Hi. I’ve been struggling with this for a while and I’d love to hear how anyone has worked past these thoughts. Here’s the situation: I have pretty bad health anxiety. I’ll get anxious thoughts about the worst possible scenario. Maybe my arm hurt for a second, maybe I got a little lightheaded, and I have to nudge anxious thoughts away. Usually I tell myself “it’s just my anxiety and nothing is wrong”.

Then of course there will be times I’m not thinking of anything but anxiety or stress will present physically. I have to tell myself “nothing is wrong, I’m fine” to prevent anxious thoughts from spiraling. 

But now, I constantly feel unsafe in my health. I have no grasp on what is or isn’t a concern when it comes to listening to my body. I can’t listen to what my mind says either. I try to talk rationally to myself but I don’t actually believe it.

Last ditch efforts of saying “I haven’t died yet” or “screw it, if I don’t wake up I don’t wake up” to just go to sleep only work so many times. I don’t know how in the world I lost such a fundamental belief about living.