Health Anxiety Podcast Show

Dennis Simsek
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Every sensation becomes a question. Every answer brings relief until the next worry arrives. Join Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy, to understand health anxiety, symptom checking, Googling, reassurance seeking, and fear of illness. Learn practical ways to change your relationship with uncertainty and stop organizing your life around symptom fear. Explore the Health Anxiety Recovery Program: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program

  1. 3d ago

    Is Health Anxiety Keeping Your Nervous System in Overdrive?

    Stop Fighting Your Symptoms. Start Recovering. Break the cycle of health anxiety, body checking, and reassurance seeking with my Health Anxiety Recovery Program. Start Today: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Is Your Nervous System Stuck in Overdrive? The Health Anxiety Connection What if the very habits you're using to feel safe are actually keeping your nervous system stuck in overdrive? In today's episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, Dennis Simsek explores the connection between nervous system overdrive and health anxiety, including hypervigilance, fearful thinking, constant self-monitoring, and the protective behaviours that can keep your body feeling on high alert. You'll discover how your daily habits can reinforce the perception of danger and four practical changes that can help you break the cycle, rebuild trust in your body, and create a greater sense of internal safety. In This Episode, You'll Discover: Why your nervous system stays on high alert: How fear-based perspectives can cause you to interpret ordinary bodily sensations as potential threats. How hypervigilance reinforces health anxiety: Why symptom checking, monitoring your breathing, researching sensations, and reassurance seeking can keep you feeling unsafe. Why your thoughts keep spiraling: Understand how physical sensations, fearful interpretations, and anxiety can feed into one another. How to identify habits that keep you stuck: Recognize the daily behaviours that reinforce a constant state of alertness. Why changing your emotional associations matters: Learn to recognize the longer-term cost of behaviours that offer temporary relief. How to replace fear-based habits with healthier responses: Understand why slowing down and stepping away from constant monitoring can initially feel uncomfortable. Why nervous system recovery is a lifestyle: Create lasting changes through consistent daily choices rather than chasing temporary symptom relief. The key takeaway: Your nervous system responds to what it perceives as danger. When you stop reinforcing that perception through constant checking, fearful thinking, and protective habits, you begin creating the conditions for greater balance and trust in your body. You don't need to monitor every sensation or solve every uncomfortable feeling to experience safety again. My friend, you are more than anxiety. CONNECT WITH DENNIS SIMSEK | THE ANXIETY GUY Website: https://theanxietyguy.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanxietyguy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theanxietyguy DISCLAIMER The Health Anxiety Podcast Show provides educational content and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Host: Dennis Simsek | The Anxiety Guy

  2. Oct 23

    The ONLY Technique You Need for Health Anxiety Recovery

    Stop Fighting Your Symptoms. Start Recovering. Break the cycle of health anxiety, body checking, and reassurance seeking with my Health Anxiety Recovery Program. Start Today: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Stop Fighting Health Anxiety: The Blending Technique The more you fight anxiety symptoms, the more attention and importance you give them. It's time to change that pattern. In today's episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, Dennis Simsek introduces the Blending Technique, a practical five-step approach to reducing resistance, accepting uncomfortable sensations, and rebuilding trust in your body. You'll learn why constantly trying to eliminate symptoms can reinforce health anxiety and how responding with compassion rather than fear can support lasting recovery. In This Episode, You'll Discover: Why fighting symptoms keeps you stuck: How resistance and the constant need for relief can reinforce health anxiety. How to stop giving sensations so much importance: Break the habit of letting physical discomfort control your day. Why anxiety coping techniques don't always bring lasting relief: Understand the difference between self-support and symptom control. The five steps of the Blending Technique: Notice, meet, allow, soften, and return to life. How to stop checking whether a technique worked: Build acceptance without constantly monitoring your symptoms. The key takeaway: Health anxiety recovery isn't about eliminating every uncomfortable sensation. It's about changing how you respond so those sensations no longer control your life. You don't need to feel perfectly calm to start living fully again. My friend, you are more than anxiety. CONNECT WITH DENNIS SIMSEK | THE ANXIETY GUY Website: https://theanxietyguy.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanxietyguy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theanxietyguy DISCLAIMER The Health Anxiety Podcast Show provides educational content and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Host: Dennis Simsek | The Anxiety Guy

