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Friends, welcome to another episode. I'm Dennis Simsec, your host, and today we're going to discuss

breakthroughs, and how breakthroughs in health anxiety can be as detrimental as setbacks if in fact you do these things that I'm going to talk about today.

Now, you may be wondering, well, Dennis, isn't the work that I'm doing supposed to lead me to breakthroughs and therefore to healing of health

anxiety? Well, yes. However, if you don't have the right attitude, mindset, and response to

these breakthroughs, you can find yourself like you're chasing your tail.

Round and around you go.

And often the breakthrough doesn't really live that long within you.

And you find yourself worrying, catastrophizing,

and being completely fixated on your symptoms again soon after the breakthrough. So I want to talk about three very important points here.

And I hope that you can empathize with what it is I'm about to talk about.

The first thing is that if you cling to the breakthrough and the feeling that accompanies it,

you are therefore clinging, which aligns you right back with fear.

When you suffer from health anxiety, you are clinging to an idea related to a better feeling,

the lack of symptoms, mental clarity, and the ability to be more

functional as you go about the day. There's a hoping, there's a begging, there's a clinging to that.

And the thing is that when you wake up in the morning and you are clinging to that, you will be

disappointed very, very quickly because you've been

in such a sensitized state for so long, and I would recommend that you basically anticipate

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