My close friend group started doing a weekly hiking group but three of us developed exercise-induced vocal cord dysfunction and now we're all dealing with breathing issues and voice problems. We want to keep hiking together but we're all scared and comparing symptoms obsessively and I think we're making each other more anxious about what's happening to our bodies.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared physical symptoms within a social group can amplify individual anxiety and create an echo chamber of medical worry.
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