Thank you for sharing so openly. Health anxiety can be incredibly overwhelming, especially when it persists despite normal medical results. What you’re describing - persistent worry about health, repeated checking, difficulty trusting medical reassurance - aligns with health anxiety (also known as illness anxiety disorder or hypochondriasis). It's important to know you're not alone, and this condition is treatable. Anxiety can worsen after stopping medications abruptly, so it's good that you're reaching out. A structured approach using CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) tailored specifically for health anxiety has shown very positive results. It helps address the "what if" thoughts, safety behaviours (like frequent checking), and teaches how to sit with uncertainty.

Hello, thank you for sharing your experience so openly. What you're describing aligns with health anxiety, a form of anxiety where physical sensations or harmless symptoms can trigger intense fear of serious illness — even after repeated medical reassurance. This can feel exhausting and very real, as you’ve described. Stopping medication suddenly can also lead to a rebound of anxiety symptoms, which might explain the recent intensification. Here’s how we can move forward: Psychotherapy Support to help manage health anxiety by addressing the thought patterns and emotional responses that keep fear alive. Medication Review: Consulting a psychiatrist to safely reassess the need for medication can be helpful — especially if symptoms are disrupting daily functioning. Structured Recovery Plan: A combination of psychotherapy, routine structuring, guided relaxation or mindfulness exercises, and gradual exposure to health-related triggers can be very effective. Please consider reaching out to a psychologist for a personalized therapy plan.

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Hi You’ve been dealing with health anxiety for 4 years, and even after normal tests, your mind is stuck in a fear loop — “What if something’s wrong?” This is a common cycle where anxiety tricks your brain into misreading normal sensations as danger. To break this loop, start with: • Thought tracking: Write scary thoughts and challenge them with facts. • Grounding: 3 things you see, 3 sounds you hear, 3 deep breaths when anxiety hits. • Avoid Googling symptoms and checking your body repeatedly. • Since you’ve stopped medication recently, your anxiety might feel worse — consider consulting your doctor to review options. Take therapy, and you can connect with me on nine two six six seven two six zero six five.

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I'm sorry to hear what you are going through this - what you are experiencing sounds incredibly distressing and exhausting. From what you've described, it seems you maybe dealing with illness anxiety disorder, where persistent worries about health persist despite normal medical evaluations. It's more common than many realise, and you're not alone in this. It's important to know that help is available and recovery is much possible. A comprehensive Psychiatric  assessment would be first step - not just to confirm the diagnosis but to explore underlying patterns, triggers and how this anxiety is affecting your daily functioning. While medications can be helpful in stabilizing symptoms a holistic approach that includes Cognitive Behavioural therapy, neuromodulation options like rTMS which are showing promise in treatment  resistant anxiety can be explored if required. Illness anxiety could be a possible diagnosis. However, through assesment will help us identify the root cause of the problem, while medication does help a holistic approach of ,medication and therapy by using various cognitive behavioural techniques can help. There are some advancement  treatment  options like neuromodulation  that also help in providing a better outcome.

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Differential diagnosis include 1. Illness anxiety disorder 2. Somatoform disorder 3. Hypochondiasis Other factors to be considered Comorbid depressive symptoms Any substance use Underlying medical comorbidity Hence a detailed and extensive workout to be done to arrive at a conclusive diagnosis and then to start treatment accordingly

Sorry to hear that youve been struggling. Health anxiety can have underlying maladaptive thoughts or conflicted feelings, that can present as bodily sensations which are then misinterpreted as being dangerous. Suddenly discontinuing medication can also lead to rebound worsening of original symptoms. Therapy to manage these feelings and thoughts along with medication usually is most helpful.