  3. Oct 9

    Why Your Anxiety Symptoms Keep Moving From One Place To Another

    Stop Letting Every New Symptom Control Your Life. Break free from symptom fear, body checking, and the endless need for reassurance. My Health Anxiety Recovery Program helps you retrain your anxious responses and rebuild trust in your body. TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE STARTING TODAY: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Why Your Anxiety Symptoms Keep Moving From One Place To Another One day it's chest tightness. The next it's dizziness. Then a strange sensation in your stomach, a twitch in your leg, or pressure in your head. Just when you begin feeling comfortable with one symptom, another seems to take its place. And the question begins: "Why do my symptoms keep changing? What if this one is different?" In today's episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, we explore why anxiety-related physical sensations can appear in different parts of the body, why your attention keeps getting pulled toward the newest sensation, and how this pattern can keep health anxiety alive. In this episode, you'll discover: Why symptoms seem to jump around — How stress responses, muscle tension, nervous system sensitivity, and heightened body awareness contribute to changing physical sensations. Why every new sensation feels threatening — How your anxious mind turns unfamiliar symptoms into new problems that demand immediate answers. The hidden symptom-scanning habit — How constantly monitoring your body can amplify sensations and keep you trapped in fear. Why reassurance never seems to last — How investigating each new symptom strengthens the very cycle you're trying to escape. How to break the pattern — Learn to respond differently without allowing every physical change to become another investigation. Here's the shift: Recovery isn't about making sure you never experience another uncomfortable sensation. It's about reaching a place where those sensations no longer dictate your thoughts, emotions, and decisions. You don't have to solve every sensation to reclaim your peace. My friend, you are more than anxiety. CONNECT WITH DENNIS SIMSEK (THE ANXIETY GUY) Website: https://theanxietyguy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanxietyguy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theanxietyguy DISCLAIMER The Health Anxiety Podcast Show is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult an appropriate healthcare professional regarding any specific medical or mental health concerns. Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy

  4. Oct 3

    Why You Still Fear Symptoms Even When You Feel Calm

    One sensation doesn't have to take over your entire day. My Health Anxiety Recovery Program gives you daily guidance to change how you respond to symptom fear, checking, and the need for reassurance. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Why You Still Fear Symptoms Even When You Feel Calm You're enjoying a quiet moment when a physical sensation appears. Suddenly, your mind asks: "But I wasn't anxious so how could this be anxiety?" In today's episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, we explore why sensations during calm moments can feel so convincing, and how that confusion can pull you back into checking, searching, and needing reassurance. I'll share the distinction between feeling mentally calm and expecting a completely symptom free body, what happens when a familiar sensation becomes an investigation, and how to create space before following your usual fear response. We'll also explore a different way to recognise progress, one that allows you to return to your day without waiting for every uncomfortable feeling or unanswered question to disappear. My friend, you are more than anxiety. Connect with Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy) Website: https://theanxietyguy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanxietyguy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theanxietyguy Disclaimer The Health Anxiety Podcast Show is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult an appropriate healthcare professional regarding any specific medical or mental health concerns. Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy

  5. Sep 11

    Is ChatGPT Making Your Health Anxiety Worse?

    Tired of asking one more question just to feel reassured? My Health Anxiety Recovery Program helps you practise a different response to uncertainty, with daily guidance for breaking checking and reassurance habits. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Is ChatGPT Making Your Health Anxiety Worse? For years, one of the most common health anxiety habits was Googling symptoms. Now, that same reassurance-seeking pattern may be showing up through AI. You notice a sensation, ask ChatGPT what it could mean, feel reassured for a moment, and then return with another symptom, another question, or another "what if." It can feel harmless—even responsible—but repeated reassurance can quietly teach the brain that uncertainty and bodily sensations still need to be checked before you can feel safe. In today's episode, we explore how AI can become the new form of symptom Googling, why reassurance brings temporary relief but often keeps the health anxiety cycle going, and how your inner protector can convince you that asking "just one more question" is necessary. You'll also learn how to use AI in a healthier way: for education, perspective, reflection, and recovery support rather than repeatedly trying to prove that every new sensation is safe. The goal isn't to stop using AI. It's to change the relationship you have with it so that it supports greater trust, uncertainty tolerance, and independence rather than another checking habit. Connect with Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy) Website: https://theanxietyguy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanxietyguy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theanxietyguy Disclaimer The Health Anxiety Podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult an appropriate healthcare professional regarding any specific medical or mental health concerns. Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy

  6. Aug 21

    What If This Symptom Is Actually Something Serious?

    Does every sensation pull you into another "what if"? My Health Anxiety Recovery Program gives you a structured path to work on catastrophic thinking, symptom checking, and the fear that keeps interrupting your life. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program What If This Symptom Is Actually Something Serious? One of the most convincing thoughts in health anxiety is: "What if I leave this symptom alone and this time it actually is something serious?" Suddenly, checking feels responsible, Googling feels necessary, and seeking reassurance feels like the safest choice. In today's episode, we uncover why the mind keeps labeling each new sensation as "different," why certainty never seems to last, and how repeated checking can strengthen the very fear you're trying to escape. You'll learn how to recognize the health-anxiety loop, respond to symptoms from greater trust rather than immediate fear, and begin separating genuine body awareness from the urgent need for certainty. The goal isn't to ignore your body. It's to stop automatically treating every unfamiliar sensation as evidence of danger. Connect with Dennis Simsek - The Anxiety Guy Website: https://theanxietyguy.com Instagram: @theanxietyguy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnxietyGuy1 Facebook: The Anxiety Guy X / Twitter: @The_Anxiety_Guy Disclaimer The health anxiety podcast show is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any specific medical or mental health concerns. Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy

