Hello everyone! I try to summarize my experience.

I have been suffering from health anxiety for over a year and I practically feel that it has completely shut me down: I am not able to get out of this vicious circle: anxiety causes me physical symptoms, physical symptoms cause me fear that i may have a fatal disease and this fear causes me anxiety. 

I had another extremely similar episode in 2015, when everything was solved after I managed to have a healthy relationship and also find a well paying job. My question now is: should I wait and hope that this process will end naturally or should I accept my doctor's advice and begin taking Cipralex/ Lexapro? My current biggest fear is that I will have to take it for a long time, which I am not comfortable with at all. I just don’t like pills of any type. 

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Thanks :)