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✨ Health anxiety can turn routine medical tests into a life-or-death situation. It’s often the reason why a lot of people avoid tests altogether. That avoidance creates a false sense of safety, because as long as you don’t get tested, you can’t be given the bad news your mind has convinced you is coming. ✨ Taking the test can feel like you’re giving up the control you felt like you had and handing it over to a doctor. ✨ And because a health anxiety brain treats uncertainty like a guaranteed threat, it jumps straight to the absolute worst-case scenario. It will always fill that empty space of waiting with extreme outcomes, rather than neutral or positive ones. ✨ You then suffer during the waiting period, feeling like an absolute wreck, scanning your body and searching online for what could be wrong with you — and feeling worse and worse. And, even more convinced that bad news is coming.
Tips on how to deal with this are coming in my next video. Stay tuned. #healthanxiety #anxietytips #healthanxietyrelief #anxietysupport
Dr Kirren - Psychologist
Region: GB
Tuesday 22 September 2026 20:28:09 GMT
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kimberlyhavell375 :
HATE HAVING HEALTH ANXIETY 😖. Got worse as I got older!
2026-09-23 15:19:49
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BlueRidgeMama ✝️💟 :
People without medical anxiety simply don’t understand. It’s debilitating. I’ve battled it for years.
2026-09-23 21:20:16
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carlyc386 :
I have been diagnosed with ptsd from a previous birth trauma relating to anything medical. I have found a lump in my breast I managed the doctors but somehow need to be able to go to the breast clinic to be checked. I’ve had multiple panic attacks daily just knowing I have to go. I haven’t even been able to have a blood test for 15 years I avoid all things medical if I can but I can’t avoid this. Help
2026-09-23 17:23:34
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Gdeezy :
That’s how I am about mammogram.
2026-09-24 01:15:23
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Janelle | Cozy Glam Taurus🐆🤎 :
This was me !! I ended up getting the lab work done on a full panel with EVERYTHING and come to find out I was all in range thank goodness!!! So I already set an appt for next year in Sept so that way I don’t procrastinate
2026-09-23 06:56:39
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✨️Bexs :
medication helped me
2026-09-23 17:14:13
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urfavegirl13 :
This was me few days ago , i was convinced that my kidney is failling . get mybtest done finally all came back normal 😭😂
2026-09-23 23:00:28
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Sarah Edwards :
Me right now, having extreme health anxiety and still organising scans seems like the hardest thing in the world, I feel like I’m just waiting to be told I’m dying
2026-09-23 10:11:24
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Kimberly Dawn :
This was me before my first colonoscopy. I worried about it for YEARS. The closer I got to the age I knew I’d have to start getting them the more all-consuming the fear and worry was for the prep and the results. Thankfully neither were bad at all. In fact it honestly couldn’t have gone much better. Now it’s time for blood work I’ve been putting off for waaaay too long. The cycle never ends 😭
2026-09-24 02:40:44
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Iman :
Or finally going and being referred even if the doctor says it's just to be sure....pure panick
2026-09-22 20:30:26
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____lady_d_ :
and when you start feeling all the symptoms and you don’t know if they are actual symptoms or just the anxiety 🤷🏼♀️
2026-09-28 17:41:48
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Triquetra83 :
Me. Always. I had an mri on my head and had a cage over my head. When I came out I immediately felt cold and couldn’t stop my body from tensing and jolting. It took a good 20 mins before it stopped. Had the same thing when I had my first ever blood test done. Because of this I have blood tests done, and I’ll see the doctor, but avoid going to the gp for any potential red flags to avoid the onward referral for further testing. My body clearly cannot take it.
2026-09-24 18:01:02
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KathleenLewz :
The story of my life 😭
2026-09-24 05:55:58
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tinamariegj :
Any tips on how to stop extreme fear of routine medical tests?
2026-09-23 04:04:08
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April 🇨🇦 :
Yup. My whole life. This spring I finally did first mammogram. I’m 9 weeks post op for breast cancer surgery. Sometimes the anxiety fears come true.
2026-09-27 21:42:55
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Ntorothy Sam :
Someone an advise for this ? 😏 I’m suffering from this too
2026-09-23 21:23:29
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T69 :
This is me right now 😫
2026-09-23 15:39:42
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theosvuls :
this is me tomorrow!
2026-09-23 04:23:06
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sullyismypet :
Same. Waiting for skin biopsy results. It’s been 10 days (still counting) of stress
2026-09-23 17:21:38
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Kristie Aldhous :
oh god its the worst
2026-09-23 20:35:08
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Kim :
Just had heart tests last week. 10 weeks for the results! I burst into tears when they told me.
2026-09-23 13:24:50
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Olivia-Mae :
I need my gallbladder removed iv got to surgery day and backed out because my anxiety is bad and now iv been re referred in terrified to even have a blood test in case they find something 😭
2026-09-23 15:48:12
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cocothegoldie :
oh this is soooo meeee
2026-09-23 02:46:06
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Min74 :
This is me. Put off having rheumatoid arthritis blood tests for 6 months incase they find something else 🤦🏽♀️
2026-09-25 21:24:51
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user7639959969779 :
This is me waiting for a hospital appointment 😞
2026-09-23 06:51:23
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