Health OCD

I used to be similar, moreso with worrying about terminal/serious illnesses with odd symptoms. Something that helped me was a comment somewhere saying something about if you focus on your left toe hard enough, you'll notice it feels weird. So since you're constantly thinking about your heart, your head, etc, of course it'll feel weird because you're constantly monitoring it. I'm mostly over my health ocd now

I experience the same exact thing. I get very hyper focused and start to freak out that something is medically wrong with me. Its usually me convincing myself I have cancer or some other terminal illness. I used to go to the doctor all the time and would get all the blood tests and even see specialists. But nothing was good enough to make me believe I was okay. Something one doctor told me was that if something was genuinely wrong with me I would have more symptoms than just one small thing. For example if I had cancer I would likely have more going on than just my throat being scratchy. This really helped put things in perspective for me.

I experience the same thing as well, its so incredibly hard and frustrating. You are not alone!

I have really bad health anxiety. It’s always worst case scenarios for me a headache can’t just be a headache. Or dizziness or lightheadedness is something horrible. I honestly can read about something and start feeling those symptoms in my body. It is so embarrassing and debilitating at times. You are definitely not alone. I pray we all conquer this .

Exposure therapy helps tremendously with health OCD. I too have daily thoughts about my body sensations that are triggers for health fears. But with exposure therapy I’ve learned tools to handle these thoughts. For examples… here’s a few of my responses to the thoughts… These are just thoughts that are neither right nor wrong. It’s OCD sending a fire alarm when there is no fire. I can handle this discomfort and uncertainty and be okay. Possibility does not equal probability. I don’t have to figure this out. I can be okay without figuring it out. Gods got this figured out. I now have more peace and confidence in my life. I highly recommend going to NOCD for exposure therapy. It really works!