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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Chronic illness — living with a long condition?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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