Do YOU Have Health Anxiety? (TEST)
Channel: Authentic Mental Health
Date: 03/07/2020

Health anxiety also know as illness anxiety and hypochondria is when you spend so much time worrying and thinking you’re ill or about getting ill, that it starts to take over your life.

If your body is telling you to sending you signs that you’re ill, it’s normal to be concerned but health anxiety is when you constantly believe you have symptoms of a severe illness and you’re so consumed by that worry that it becomes disabling.

You may have health anxiety if you constantly worry about your health, frequently check your body for signs of illness, always ask others for reassurance that you’re not ill, worry that your doctor or medical tests have missed something, obsessively look at health information online, avoid anything to do with serious illness such as medical tv shows and act as if you were ill.

Anxiety disorders cause a wide range of symptoms such as headaches and a racing heart which someone with health anxiety may mistake for being a serious illness.

Does this sound like you? Do you do these things on a daily basis? Do you think you’re constantly ill or check every morning when you wake up for signs of an illness? Do you think you have health anxiety? 

1. Do you worry more than most people you know about having a serious illness, disease or medical condition?
2. Do you frequently check your body for signs of illnesses, diseases or medical conditions?
3. Do you spend a lot of your time talking to your friends and family about your health concerns?
4. Do you avoid certain people, places, things or situations because you’re scared of getting an illness or disease?
5. Do you spend a lot of your time on the internet looking up symptoms and signs of illnesses and diseases?
6. Do you often worry your doctor has not diagnosed you correctly or missed something?
7. Do you often ask your friends or family to reassure you that you don’t have a serious illness or disease?

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