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I want to discuss the Health Anxiety University. I want to discuss the health anxiety lies that we continue to feed ourselves each and every day. These lies have turned into belief systems.

These belief systems have turned into habits. These habits have turned into an identity.

It's our job starting today to begin seeing beyond the health anxiety lies that we continue to feed ourselves.

So let's start with number one.

The number one health anxiety lie that I see so commonly today in the health anxiety world

is that you feel and have been told that you're going to have to live with health anxiety or an anxiety disorder forever.

And let me give you a personal story. I remember going to the doctors. And when you go to the

doctors, we always feel like the doctor is the authority figure.

Whatever the doctor says is truth.

It's kind of an unconscious thing that we have.

I went into the doctors, and I told them my story,

and the habits and the health anxiety and such.

And the doctor said that health anxiety and anxiety and anxiety disorders in general cannot be overcome.

You're going to have to find a way to manage the symptoms, to manage the identity, to manage it for the rest of your life.

And in that moment, I kind of went, whoa, wow, okay, well that changes everything,

that changes all my plans, that changes my relationships, right? That changes the amount of time I spend

on myself and creativity, that changes everything.

My world, if this is how I'm currently living with health anxiety,

then I have to begin setting up my entire life the same way.

So to be distraught was kind of an understatement in that moment.

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