Hi there,

I've had this problem since I can remember, I've been fighting anxiety in earnest for the past two years (since the pandemic started). A large issue I've had is I will have anxiety that I'm going to get sick, and then I have those symptoms, which makes the anxiety worse. I'm also going through the anniversary effect from 2020, where I was having panic attacks daily around this time in 2020.

Yesterday I was eating a chicken wing, and found a pretty sharp bone in it. I picked it out, everything was good. Then I had the thought, "what if I swallowed that?". The next piece I bite and chew is fine but I \*swear\* I felt something a little bit sharper go down. It was probably skin or a dry piece, but ever since then I've started having stomach issues. Cramping, bloating, only going in small bits etc.

Now that I'm feeling symptoms, it's feeding my anxiety saying its related. But I can't say to myself, its just anxiety and have it calm me down. Has anyone experienced this before? Where it feels like a feedback loop of getting anxiety about getting sick, which makes you anxious, that anxiety makes you feel sick, which makes you more anxious, which makes you feel worse etc.

I don't know how to break the loop, its extremely frustrating.