For years now I have been battling with anxiety. I thought I was getting stronger. Turns out I’m still the same. A couple of years back I had really bad anxiety during a stressful time. I became obsessed with my bodies health and what was happening to it (take it in mind I was going through puberty so weird bodily changes are bound to happen). I convinced myself that I was going insane and that the physical symptoms I was having meant that I was dying of a disease. They physical symptoms and my fear of Contamination were driving me insane which drives the physical the physical symptoms more. I became terrified of sleep as I was convinced I was going to die although I was healthy. I would force myself to stay awake and wake up in a cold sweat and panic attack throughout the night if I ever fell asleep. When I woke up in the morning my first thought was “I survived” then I remembered that I would have to face the day again. I was once cut myself because I convinced myself I was poisoned from a pen. During a panic attack the only logical thing that came to mind was that I needed to cut myself to check that my blood was okay. I recovered from that extreme anxiety once the stressful time was over and was diagnosed with anxiety and OCD. However, recently I have been experiencing many symptoms such as heart palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea, twitches, buzzing and more. Logically I know these are due to anxiety but my mind is taken over by the fear that I am dying. The people around me try to convince me that I am not and I am perfectly healthy, that I need to stop panicking. But I can never seem to shut my overthinking brain up and working myself into a panic. I’m fed up of being hypersensitive to my body and waking up everyday anxious. I’ve been promised that I’ll be able to go to the doctor once this is all over to put my mind at ease. For the meantime I’m not sure how to cope. Any advice?