Talking about Health Anxiety OCD


 Whether you call it Health Anxiety OCD, illness anxiety disorder or something else, the entire concept has been misunderstood both in the medical and mental health field. A major part of the confusion arises from failing to understand that the diagnosis refers to a person who is consciously worried about his health, not about whether they are actually sick or not. And the fact is, one can be sick and have Health Anxiety OCD.

As it is true with all the areas of OCD, the problem is not the content of the obsession, but it is how the person relate the respond to it. The person wants to foretell the future of being sick, but the failed attempt to be not able to or able to certain about one’s health ultimately led to feeling less certain and more afraid. And that is how the OCD about health is triggered. The more the person tries to foretell the future, the more the condition aggravates. That being said, the content of all the OCD sufferers’ obsessive thoughts always feel and seems important, and this kind of an urgency distracts the person from recognizing the problem with the process.

Now we have discussed about this, we should take steps to deal with it. Take up an ERP OCD online course and talk to an expert about this at the earliest. We know it will be a great help to you.


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