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Health Anxiety Podcast Show

My Personal Journey Through Health Anxiety and Back to Healing

Health Anxiety Podcast Show

Dennis Simsek

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8556 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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Description:

In this deeply personal health anxiety podcast episode, I take you through my own journey with health anxiety. I share what first brought it on, the thought patterns and behaviors that kept it going, and the shifts that truly helped me begin healing.

If you've been living in fear of symptoms, constantly checking your body, searching for certainty, or feeling trapped in the cycle of "what if something is wrong," this episode will speak to you in a very real way.

Inside this episode, I cover:

How my health anxiety began
The hidden habits that maintained the fear cycle
Why reassurance never brought lasting peace
The emotional and nervous system patterns underneath health anxiety
What helped me move toward healing in a real and lasting way

This episode is for anyone who feels exhausted by symptom fear, medical worry, body scanning, and the constant need to know everything is okay.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

There have been many of you that I've been asking me to share my personal experience,

0:07.0

specifically with health anxiety.

0:09.8

So, friends, today I want to dive deep into what I experienced, and I'm going to lay it out

0:16.0

as descriptive and real as possible so that it can help you in some way.

0:24.1

Let's dive in.

0:26.2

Welcome to the Health Anxiety Podcast show being brought to you by The Anxietyguide.com.

0:34.1

I'm Dennis Simsec, your host, and together we are going to navigate the health-anxiety

0:41.1

healing process, replacing fear with knowledge and transforming uncertainty into strength.

0:49.1

Let's embark on a path towards a healthier mindset and a healthier life. Let's go.

0:56.7

Before we get into this podcast episode, I want to apologize. For the last week, yes,

1:04.4

the Anxiety Guide Programs.com has been under maintenance. We have been updating our programs. So I'd like to offer you 30% off

1:14.0

any program with the code Freedom30 at Anxiety Guy Programs.com. Thank you for your patience. Thank you

1:21.9

for letting me know about your intent to start the programs. Use the code Freedom 30, get 30% off at Anxiety Guy Programs.com.

1:34.1

And so this podcast episode is not teaching, it's not learning,

1:40.6

it's more so my personal experience, okay. So let's dive into kind of what I went through, how it

1:49.6

started and kind of how I got out of this health anxiety loop because there's a lot of people

1:55.8

right now that are struggling. They're struggling to gain progress. They're struggling to get over their

2:04.8

attachment to symptoms and the fear of what may take place in their physical body. I completely

2:11.0

get it. I understand. So, just so you know, I do believe that my worries and my anxiety in general started very,

2:22.8

very young, right? And of course, when you're a baby or you're growing up and you're very

2:28.8

young, it's kind of hard to see the signs. But I do remember, of course, as we all do, looking up to

2:38.3

our authority figures, mother, father, and really believing what they were teaching,

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