If you have health anxiety, you likely seek reassurance about your health-related concerns from doctors and/or loved ones. In other words, you repeatedly seek the simple reassuring message that there is nothing wrong with your health. What does reassurance-seeking look like?

I have written about the intolerance of uncertainty many times. Why? Because it is such an integral part of all types of anxiety disorders and is highly associated with excessive worry- a key factor in generalized anxiety. The more you worry, the more likely it would be that you would have high levels of intolerance of uncertainty.