Here’s Why You Continue To Suffer From Health Anxiety

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A Grateful Welcome to the Health Anxiety Podcast

Warriors, I welcome you to the Health Anxiety Podcast show, episode number 48. Boy, I love this podcast. Thank you for joining me. And if you know anybody out there that’s suffering from health anxiety, please take a moment to share this podcast with them so that they can gain the knowledge they need to not cope with health anxiety, but to heal for good.

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A Personal Connection: Understanding Health Anxiety

My friends, I’m truly grateful to be able to do this podcast every month for you because I’m always trying to put myself in the mind and body of a health anxiety sufferer. And the more I do that, the more I find how confusing things are and how debilitating things are for a health anxiety sufferer.

Going Beyond Coping: Unmasking Root Causes

You know, if you’re coming from Reddit, there’s a crowd coming from Reddit lately because there are posts going around about the Health Anxiety Podcast show. And you’re new to this information. I want you to know that from the bottom of my heart, I’ve been where you are. And I am, in fact, in a better place now. And I’m… I’m no different or any more special than you are. And you’re going to be able to do the same very, very soon.

Defaulting to Familiarity: The Power of Thought Patterns

And so I need you to understand that although you are suffering from health anxiety and you’ve got this reaction, you’ve got this instinct that says we’ve got to focus on ways to cope and manage our symptoms, I want to look beyond that. I want to look towards the root causes that are causing us to experience this level of sensitivity towards our symptoms and things in the outside world.

Understanding the Emotional Refractory Period

The emotional refractory period, my friends, is a filter that’s designed to keep you in the same state that you’re already in to the exclusion of everything else. So what this does is it wants to keep you in a place of fear and being deeply sensitized and feeling like you’re always looking over your shoulder at the next potential threat. This is what the emotional refractory… This is what the emotional refractory period does.

Changing the Narrative: Breaking Free from the Container

You know, a good example of this with health anxiety is when a person experiences a positive change of some sort. That win gets replaced with a feeling that it mustn’t be entertained further. But rather, a focus on a potential upcoming threat must take over.

Navigating the Emotional Refractory Period: A Call to Action

Do you know the fastest way to get out of this negative emotional refractory period? It’s to change something about your body. Something or anything about your body. In that moment where the fear takes your attention and you start moving yourself towards catastrophic ways of perceiving your symptoms or the situation, it’s in that very moment that you must change something in your body.

Beyond the Story: Embracing a New Reality

This ties into the emotional refractory period because it keeps us contained in a container. We’re living in a container as a health anxiety sufferer. Can you see that? It keeps us believing that this is all there is and this is as good as it’s going to get. Well, let me tell you something. It’s not. It’s not all there is. This isn’t all you’re going to get. So stop believing the story you keep telling yourself. Go beyond the story. Tell yourself a different story. And when you tell yourself that different story, do something that strengthens that new story.

Recognizing the Automatic Systems Within

Warriors, I really want you to understand the emotional refractory period. And what I want you to do is I want you to stop internalizing so much. You’re beating yourself up so much when in fact there are systems within you that are pretty much working automatically. It’s not you. It’s the system. And what we have to do is we have to recognize that the emotional refractory period is in fact trying to keep us in the same anxious state that we’re in. And to the exclusion of everything else. It’s not you. It’s not you.

A Heartfelt Farewell and Call to Subscribe

I love you all from the bottom of my heart. I hope that you’ve gained a little bit of clarity today. Make sure to subscribe. And if you get the chance, please give this podcast a positive rate and review if you’re enjoying it. Please catch up on the previous episodes and I’ll see you very, very soon. Don’t forget that you are more than anxiety. Head over to YouTube today and make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. And if you have any other questions on any of my recovery programs, head over to TheAnxietyGuy.com today. I’ll see you soon. Bye-bye.

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