For some reason you think your heart isn't beating properly. Your health anxiety kicks in and you insist to yourself that you need to check your pulse and monitor your heart rate. You put your fingers over your wrist or neck and wait. Is it still beating okay? Yeah? Probably or you'd be on the floor right now. But it's the kind of health anxiety like that that changes our behaviour from balanced, normal person to nervous wreck in just seconds. Thump thump thump thump thump... Does this sound alright to you? I'm not so sure.
8. You Decide To Be Your Own Doctor And Examine Yourself
Because we can't seem to trust our own doctors anyway and sometimes they're not always at hand. So you set aside some time to examine parts of your body and over-analyse everything into a whirlwind of worry. You seem to forget that you're not a qualified doctor and you know, quite frankly, sweet FA about real medical problems. Oh no, we've found a bump! Let's examine the whole area. Never mind that it's almost certainly something that's meant to be there like, I don't know... a muscle. Just don't go and do something silly like consider purchasing a blood pressure monitor from the internet.
7. Apparently You're Dying Of Everything In Existence
Today you think you're dying of cancer and tomorrow it might switch to being on the brink of a heart attack. Quite often you will wonder whether you have both and more. Over the space of six months you might have 'diagnosed' yourself with dozens of health conditions and diseases. But how many people do you know have died of five kinds of cancer, heart disease, a blood clot and smallpox all at the same time? Just watch out because next week it's bound to be that weird tropical fever you have yet to know about. Just don't turn the TV on tonight and watch that travel documentary.
For some reason you think your heart isn't beating properly. Your health anxiety kicks in and you insist to yourself that you need to check your pulse and monitor your heart rate. You put your fingers over your wrist or neck and wait. Is it still beating okay? Yeah? Probably or you'd be on the floor right now. But it's the kind of health anxiety like that that changes our behaviour from balanced, normal person to nervous wreck in just seconds. Thump thump thump thump thump... Does this sound alright to you? I'm not so sure. 
Today you think you're dying of cancer and tomorrow it might switch to being on the brink of a heart attack. Quite often you will wonder whether you have both and more. Over the space of six months you might have 'diagnosed' yourself with dozens of health conditions and diseases. But how many people do you know have died of five kinds of cancer, heart disease, a blood clot and smallpox all at the same time? Just watch out because next week it's bound to be that weird tropical fever you have yet to know about. Just don't turn the TV on tonight and watch that travel documentary.