S7 EP10: Do You Have Disruptive Health Anxiety?
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The number of people struggling with all kinds of anxiety is up, and unsurprisingly, that includes health anxiety. Health anxiety can include a lot of things, including obsessive weighing or taking photos of yourself and worrying too much about them. In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea will discuss health anxiety and how it looks and acts. Listen in to hear what Rachael and Kelsea have to say about why it’s important to talk about health anxiety, what kinds of things might cause health anxiety to manifest, and how to think about whether your anxiety is “disruptive enough.”
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Health anxiety – what it means to have it
- The importance of talking about health anxiety experiences
- What does anxiety look like as opposed to health anxiety
- Health anxiety as a subset of OCD
- Things that cause health anxiety to manifest
- Obsessive behavior
- Deciding if behaviors are disruptive enough
- What compulsive behaviors look like
- What to do with intrusive thoughts
- How to decrease compulsive behaviors and intrusive thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | I love that you brought up the obsessive weighing because that is one of the things that like, |
| 0:05.0 | just from a societal standpoint, we've almost been like okay with being obsessive about that. |
| 0:10.7 | And it's really disruptive. Like some people are weighing themselves at the beginning of the day, |
| 0:17.1 | at the end of the day before their gym session, after their gym session, as if your body fat or body composition were to change within that session. |
| 0:26.2 | And looking at that as an obsessive behavior has really started to shift the mindset from, like, |
| 0:35.8 | this just being part of reaching my goals. |
| 0:38.8 | And like actually that is obsessive and disruptive to your relationship with your body |
| 0:44.9 | and your relationship with your health. |
| 0:52.0 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people |
| 1:02.1 | achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives |
| 1:09.3 | through fitness and health. wherever you are at on your |
| 1:13.6 | journey we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life |
| 1:20.0 | join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere welcome to the thick thighs |
| 1:26.5 | save lives podcast hi guys and welcome Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:29.9 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm Kelsey and I'm Rachel. |
| 1:35.2 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 1:36.3 | Hey, girl. |
| 1:38.0 | What's happening, girl? |
| 1:41.1 | You know, you know, just a Friday. |
| 1:43.9 | So we record on Fridays. |
| 1:45.6 | So happy Friday or Tuesday. |
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