Health Anxiety (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, do you suffer from health anxiety? |
| 0:03.0 | Have you heard that I do? |
| 0:05.0 | Should I get that checked out? |
| 0:06.0 | Do you suffer from it? |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:09.0 | How so? |
| 0:10.0 | Well, throughout the years, I've had what I would call a bit of hypochondriac tendencies. |
| 0:16.0 | And when I feel like something might be wrong, I get really anxious and it can make me feel worse. |
| 0:24.1 | And I've also had actual panic attack before and I've had anxiety. |
| 0:29.5 | And recently I had a very scary case of this. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | And people might remember you discussing the floss incident. |
| 0:40.1 | The floss incident. |
| 0:41.6 | Where you thought you had pooped out a tapeworm when in fact you just put floss in the toilet. |
| 0:48.2 | The night before. |
| 0:50.6 | So, yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | So let's get into your more recent event with health anxiety and panic. |
| 0:59.3 | But first, let's do a little intro here. |
| 1:01.7 | Let's do it. |
| 1:02.5 | So I put out an ask on Facebook for people to provide their own stories of health anxiety. |
| 1:09.3 | And I thought I might get one or two responses. |
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