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?

Those who have generalized anxiety tend to worry about multiple different things in their life. Hours are spent analyzing past events and ruminating over potential future threats. If you have this type of anxiety, I don’t need to tell you just how exhausting it can be. In this three-part series, I will be talking about how to understand and improve debilitating worry.