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r/healthanxiety

› Welcome to a place for everyone who identifies with having health anxiety, is an ally of someone with health anxiety, or just wants to learn more about our growing community. We coalesce here to reclaim control of our lives through: education, sharing experiences, sharing management techniques, sharing resources, exposing stigma & norms, and advancing the discussion & awareness around Health Anxiety (a.k.a. Illness Anxiety & Hypochondriasis) in its many forms in our own societal realms.

// MEMBERS
156,935
› subscribers
// POSTS_INDEXED
876
› analyzed records
// COMMUNITY_AGE
13y
› since 2012-11-24
// STATUS
[ok] active
› feed indexed
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// Recent posts in r/healthanxiety

[ latest we indexed · by upvotes ]
  1. 01 STOP USING CHATGPT OR ANY AI FOR YOUR HEALTH ANXIETY OR ANYTHING AT ALL ↑ 231 · 2026-11-05
  2. 02 Chatgpt made my health anxiety way worse ↑ 74 · 2026-11-03
  3. 03 Delete ChatGPT? ↑ 19 · 2026-11-03
  4. 04 How does one deal with distressing "what-if" thoughts when one is almost certain that the cause is something benign? ↑ 8 · 2026-11-04
  5. 05 Tw! Breast c**ncer ↑ 7 · 2026-11-04
// RELATED_COMMUNITIES [ 12 communities · health & fitness ]
// FAQ [ 3 entries ]
01 › What is r/healthanxiety about? [ expand ↓ ]
r/healthanxiety is a Reddit community with 156,935 members. Welcome to a place for everyone who identifies with having health anxiety, is an ally of someone with health anxiety, or just wants to learn more about our growing community. We coalesce here to reclaim control of our lives through: education, sharing experiences, sharing management techniques, sharing resources, exposing stigma & norms, and advancing the discussion & awareness around Health Anxiety (a.k.a. Illness Anxiety & Hypochondriasis) in its many forms in our own societal realms.
02 › How active is r/healthanxiety? [ expand ↓ ]
r/healthanxiety has 156,935 subscribers and 876 posts in our index. It was created on 2012-11-24, 13 years ago.
03 › Which subreddits are similar to r/healthanxiety? [ expand ↓ ]
Other Health & Fitness communities of a similar size include r/dermatologyquestions (164,371 members), r/blackskincare (163,561 members), r/pmdd (163,098 members), r/workouts (161,059 members). Each is listed with its own subscriber and post counts in the related communities section above.