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COVID-19 and Health Anxiety

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COVID-19 and Health Anxiety

According to Anxiety UK.org “Health anxiety is an anxiety condition that is often housed within the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) spectrum of disorders. Those affected by health anxiety have an obsessional preoccupation with the idea that they are currently (or will be) experiencing a physical illness.”

COVID-19 and Health Anxiety

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