
You’re about to learn how to finally overcome your Hypochondria and free yourself from all the pointless worry of convincing yourself that you’re sick, ill or even dying.
I know the pain of this problem. I went through it myself for most of my life. Here I’ll be showing you how to naturally and effectively overcome your Hypochondria and put this terrible worry to rest. Let’s get to it!
Hypochondria tends to be somewhat of an afterthought when it comes to treating anxiety. Afterall, aren’t we supposed to worry about our health? Isn’t it good to stay on top of our bodies and be alert for any alarming “symptoms”?
If you suffer from Hypochondria, then you probably know otherwise. Personally, I used to TORTURE myself with thoughts of illness at even the slightest abnormality.
Every time my glands swelled up, I swore it was a tumor in my lymph nodes. Every time I had a sharp pain, I was convinced it was an early sign of stroke or aneurism. Each gas pain obviously signaled the start of a heart attack. Any kind of experience with night sweats convinced me that I somehow contracted HIV.
All of this worry over my health and this was happening at the age of 27 no less! 27 – when the body is at its absolute peak performance and I was inventing magical ways to convince myself I suddenly had HIV.
I remember, any kind of sexual experience (of course it was protected) I had during the height of my hypochondria was followed by days if not weeks of worry about how I must have contracted a sexually transmitted disease in some freakish, accidental way.
I would lose sleep over the worry until I finally cracked and visited a doctor about my concerns.
Really, I’m not being honest enough here. I had my doctor on speed dial.
Every dry patch of skin was suspect. Each time my eyes would become red or irritated, I swore my eyes must be deteriorating. Any new freckle was inspected for days under magnified mirrors. Heaven forbid I had a cold that lasted longer than a few days – it had to be pneumonia…duh!
Does any of this sound familiar?
Hypochondria can really impair your day to day living because it completely immerses your brain with worry. You have no real scientific data backing your medical concerns but suddenly YOU know more than any doctor out there.
You MUST be dying right? I mean, you just FEEL IT right? You just know and you can’t get rid of this feeling like SOMETHING has got to be wrong with you. Why can’t you shake this worry away once and for all? Ughhhh!!!
Stop Carrying Around Your Worry
Stop Carrying Around Your Worry

The definition of hypochondria is “an excessive preoccupation with one’s health”. That definition always stikes me as a little humorous. Really, it just doesn’t depict the severity of this problem.
Having Hypochondria is like carrying around your worry everywhere you go. It weighs you down and steals your attention. You can’t focus because you’re so consumed with whatever life-threatening disease is around the corner.
Put Your Worry Down!
The fact is, you’re probably going to live for a VERY long time. More than likely you’ll live to an average age of 80 and life will be fortunate to you every step of the way. The world is filled with billions of people and if you find any comfort in statistical data, know that the chance of you catching some obscure disease or health problem is miniscule so long as you’re not putting youself in the position in the first place.
Actually, people with high levels of anxiety are the MOST meticulous about taking care of themselves, seeing a doctor once a year and taking steps towards improving their health. Just you reading this article alone is enough to tell me that you care about your own well-being.
Strategies for Overcoming Hypochondria
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September 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Do you have nore cognitive strategies for hypochoriacs to employ?
December 30th, 2009 at 9:26 am
U r a great guy.Same thing happens to me.When my heart pounds when I m at rest ,I search the web,and it’s full of nonsense.I went to the head of the cardiology for this and he said,it is only psychological,then I went to my psychiatrist,he increased my dose and now I m fine.These guys on the internet show you the worst case scenario.I don’t konw why?
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:49 am
yes i use to go on the web and go to the GP for test and i thouth that i was a hypochoriac until i found out what i had panic and anxiety i am fight it with panicawy
March 31st, 2010 at 1:50 am
I had this little yellow streak in my eye,which looked like some film was on top of it. I went to some medical online forums, they all told me it was jaundice/liver problem. I bought so many special veggies , fruits, drinks to get rid of it. I went to the doctor and the problem with my eye was it was really dry. Then I went to an eye doctor site where they actually have the picture of the dry eye I have.
Secondly, I am 27 and I had a small pain that felt like a strain in my lower abs. I thought it was appendix and I was dumb enought to go online where everyone tells me thats what it is. It was only a small strain that lasted about a few days.
Thanks for the site!