I was wondering if this is common in bpd. I have bpd and for the last year I've been dealing with severe health anxiety. I get obsessive thoughts about certain illnesses. I notice weird symptoms in my body that I cannot explain and they frighten me (e.g. pain or numbness in certain body parts). Then I get panic attacks, I feel like suffocating and this takes over my whole day/week. This is a pattern that comes and goes (it gets worse for a period of time, then it's like I forget about it, then it comes back again and the cycle goes on). I've been told that the symptoms in my body are a result of somatization (this means that I experience psychological stress in the form of somatic symptoms). Is somatization common in bpd?