Reddit reviews Overcoming Health Anxiety: Letting Go of Your Fear of Illness
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Ugh, sounds terrible. So sorry you're going through this. We all have. I'm always here if you need to talk to someone who gets it. I've also got a great health anxiety book that really taught me ways of rewiring my thinking.
Here is the book. Happy to send to you if you think it might help. I'm not a mother but I can only imagine how bad the anxiety must get on top of looking after your family and worrying about them also.
I have primarily health anxiety myself and the best advice I can give you (or anyone!) is to stop seeking reassurance for any feeling or "symptom" you may have. It is the hardest but most effective thing you can do.
When you have a sensation that begins to trigger that reflex to turn to Google or whatever your reassurance behavior may be, let it float past as well as you can. This is going to be difficult at first, it will make the anxiety worse, but the more you practice the more rapidly it will improve. You will be retraining your brain to not be alarmed at the sensations you feel.
There are a lot of books on health anxiety. I just finished this one and I'd recommend it:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0056JX3QS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_y-FqDb1JTYT5P