  7. Aug 15

    Health Anxiety: The 6 Words That Will Set You Free

    You don't need an answer to every anxious question before you start living again. Practise changing your relationship with uncertainty through the daily guidance in my Health Anxiety Recovery Program. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Description: Health anxiety has a powerful relationship with uncertainty. The mind wants answers. It wants to know why a symptom is happening, whether you are completely healthy, whether the sensation will go away, and whether you can finally relax. But sometimes, the constant need to know becomes part of the cycle itself. In today's episode of The Health Anxiety Podcast Show, Dennis Simsek explores six simple words that can begin changing your relationship with uncertainty: "I don't know, and that's okay." These words are not about giving up, ignoring your health, or pretending that everything is fine. They are about loosening the exhausting need to solve, predict, analyze, and control every experience happening within your mind and body. In this podcast episode, you'll discover: Why the need for certainty can keep health anxiety alive. How constantly trying to understand every symptom can increase monitoring and fear. Why "I don't know" can be a powerful response to anxious thoughts and bodily sensations. How allowing unanswered questions can reduce reassurance seeking and compulsive checking. Why uncertainty does not automatically mean danger. How to stop making peace dependent on knowing exactly what is happening. Why accepting uncertainty creates more room for living, movement, connection, and trust. How to use these six words when symptoms, health fears, or intrusive questions arise. Resources & Links 🌿 Health Anxiety Recovery Program: https://anxietyguyprograms.com 🤝 Health Anxiety Recovery Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university 🎙️ The Anxiety Guy YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy 𝕏 X: https://x.com/theanxietyguy If this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who feels trapped by the need to know, analyze, or control every sensation and uncertainty. Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. New, concerning, or worsening symptoms should be assessed by a qualified healthcare professional. This episode focuses on changing your relationship with health anxiety and uncertainty after appropriate medical evaluation.

  8. Jul 24

    9 Hidden Attachments That Keep Health Anxiety Alive

    Waiting for perfect certainty or a symptom free day can keep life on hold. My Health Anxiety Recovery Program gives you daily practice to loosen checking and control habits and make more room for living. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program Description: Health anxiety is not only kept alive by fear. It can also be sustained by the things you believe you must control, avoid, achieve, or hold onto before you can finally feel safe. You may feel attached to eliminating every symptom, finding the perfect diagnosis, recovering as quickly as possible, or using worry to protect yourself from being caught off guard. But the tighter you hold onto these demands, the more pressure, monitoring, and fear your nervous system experiences. In today's episode of The Health Anxiety Podcast Show, Dennis Simsek explores nine attachments that can quietly keep health anxiety alive, even when you are actively trying to recover. In this podcats episode, you'll discover: Why avoiding discomfort teaches the brain that sensations are dangerous. How attachment to a fast recovery creates pressure and constant progress checking. Why needing to eliminate every symptom keeps your attention locked onto the body. How worry can feel protective while reinforcing a constant expectation of danger. Why searching for the perfect diagnosis can keep doubt alive after appropriate medical evaluation. How comparison disconnects you from your own recovery journey. Why inherited family and cultural beliefs may continue influencing your relationship with health and fear. How people-pleasing keeps the nervous system under pressure. Why letting go of anxiety and control can feel frightening when they have become familiar. Letting go does not mean becoming careless, ignoring your body, or pretending discomfort is enjoyable. It means loosening the belief that you must control every sensation, answer every uncertainty, and remove every trace of discomfort before you can live freely. Recovery becomes more sustainable when your safety is no longer dependent on perfect symptoms, perfect certainty, perfect progress, or perfect control. Listen now and begin recognizing the attachments that may be keeping the health anxiety cycle alive. Resources & Links 🌿 Health Anxiety Recovery Program: https://anxietyguyprograms.com 🤝 Health Anxiety Recovery Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university 🎙️ The Anxiety Guy YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy 𝕏 X: https://x.com/theanxietyguy If this episode helped you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who feels trapped by the need to control every symptom, outcome, or uncertainty. Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. New, concerning, or worsening symptoms should be assessed by a qualified healthcare professional. This episode focuses on breaking the health anxiety cycle after appropriate medical evaluation.

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Every sensation becomes a question. Every answer brings relief until the next worry arrives. Join Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy, to understand health anxiety, symptom checking, Googling, reassurance seeking, and fear of illness. Learn practical ways to change your relationship with uncertainty and stop organizing your life around symptom fear. Explore the Health Anxiety Recovery Program: https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/health-anxiety-recovery-program

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

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