SO GOOD QUOTES

Leave all anxiety related forums and support groups. Leave them all. All of them. And when you leave them all, I want you to go ahead and look deeper into each and every one of them, and I want you to ask yourself the question of, ‘Is this helping me or is it just leading to me coping with something that I truly want to get rid of?’ It’s very important that you understand that there is a difference between healing and coping—coping means keeping around. If you want to cope with your health anxiety, you want to keep around the suffering. No, that’s not what we do here. We heal. In order to heal, we have to go beyond health anxiety.  We have to go beyond symptoms and effects and we have to focus on root causes. So leave all forums and support groups. Then, take a deeper look into each and every one of them and ask yourself, “Is this helping me or is this hurting me in the long run?”

—Dennis Simsek, HAP 50: Health Anxiety Do’s and Don’ts For Healing