Friday, February 02, 2007
Anxiety Help - Worried Sick: The Torment Associated With Health Anxiety
Worried Sick: The Torment Associated With Health Anxiety
The six percent of Americans who suffer from health anxiety worry pointlessly and painfully about dangers that do not exist.
Reassurance by doctors provides no comfort for people with health anxiety. In fact a person with health anxiety is like to go from doctor to doctor, distrusting what they say, yet demanding more and more attention and diagnostic tests. Their behavior may seem ridiculous to others, even to themselves, but their distress is very real.
According to the Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Medical Center, treatment is directed at changing perceptions. The person with health anxiety has to learn how to live with the ordinary �ups and downs� of life before they can live as comfortably as other people.
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