Health anxiety

[ami01]

Hey I suffer from health anxiety and my new recent fear is leukaemia, as I have about 10 scatter tiny purplish bruises on my legs. I've looked up the symptoms of it of course and I have no other leukaemia symptoms, but I am still freaking out slightly. Even though I'm pretty sure I have had these before for years :/

[Chiliphil1]

I think this is common among us anxiety sufferers, what I did was force myself to look at the total picture.

You have 1 symptom, how many do you not have?

Just because you have 1 symptom of something doesn't mean you have it, there are many things that have to line up for it to be the worst case. The one symptom you have, how many other illnesses does it also go with?

I had to learn to do this too, it isn't easy, but just start weighing in mind the symptoms you have vs the ones you don't, eventually you will start to believe yourself.