Tag: Health Anxiety
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Health anxiety and chronic illness: when the illness is real
When health anxiety sits on top of a real diagnosis, the work is not challenging your fears. It is learning which signals from your body deserve action, and getting your life back from the vigilance.
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Health anxiety & chronic illness: why standard advice backfires
Standard health anxiety advice assumes the threat is imagined. When you have a chronic condition, the clinical work needs a different starting point
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Brain Fog With a Normal MRI: Why the Scan Doesn’t Show It
MRI came back normal but the brain fog and derealisation are real. Why scans can’t show what you feel — and how to cope when you can’t trust your own mind.
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The Globus Sensation: Why Your Throat Feels Stuck
Feel a persistent lump in your throat with nothing there? Learn what globus sensation is, why anxiety makes it worse, and an approach to living well with it.
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Can Anxiety Cause PVCs? Breaking the Palpitation–Panic Cycle
Yes — anxiety can trigger PVCs, and PVCs trigger more anxiety. A UK therapist explains why benign palpitations feel so frightening and how to break the loop.
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When Your Doctor Says ‘It’s Just Anxiety’ (But You Know It’s Not)
You’re sitting in the GP surgery. Your heart is pounding. You’ve just explained your symptoms: the exhaustion, the pain, the way your body doesn’t feel like it belongs to you anymore. And then your doctor leans back and says it. “It’s just anxiety.” Those three words land like a punch. They dismiss weeks or months…
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When Physical Symptoms Leave You Wondering What’s Really Going On
You wake up with chest tightness. Again. Your first thought races to your heart, but then you remember your doctor said it was anxiety. So you try to breathe through it. But what if they missed something? What if this time it’s different? If you’re living with a chronic health condition, you know this loop…
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What to Do While Waiting for Test Results: A Guide
Your GP says the words “urgent referral” or “two-week pathway”, and suddenly your chest tightens. Your hands go cold. The rest of the appointment becomes a blur. You walk out of the surgery dazed and panicked, and the questions start immediately: What did they see? Why urgent? What aren’t they telling me? If you’re waiting…
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Gut-Brain Connection: Managing IBS Anxiety Effectively
You’re queuing at the supermarket when you feel it – that familiar cramping in your abdomen. Your chest tightens. Within seconds, you’re scanning for the toilet, heart pounding, mind racing through worst-case scenarios. Later, at home, your stomach feels worse. And you wonder: did the anxiety make your IBS flare up, or did your IBS…
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The Emotional Toll of Unexplained Symptoms
You’ve finally got the appointment. You’ve waited weeks. You’ve rehearsed what you’re going to say. You walk in, describe the exhausting fatigue, the unexplained pain, the symptoms that are slowly dismantling your life. And then your doctor says it’s just anxiety.
