This is Dennis from the AnxietyGuide.com, and you're listening to the AnxietyGuide podcast.

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Let's become more than Anxiety Together.

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Now warriors, what I wanted to do today is I wanted to go back in time, okay?

Now I wanted to pinpoint specific patterns, specific epiphanies, ideas, things I did, steps

I took, to end my health anxiety for good, all right?

Now I want you to understand that when I present these things to you, okay, I need you to

analyze them, okay?

I don't want you to just take this information and act on it right away.

I want you to see how you've been avoiding or denying the things I'm about to present

to you, and I also want you to begin to peel the onion and say, you know what?

Health anxiety is just another form of worry.

I'm worrying about specific sensations and symptoms and mental symptoms, emotional physical,

and if I didn't worry about these things, I'd be worrying about something else anyway,

because throughout my entire life, I've been consumed with worry.

So I don't want you to see yourself as a health anxiety suffer, but I want you to dig deeper

than that and say, you know what, where do these worrying habits come from?

And I need to start changing my beliefs around myself in the world so that I can let go

of worry, so that I can embrace the uncertainty of this life.

Now the first step I took to end my health anxiety is this.

I put myself in the shoes of a student and I became teachable.

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