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How chronic illness creates exhausting hypervigilance about bodily sensations

I've become hypervigilant about my body in ways that feel both necessary and torturous. Every sensation could be nothing or it could be the start of a major flare and I can't turn off the monitoring.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Necessary symptom awareness transforms natural bodily experience into constant threat assessment.

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