This happens to me a lot and it drives me insane. The first this happened to me, was because I “noticed” a bump on my nose (that had actually been there all the time), and I became convinced that it was a new thing and that I was dying. I was fixated on it for a while until I eventually realized that my nose had always been like that. It was my health anxiety. 

And this happens to me a lot. I focus on certain “flaws”, not exactly because I’m insecure, but because I immediately worry they might be something serious but then it turns out to be nothing. It sucks because my brain bombards me with questions like “has it always looked like this?” “it definitely looks worse” “this is not what it looked like before” and it’s extremely exhausting, I feel like it’s just draining all my energy lately. 

Does anyone else deal with thoughts like this? And what do you do to fight the urge to compulsively check on yourself?