Even in the most emotionally traumatic moment of my life, when I learned that my mom had been killed in a car accident, I…
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November 2017
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Most of the time, my health anxiety was related to aches and pains in my body. If my body happened to be ache or…
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“OCD?” I asked. “OCD Health Anxiety? OCD as in ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?’” I inquired with an increasingly puzzled tone in my voice. My therapist…
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In the two years after my gallbladder surgery, following which the surgeon innocently told me to “listen to my body,” I was slowly taking…
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But those words. Those three words “You could’ve died.” A hypochondriac was born. The surgeon did not mince those words when he spoke them. …
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“Please, for the love of god, just don’t let her tell me to try deep breathing. It’s fucking useless.” That is pretty much the…
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I’m not dying today. At least, I don’t think I am. Well, I thought I was dying a few hours ago. And then there…