Over the past ten days, I have written, edited, deleted, re-written, and re-edited a blog post about all the COVID-19 stress on health anxiety…

Have I always been obsessive? On my post, “Why am I a Hypochondriac,” a reader left a comment a little while back saying: My…

For regular readers of this blog, you might remember that I was nearly three years “sober” from Googling symptoms. That was, until, the orange…

I’ve been in your shoes. The anxiety is unrelenting. So, perhaps you want to seek some health anxiety self help.  Because, on one level,…

I really struggled with what to put in this post.  Largely because, looking back on my deep-down hypochondriac days, I thought that there could…

It’s not the most cheerful topic in the world, but perhaps with the holidays approaching, you’re wondering what to get that could help the…

Let’s rip off the bandaid, shall we? These tips are not quick fixes. Not by a long shot. Nor is any single tip solve all…

During my fourth or fifth therapy appointment, my therapist asked me what, if anything, I had done to try to control my obsessive thoughts…

In addition to minor bodily sensations throwing me into a tailspin of catastrophic thoughts, there always seemed to be a few additional causes of…

In the beginning part of my therapy, I was pretty much focusing on controlling my compulsions.  I would estimate that I saw about a…