram the cycle is shown as starting with the thought but in reality it can also start with a symptom or a feeling. For people who suffer anxiety, the cycle is constantly going around and around so it is difficult to pin point where it started. The reason the brain does not learn is because safety behaviours keep reinforcing that the symptoms represent a genuine threat so it keeps sending the thoughts. Only by gradually reducing safety behaviours can you reduce the thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms but it is very difficult to do and takes a lot of time and will power.

@az630 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Martin thank you so much for your videos, I find it so reassuring listening to them. I have been a health anxiety sufferer for as long as I can remember, which has been quite tortuous at times. The thing with my anxiety is I avoid going to the doctors, for fear they might confirm all the fears I have been having. I'm scared of having my blood taken or blood pressure readings, which simply results in me festering over my symptoms and convincing myself that I have this life threatening illness. I recently took my blood pressure which came up really high and since then I've been too scared to take it again, ultimately leading myself to now believe I have hypertension, or some other heart disorder. Any advice?

@TheAnxietyAttic 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Amina. In my health anxiety playlist you will find a few videos that will help. Use the video on countering negative thoughts to deal with the thoughts that are driving the anxiety. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtt4eadl1qjTk3k.html. Start journaling and reducing your safety behaviours as described in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9-JppBinK2ulqs.html . Try the exercises in the behavioural experiments video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g651jLh23dyvZIU.html. There is no instant fix for health anxiety but if you use these tools regularly the anxiety should start to reduce of a period over the months.

@meghanaarikeri1374 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAnxietyAttic this video is just very informative I'm not kidding.

@vascogarca1236 2 жыл бұрын

Im on the same situation as you... Any updates?

@smitaprabhu26 Жыл бұрын

Same here, how are you coping?

@rishabhsharma5171 Жыл бұрын

THANKYOU SO MUCH JUST NEVER DO GOOGLE .

@TossarN Жыл бұрын

My doc have told me that I'm fully somatically healthy, I'm a blood donor 5 times, no need for iron pills, Ekg etc always show textbook values. And I still think I'm dying, daily. It's annoying and I'm sick and tired of it. I question if doctors overlooked something because they know my problem. Constant could rush and tingling from the belly and chest Dx

@aravinthselvaraj7340 Жыл бұрын

How about health anxiety of going crazy ? I don't feel physical symptoms i just feel fear and afraid of going crazy.. i started to take normal things as symptoms such as talking to myself and mind pop ups as symptoms.. now i notice them even more than before and start to panic

@tilltheend7902 4 ай бұрын

Yes that's also anxiety.. absolutely!

@harinisankaran897 2 жыл бұрын

I just found out that I have slightly elevated blood pressure. My blood pressure goes up when I see a doctor and sometimes the health anxiety causes the bp to rise when I check in home..I start to worry what if I get a stroke and heart attack in future..this causes an anxious feeling in heart and stomach..sometimes I feel heavy breathing and start to worry and it worries my anxiety..I started worrying if my husband got something sick with some minor things, what if he has some serious health problem..I can't be happy at all and I am anxious without anything while everyone around me are happy 😒..thinking of going to doctor itself makes me anxious as I fear he may diagnose something

@TheAnxietyAttic 2 жыл бұрын

On Friday I will be releasing a video about how to deal with negative thoughts about blood pressure which may help. In case you have not seen it, I also have another video on blood pressure anxiety kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ppqAerR1prq-poE.html

@avamiller2325 2 жыл бұрын

I am the same way!

@typical_doza Жыл бұрын

You’re not alone, I’m taking blood pressure medication since I had my panic attack in 2020. I’ve come to the realization that I have white coat syndrome, an anxious attack during a bp test. I worry that I had heart problems so I went to a cardiologist and I was told that I was normal, but my bp machine said otherwise. I was beginning to get frustrated because I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted. Now, I’m more active, I meditate and I’m more connected with the outside world. With my deep breathing exercises I finally get the results I’ve always wanted. My bp results always appear high in the first try, but I relax myself and meditate and the second and third result always come out normal. I always bring my bp journal with me to doctor appointments because I still get nervous when they do it. So if they see it and say something about it I just show them my bp journal. It’s okay to feel nervous, but you’re okay and you’re not in danger. Remind yourself that your not in danger, you’re okay. Focus on the present day, not in the future

@harinisankaran897 Жыл бұрын

@@typical_doza thank you

@dragonjay7277 2 жыл бұрын

The thing about health anxiety is that every time we see someone that has suffered from something, we automatically think that is gonna happen or it can happen to us aswell right away and we go into panic mode. Can u make a vid or help me how to overcome this type of thinking in health anxiety.

@JenniferPost 2 жыл бұрын

This. Every time I hear of someone dying or getting an illness, I automatically think it's going to happen to me. Would love to see a video addressing this thinking pattern. To me, it's more debilitating than the physical symptoms.

@TheAnxietyAttic 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the questions I answer in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrh-Y5yUur6ZgYU.html.

@denisebaldwin4841 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what happens to me . I’ve asked friends not to discuss things like this with me because I automatically think it’s going to happen to me . Some people don’t realise how much of a trigger this for someone trying to manage health anxiety. I didn’t until I experienced my first panic attack and now months later I’m still trying to manage health anxiety

@affnas3298 Жыл бұрын

My cbc blood test and other all blood tests also ecg normal but doctor didn't say its a anxiety he said that come back after week .. after week again all normal and he said come back again after week..

@pskpskpsk Жыл бұрын

Same as my doctor

@adrianvasile8965 Жыл бұрын

But what when you have physical symptoms before you ever think of them?i get non stop heartbeat awareness for 3 years and daily extrasystoles ,excesive bloating with fullness sensation so intense that i cant even stay on my feet and abdomen pain especially when i put pressure back pain,exhaustion,,not being able to do exercise because i get dizzy.General sickness all the time hots colds etc.Some people had this and that but i had them all and when i tried an SNRI i get an arrhythmia from them.i don t know what to do next...

@TheAnxietyAttic Жыл бұрын

Once the anxiety cycle is established the anxiety can start with a thought, feeling or physical symptom. It does not necessarily happen in the order shown in the anxiety cycle diagram. The cycle is going around and around all the time and its hard to pin point what started the anxiety or symptom this time. One thing you can be certain of though is that you will be regularly using safety behaviours and these keep the cycle going.

@Truerealism747 Жыл бұрын

Any muscle pains everyday life have symptoms npain everyday

@OffensiveIdiot 9 ай бұрын

I always try to cancel my thoughts but it keeps going back😢

@rishabhsharma5171 Жыл бұрын

If u go with any pain symptom it shoes heart attack

@ceasarpeteraves4647 3 жыл бұрын

Sir can you help me overcoming my health anxiety

@TheAnxietyAttic 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Caesar. Unfortunately I no longer give one on one counselling. However I will continue to make videos which teach the tools and techniques that I used to use when I was counselling. I am trying to provide a free set of video resources that anyone can use for self help or to supplement their learning if they are already in therapy.