Hypochondria has been around for hundreds of years – but is the expansion of the wellness industry fuelling an increase in ‘the nervous well’ and making us all anxious?
27-year-old Cecily* has all the time struggled with “debilitating” health OCD. “It can make me feel like I continually need reassurance on a regular basis that I’m not going to die,” she says. While Cecily has grappled with these feelings since being diagnosed with a chronic illness at 15, she feels as if society’s mounting obsession with ‘wellness’ has exacerbated her existing anxieties. Notably, at one point she became fixated on tracking all of the health data available on her Apple Watch. “I used...
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