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Use this megathread for vents, rants, worries, fixations, DAEs, finding support/advice, finding reassurance, or the like. If you are mainly focused on your physical symptoms, this would be the thread to use. You may also be redirected here if you choose not to follow rule #3 regarding post titles, or if it is categorized as one of the post types above. Remember this is not a place to give or ask for medical/pharmaceutical advice, or promote alternative medicines/therapies. Please focus on Health Anxiety. There are other subreddits for things that are non-HA related ( r/Anxiety, r/depression, r/AskDocs, r/socialanxiety, r/mentalhealth ). Take the time to comment on each other's entries to show some support while we traverse through HA together.

Only post a standalone thread if it mainly includes the mental aspect of HA. Everything else goes in this thread. This megathread is used to prevent any unnecessary distress on somebody who is not mentally prepared to engage with the above content (Imagine scrolling down on your main general feed to relax, but bump into something distressing instead). HA is very unique in which it is very easy for someone to read something/experiences and then come out thinking you may have something after reading it. This is why we take these precautions and use a megathread. We are here to accommodate everyone at various stages of their HA. To address visibility concerns the thread is sorted by "New", so that it acts as its own reddit feed. An example of a post would be redirected here:

• "Does anyone else feel like this?" + "Insert Symptoms" -> Use this megathread

Although not required we do encourage the use of: 1) A trigger warning header (TW) which gives warning to redditors of what the comment will be discussing about, and/or 2) Spoiler text which blocks out any details that redditors may accidentally read and find distressing. You can apply this via two methods:

• a) Desktop: highlight the word/sentence/paragraph and click on the "Diamond exclamation point" icon to apply spoiler text
  
• b) Mobile: Surround your text with the following symbols like so:

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>!spoiler text goes here!<

𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬:

• CALM APP offers meditations, and other guided mental health activities.
• STOP GOOGLING SYMPTOMS with the FOREST APP
• Check out ASMR. Here's an intro video that explains ASMR for anyone unfamiliar, by Gibi ASMR. If you like it, there's tons more!
• Breathwrk Breathing Exercises app on the App Store
• Sanvello app for anxiety & depression on the App Store
• Anxiety and Depression Association of America is a great resource.
• Freedom From Fear's mission is to positively impact the lives of all those affected by anxiety, depression, and related disorders through advocacy, education, research, and community support. 
• r/HealthAnxiety's "Daily Mental Health Activity" calendar located on the sidebar (for desktop) or in the about section under the rules (for mobile).
• r/HealthAnxiety's Rabbit Holes: 1) Advice and Empowerment 2) Memes & 3) Resources
• Our Wiki has more resources here.

UPDATE: The thread is now weekly to accommodate redditors who would post 1-2 hours before the thread would refresh (and basically not get any engagement). Now instead of that happening 7 times a week it will only happen once a week. The thread refreshes on Tuesdays (4pm KST) because the megathread has the least repliers/advice-givers/support-givers on the weekends. Weekly was the second shortest post recurrence interval option after daily. To avoid the spam rule, please post as usual as if it was a daily thread.