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Today we're talking about something that
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confuses a lot of people and honestly it
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confuses a lot of therapists, too. And
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that's the difference between panic and
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health anxiety. If you ever thought to
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yourself, "What if this is a heart
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attack? Or what's wrong with me? Or what
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if doctors missed something? Or what if
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this sensation means something that's
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seriously wrong?" And also experience
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sudden waves in of intense like physical
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distress that feel unbearable, you might
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have wondered which one you're dealing
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with. Well, panic and health anxiety
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often overlap, but they're not the same
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process in the nervous system. And
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knowing the difference matters not just
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for your understanding, but for healing.
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So today we're going to talk about why
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panic and health anxiety get confused
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and primarily how the fear system and
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the panic or grief system play different
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roles. What health anxiety actually is
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and how to tell which loop you're in. We
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know we've got this noisy part in our
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brain that will spin on repeat when
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we're obsessing about something that
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could potentially be wrong with us and
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we're afraid and we don't know what that
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is. And some of us might even jump into
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WebMD-ing ourselves, which is never a
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healthy loop to get into. And we're also
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going to talk about how treatment
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approaches differ. Of course, because
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I'm an EMDR therapist and this how I
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treat patients, how this can really help
