Living with a chronic illness often leads to health anxiety, a common response characterized by fear of disease progression or recurrence. While mild health anxiety can be manageable, it can become problematic, resulting in intense distress and affecting one's quality of life. Evaluating these fears and learning to manage health anxiety can help, but for some individuals, this fear is overwhelming and persistent. Effective psychotherapeutic techniques are available to address problematic health anxiety and improve mental well-being.
Living with chronic illness can cause our fear alarm to be very sensitive—and with good reason. Anything that reminds us of our suffering can trigger health anxiety.
Problematic health anxiety results in long-lasting, intense distress linked to depression and diminishment of quality of life, suggesting the importance of effective management.
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