re: Health related anxiety

Bumping this thread as the information has helped me greatly. I had bad health anxiety 5 years ago after my parents divorce and with time it went away. Now, with the birth of my amazing 4 week old son, anxiety is heightened with me hyperfocusing on health because I want to be there for wife and baby(hopefully more babies one day!). Went to doctor and they did every blood test, physical, etc. and said i'm in perfect health but I convince myself I am not.

I'm in therapy and it is helping immensely but I am very worried about taking an SSRI and how that may effect me even more negatively. So for the time being I am attacking my anxiety and facing it head on to put it down.

Anyways, thanks for this post and letting me vent.