You know that thing where you can get accidentally obsessed with fixated on and freaking out all the

time over your blood pressure? Maybe you wind up checking it continuously and compulsively,

or you wind up being terrified to check it at all, or you wind up absolutely consumed with

the idea of stroke or kidney failure, and you do everything humanly possible to

avoid that primarily through worry and rumination and it's making you crazy well if this sounds

like you we need to talk so let's do that hello everybody welcome back to the anxious truth. Today, this is episode 342 of the podcast. We're

recording April of 26, and we are going to talk about fear of obsession with fixation on blood pressure.

This is a very common situation, a very common struggle that many anxious people,

people in my therapy practice, people in my social media community find themselves in. And it

often happens in the absence of an actual blood pressure issue. There's no high blood pressure,

no hypertension, no cardiac issues, no medical issues at all, yet you may wind up absolutely

fixated, obsessed with,

and terrified of your blood pressure, which can drive you into continuous checking and worry

loops that you can't seem to stop or control, or it can drive you into extreme avoidance

loops that ruin your life or have a very negative impact on your life, and you can't seem

to control those. Otherwise, we are going to talk about that today. We're actually going to pretend that if you came and saw me and worked with me as your therapist, which you don't because this is YouTube or a podcast, and I am a therapist, but not your therapist. So keep that in mind, this can only be sort of a 50,000 foot view. We're going to pretend that you come and work with me,

and we're going to talk about how we might work together using third wave acceptance

and mindfulness approaches to help you overcome that fixation and that fear connected to

your blood pressure.

Before we get into that, just a quick reminder that the anxious truth is more than just

this YouTube video or this podcast episode. There are way more resources on my website at the Anxioustruth.com. So check those out. I would definitely point you over to the Disordered Podcast, which is a podcast that I do every Friday with my friend Josh Fletcher. He's also an anxiety therapist that practices in the UK. You can find that at

Disordered.fm. When you're over at Disordered.com, you can check out the disordered community space. Because if you'd like to talk about this episode of the Anxious Truth or any episode of the anxious truth or something you see me post on social media, the disordered community space is where I'm sort of hanging out. Not required. We're not promising that we're going to cure you or fix you.

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