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When health anxiety creates endless cycles of worry

I obsess over every symptom in my body and Google everything, convinced I have some serious illness even though doctors say I'm fine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's attempt to control the uncontrollable nature of embodied existence generates its own form of suffering.

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