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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 0066 - Anxiety Success : How Sarah Overcame Her Health Anxiety

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you’re suffering with health anxiety – no matter how severe – Sarah’s story will inspire you and give you hope. Join me as we look at Sarah’s journey into completely out of control health anxiety, then back out to a place of calm and peace when it comes to her health and her state of being. Thank you so much to Sarah for taking the time to share her story! My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission...

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up guys Drew here that anxiety guide.com. I am talking to like I'm so

0:06.3

excited my friend Sarah all the way from the UK and Sarah and I have known each

0:10.8

other for quite a long time so those of you who follow my channel, my videos have seen me work with Billy, I know Sarah just as long as I know Billy. So Sarah, thank you so much. It's such a pleasure. It's so fun, right? know so happy to be here. I know so happy to be catching up with you like Sarah and I haven't spoken in a while but yeah

0:28.7

You're always in my heart through what's that? You're always in my heart. Oh, jeez. Wow. So, always thinking about you. So Sarah got you, we would get to see you get like get into the

0:45.3

Facebook group that was awesome like not too long ago you joined up with the

0:48.2

rest of the crowd. So that was cool to see you there and someone had asked about there was a threat about health anxiety and there's just so much health anxiety stuff.

0:56.5

And I have very little experience with that, but Sarah you were nice enough to answer and say that you had gotten past it so I thought we could take 20, 30 minutes and just like talk about that.

1:07.6

So yeah, that would be great. So like give me the rundown. Tell me about like your what has health anxiety been for you

1:14.5

for so many years what was how bad was it?

1:17.2

I'm gonna say probably bad right?

1:18.8

Okay yeah it was it was it eventually led me to actually have a full clinical breakdown.

1:25.0

The health anxiety drove you.

1:29.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:30.0

Yeah, that was the only point through my, I mean because obviously I've had mental health problems for 21 years and at no point with any of the other things I've had to have I actually experienced a full-on breakdown and I can't I mean even now when I look back to how I was then right even I don't even

1:50.3

I don't even recognize that per honestly I don't recognize that person at all. It's just like someone it's

1:58.4

someone different in someone like I was literally it taken over controlling me in every sense.

2:05.0

Now what was the driver I mean were you in that state where you were and

2:10.0

I knew you back down I mean we were kind of communicating back in like 2008, 2009.

2:14.3

Yeah.

2:15.4

And I mean were you driven by that constant scanning of your how do I feel how do I

2:21.9

feel what's wrong what's wrong what's wrong? Yeah. Yeah, do I feel what's wrong, what's wrong.

2:23.0

What's wrong?

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