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Anxiety getting pretty bad..

I'm a 16 year old male, I was diagnosed with anxiety about 7 months ago. I mainly have health anxiety or hypochondria. I've spent over $3,000 in doctors bills over the past 7 months because of false self-disgnosises. I thought I was having a heart attack several times because I'd get chest pains and shortness of breath. I got testing done and there was nothing wrong. Then I though I had appendicitis, and then brain tumor because I got persistent headaches and sudden anisocoria.

All of the imaging and doctors appointments is what costed me all that money.

Now I just have this constant fear of death that just consumes me. Like I just feel like at anytime, my heart could stop, I could stop breathing, I could get a ruptured brain aneurysm. And more and more countless things. It feels like everything I do is risking my life. Even just climbing stairs I just imagine myself falling down and snapping my neck and dying. Just small things like that.

How do I live life by ignoring all of these thoughts?
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It's not so much ignoring them as demystifying them.  Therapy with someone who specializes in anxiety treatment can help you learn to do that.  
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Is there a school counselor that you can talk this over with? You need some therapy to help you take a different view of your health, and the counselor is the first place to start as they may refer you if they are not able to resolve it.
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