Health Anxiety
Health Anxiety is a fear based emotional disorder caused by an obsessive worry about your health. This condition, sometimes called hypochondria, may dramatically affect one’s participation in normal day-to-day activities and even lead to home-isolation.
When these medical related uncertainties evolve into more extreme levels of fear, the physical symptoms of anxiousness and panic are felt, including:
- Nervous tension
- Chest tightness
- Racing heart
- Shortness of breath
These physical symptoms occur during anxiety and panic attacks. They can lead to even more exaggerated concerns of having a heart condition, decease, cancer or illness. These physical feelings are caused by the brain’s fear response (flight or fight response) that flood the blood stream with adrenaline and cortisol when your mind perceives a threat.
These brain chemicals stimulate the body to move quickly and more forcibly in reaction to our perceived danger by getting more blood and oxygen to the muscles. The adrenaline and cortisol cause the heart to beat faster and breathing to become faster and at the top of the chest
All normal human beings have constant sensations that can be felt. These normal feelings become the focused attention of someone with health anxiety and can lead to any of the following obsessive-compulsive behaviors:
1. Checking and re-checking the body for imperfections or imagined sensations
2. Frequent surfing on the internet for health information and decease related articles on websites such as WEB MD.
3. Constantly asking friends and loved ones their reassuring opinion regarding your health
4. Making frequent visits or calls to their physician
What Causes Health Anxiety?
Most men and women dealing with this problem have underlying anxiety issues. History of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder, are at-risk of developing irrational worrying about their health.
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Anyone who has ever experienced a terrifying Anxiety Attack can begin to fear having another one. It is common to believe you are having a heart attack and go to an emergency room, only to discover its only a panic attack.
This exaggerated concern for a heart related problem can lead to having health anxiety.
Virus Decease Anxiety
The news media reports regarding viruses have created waves of anxiety. Constant checking for signs of personal illness and monitoring news updates can manifest all of the symptoms listed above.
If you are experiencing these fears, you should immediately follow the 4 Steps listed here:
InstaCalm Hypnosis Anxiety Treatment
Many authorities recommend using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to treat health anxiety. This can be a frustrating therapy requiring about 12 sessions. The InstaCalm Anxiety Treatment can usually alleviate these symptoms in just 4 to 5 one-hour hypnotherapy sessions at the InstaCalm office in Huntsville, AL.
- Our therapy provides techniques in alleviating & managing anxiety symptoms, as well as: Improve Health Confidence and overcoming germ phobia and cyberchondria.
This treatment is considered to be an Alternative Therapy and does not involve medication or talk therapy. The best action to take is to begin by taking the Anxiety Rating Test and scheduling a free phone consultation.
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