yes for example with my health anxiety i actually routinely tell myself when i obsess over a new symptom and start checking over and over again that i do have an illness and disability - but it’s an invisible disability ocd i also remind myself 1 when the symptoms start usually it’s after i google a disease or see a list of symptoms of a scary disease and 2 that in the past two years i have convinced myself i have 4 different neurological conditions breast cancer brain cancer ovarian cancer melanoma basal cell carcinoma a stroke and plenty other diseases i always end up leaving with a diagnosis of “anxiety” i think sometimes it helps to just breathe and remind myself that it’s my anxiety and ocd causing these scary symptoms… even though my brain always doubts and never will listen to reason lol