TAPP #60 - Sensitive to the Word Cancer
On episode #60 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I talk about why anxiety sufferers are so sensitive to the word cancer. We receive 2 million bits of information from our external world every second. A health anxiety sufferer can distort, delete, and generalize this information to suit their anxious identity. They may perceive and blow up a natural bodily sensation as being life threatening, or unconsciously ignore information that doesn't suite their current values or beliefs. When a health anxiety hears someone mention a life threatening disease, they become alert and concerned because they believe to be unhealthy themselves. I also talk about how health anxiety sufferers can lesson their emotional reaction to the word cancer and live a more stress free lifestyle.
