Health Anxiety Podcast Show

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There's been a lot of confusion and frustration lately about health anxiety. Personal success stories and outcome focused answers are hard to come by, and people are growing more and more frustrated. Dennis Simsek (AKA The Anxiety Guy) is here to show you the truth behind the root causes of your health anxiety, and guide you towards healing. From forums to online chat rooms, social media groups to conversations with others, health anxiety sufferers are not being provided the information and skills to eliminate their emotional and mental health struggles. That's where the Health Anxiety Podcast Show comes in. Get ready to join the thousands of other warriors worldwide, in becoming more than anxiety starting today. All updates and show notes for the health anxiety podcast can be found at DennisSimsek.com

  1. 4D AGO

    Health Anxiety OCD Cycle: Ways to Stop Rumination, Checking & Reassurance Seeking

    Health Anxiety Recovery Program: Break free from health anxiety with the Health Anxiety Recovery Program.  Health Anxiety Recovery Community (Join Us): Click Here to Learn More Description: If you're stuck in the health anxiety + OCD cycle, this episode will help you understand exactly what keeps it going: rumination, body checking, symptom Googling, and reassurance seeking. These habits feel protective in the moment, but they train the brain to treat uncertainty as danger, keeping your nervous system on high alert and making intrusive thoughts feel more believable. In this Health Anxiety Podcast episode, you'll learn: Why rumination isn't problem solving (it's fuel) How checking and scanning strengthen fear pathways Why reassurance creates short-term relief and long-term anxiety A practical, step by step way to respond to intrusive thoughts without compulsions How to rebuild trust in your body and tolerate uncertainty naturally Resources & Links: YouTube Channel: Watch weekly videos on anxiety recovery: The Anxiety Guy YouTube. Instagram: Follow for daily inspiration: @theanxietyguy. Facebook: Join our community: The Anxiety Guy Facebook. Twitter: Get the latest updates: @theanxietyguy. Support the Podcast: Rate and review on your favorite platform, and subscribe to The Anxiety Guy Podcast for more episodes. Connect with Dennis: Visit theanxietyguy.com for more resources and recovery programs.

    20 min

  2. FEB 20

    5 Questions That Will Start Rewiring Your Health Anxiety Beliefs

    Health Anxiety Recovery Program: Break free from health anxiety with the Health Anxiety Recovery Program.  Health Anxiety Recovery Community (Join Us): Click Here to Learn More Description: Health anxiety isn't only about sensations. It's about the meaning you attach to them. In this health anxiety podcast episode, I'm sharing five simple questions that start changing the belief system underneath health anxiety so you can stop living in reaction mode. What you'll learn: You'll learn how to identify the hidden assumption driving your fear ("this means danger," "this means damage," "I'm missing something," "I can't cope"), how to spot the reassurance rituals that keep the loop alive (checking, scanning, Googling, body testing), and how to make a clear choice in the moment: a safety deposit or a fear withdrawal. We'll also look at the real cost of treating every sensation like an emergency, and I'll give you practical "uncertainty reps" you can use today to retrain your nervous system and rebuild trust in yourself. This is a calm, grounded episode for anyone ready to stop chasing certainty and start living again. Resources & Links: YouTube Channel: Watch weekly videos on anxiety recovery: The Anxiety Guy YouTube. Instagram: Follow for daily inspiration: @theanxietyguy. Facebook: Join our community: The Anxiety Guy Facebook. Twitter: Get the latest updates: @theanxietyguy. Support the Podcast: Rate and review on your favorite platform, and subscribe to The Anxiety Guy Podcast for more episodes. Connect with Dennis: Visit theanxietyguy.com for more resources and recovery programs.

    16 min

  3. FEB 15

    Master Your Fear, Heal Your Health Anxiety

    Health Anxiety Recovery Program: Break free from health anxiety with the Health Anxiety Recovery Program.  Health Anxiety Recovery Community (Join Us): Click Here to Learn More Episode Description: In this episode of The Health Anxiety Podcast, we're getting to the real root of healing: mastering fear. Most people try to "fix symptoms" or "figure out what's wrong"… but health anxiety isn't maintained by symptoms, it's maintained by the meaning you attach to them and the fear-response that follows. Inside this episode, you'll learn: Why fear (not the body) becomes the real problem How symptom-checking, reassurance, and scanning train the brain to stay on alert The shift that begins true health anxiety recovery: responding with safety, not urgency A simple practice to start weakening the fear loop today If you've been stuck in cycles of "what if," Googling, body-checking, or needing certainty before you can relax, this one will meet you exactly where you are. 🎧 Listen now, and when you're done, share your biggest clarity moment from this episode at the Health Anxiety University (link at the top). Resources & Links: YouTube Channel: Watch weekly videos on anxiety recovery: The Anxiety Guy YouTube. Instagram: Follow for daily inspiration: @theanxietyguy. Facebook: Join our community: The Anxiety Guy Facebook. Twitter: Get the latest updates: @theanxietyguy. Support the Podcast: Rate and review on your favorite platform, and subscribe to The Anxiety Guy Podcast for more episodes. Connect with Dennis: Visit theanxietyguy.com for more resources and recovery programs.

