Hi there. Before we get started with this episode, I need to clarify one little thing.

You're going to hear me talk about Health Anxiety as a possible subtype of OCD.

And this is because many of the clinicians that I deal with on a regular basis see Health Anxiety

as an OCD type disorder and treat it in much the same way that they will treat other subtypes

of OCD. However, officially in the DSM-5, Health Anxiety is not classified as an OCD subtype.

It's listed as an somatic symptom disorder or an illness anxiety disorder.

So it is not officially a subtype of OCD. I wanted to put that out there because they know for

some people the labels really matter. So when you're listening, please keep that in mind.

All right, let's get going.

All right, let's talk about Health Anxiety,

Dudes and Dudes. Welcome back to the Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 149.

149. Thanks for coming back and hanging out this week. I always appreciate your time and attention.

So today we're going to talk about Health Anxiety. This is a topic that people have been asking

me to talk about more and more lately. And I've become more and more interested in lately.

If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd be like, I don't want to get into that. But actually, I do want

to get into that. And that's what we're going to do today. For those of you who came last week and

listened to the GAD, the generalized anxiety disorder episode, wow, thank you. Like that episode

clearly was probably the most popular one that I've ever done in the entire six years of this

podcast because it was the fastest episode to 5,000 listens. It took less than 24 hours for 5,000

of you to listen, which was amazing. And just a tremendous amount of feedback and interaction

about that topic. So we're going to talk more about that down the road for sure. But today,

Health Anxiety. Health Anxiety, also known as hypochondria, hypochondriasis. So it's all the same

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