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What It Can Look Like Causes Of Health Anxiety Constantly worrying about your health.

Frequently checking for signs of illness (e.g. lumps, pain, tingling).

Needing constant reassurance from health professionals that you are not ill.

Obsessively looking up health information (e.g. watching health news or googling symptoms).

There is no clear cause for health anxiety, however there are some risk factors that have been identified which include: Health anxiety is the experience of believing there is an existing or imminent threat to your health. The

key however, is that the threat is a perceived threat, with the worry excessive and out of proportion.