    9 min

  4. JAN 30

    Health Anxiety Realities I Wish Someone Told Me

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: From my heart to yours: if you're living with health anxiety, I want you to know you're not crazy, weak, or broken. You're stuck in a fear-and-checking loop that makes normal sensations feel urgent and dangerous. In this episode, I share the real realities of health anxiety, why it feels so real, why reassurance never lasts, how symptom scanning trains the brain to stay on alert, and what actually helps you start rebuilding inner safety. This is a grounded, compassionate reminder that recovery isn't about getting certainty… it's about changing your relationship with uncertainty and returning to your life, one moment at a time. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    15 min

  5. JAN 23

    Beyond Health Anxiety: Who Are You Without Fear?

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step by step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: If you struggle with health anxiety, panic symptoms, or constant fear about your body, this episode goes deeper than symptom management. Many people believe they're afraid of physical sensations, heart palpitations, dizziness, shortness of breath, brain fog, but the deeper truth is this: health anxiety is rarely about the symptoms themselves. It's about living in a constant state of fear and identifying with that fear as who you are. In this episode, Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy) explores the deeper work beyond health anxiety and why fear continues to repeat even when medical tests come back clear. You'll learn how fear becomes an identity, why both small fears and big fears stem from the same nervous system pattern, and how healing begins when fear is no longer treated as a threat to your self-concept. Using a powerful personal story and clear nervous system insight, this episode helps you understand the difference between experiencing fear and being fear, and how that shift alone can begin to regulate health anxiety, panic attacks, and chronic worry. This is not about forcing fear away or fixing your body. It's about changing your relationship to fear so your nervous system no longer has to stay in survival mode. If you're dealing with health anxiety symptoms, panic disorder, or fear of fear itself, this episode offers clarity, relief, and a new way forward. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    19 min

  6. JAN 9

    When I Stopped Being My Symptoms (And Health Anxiety Began to Fade)

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step by step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: For years, my health anxiety wasn't just something I experienced, it felt like who I was. Every sensation in my body felt personal, meaningful, and threatening. Dizziness, heart sensations, fatigue, and breath changes didn't feel like passing experiences; they felt like proof that something was wrong. In this episode, I share the shift that began to change everything for me: moving from being inside my symptoms to witnessing them unfold. This wasn't about ignoring sensations or forcing calm. It was about changing my stance from identification to observation, and how that single shift softened fear, reduced hypervigilance, and allowed my nervous system to feel safer again. We explore why health anxiety often turns symptoms into identity, how survival mode keeps sensations feeling personal, and why healing begins not by getting rid of symptoms, but by no longer becoming them. If you've ever felt trapped inside your body, constantly monitoring sensations and searching for certainty, this episode offers a grounded perspective that may help you step back, create space, and begin relating to your body differently. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    14 min

  7. 12/26/2025

    Why Negative Medical Tests Don't Calm Health Anxiety

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step by step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: If you have ever received normal or negative medical test results but still felt anxious, unsettled, or unable to relax, this episode is for you. Health anxiety often persists even after reassurance, and many people are left wondering why clear scans, blood work, or doctor visits fail to bring lasting peace of mind. In this episode, Dennis Simsek explores why reassurance does not work for health anxiety at a nervous system level. You will learn how the inner protector keeps worry alive, why the body continues to scan for symptoms even after being told you are medically fine, and how identifying as a worrier can quietly reinforce anxiety over time. This conversation gently explains why health anxiety is not a logic problem, but a learned survival pattern rooted in perceived danger and uncertainty. Dennis introduces the Middle Way approach to health anxiety recovery, showing how healing happens when we stop chasing certainty and stop fighting symptoms. Instead of reassurance seeking or avoidance, this episode focuses on rebuilding safety by changing your relationship with worry, sensations, and uncertainty. You will learn how allowing the body to experience discomfort without monitoring or control helps retrain the nervous system and reduces anxiety symptoms naturally. This episode is for anyone struggling with ongoing health anxiety, fear of symptoms, reassurance seeking, or the constant "what if" thoughts that return after normal medical tests. If you are looking for a gentle, practical, nervous-system-based approach to health anxiety recovery that does not involve force, pressure, or constant fixing, this conversation will meet you where you are. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    13 min

  8. 12/19/2025

    The One Thought Pattern Holding You Back from Healing Health Anxiety

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step-by-step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: All or nothing thinking is one of the most invisible patterns keeping health anxiety and nervous system dysregulation alive. In this episode of the health anxiety podcast show, we explore how turning healing into a pass or fail test quietly keeps the body in survival mode, even when you understand anxiety intellectually. When symptoms, emotions, and sensations are constantly evaluated, judged, or measured, the nervous system never receives the message that it is safe. You will learn why this thinking pattern is not a flaw or a mistake, but a protective response that developed over time. We discuss how all or nothing thinking conditions the body to believe that safety only exists when you feel calm, symptom free, or "better," and why that expectation creates ongoing tension, monitoring, and self-doubt. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive → 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support → 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    18 min
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There's been a lot of confusion and frustration lately about health anxiety. Personal success stories and outcome focused answers are hard to come by, and people are growing more and more frustrated. Dennis Simsek (AKA The Anxiety Guy) is here to show you the truth behind the root causes of your health anxiety, and guide you towards healing. From forums to online chat rooms, social media groups to conversations with others, health anxiety sufferers are not being provided the information and skills to eliminate their emotional and mental health struggles. That's where the Health Anxiety Podcast Show comes in. Get ready to join the thousands of other warriors worldwide, in becoming more than anxiety starting today. All updates and show notes for the health anxiety podcast can be found at DennisSimsek.com

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  • Creator
    The Anxiety Guy
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    The Anxiety Guy © 2024
  • Show Website
    Health Anxiety Podcast Show

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