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How health anxiety transforms normal bodily sensations into catastrophic evidence

I assume every physical sensation is a sign of serious illness and spend hours googling symptoms

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind interprets natural somatic fluctuations through the lens of mortality fear, creating suffering from ordinary bodily experience.

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