How do you cope with having health problems as someone with severe anxiety? How do you not hyperfixate?
I have some health issues (ehler's danlos syndrome, chronic pain, a "seronegative unspecified autoimmune disorder", marked generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, and most recently narcolepsy) and I really struggle with interrupting the anxious thoughts. I've read a lot of ways in which people can manage health anxiety as a healthy person, but I haven't found a lot about how to manage it with health problems. My main issue is that even though there are plenty of explanations for symptoms I have, I start to Google/Reddit search the symptoms and find something inevitably scarier that explains it SO WELL (according to my very anxious brain). How do you accept that you already have a diagnosis and it explains the issues you have, without trying to find a new diagnosis to explain the issues you have?
Currently, I am absolutely convinced I have CFS, and that is why I have chronic pain/fatigue and low endurance/weak muscles. Despite that the already diagnosed with tangible tests conditions are there and explain then symptoms. My anxiety laser focused on the condition that can't be proven or disproven, and the description of the symptoms is really up to interpretation. I already asked my rheumatologist who said my hypermobility explains the fatigue, and my symptoms don't really fit the CFS profile. I'm not getting worse, but my mental health is and that's making me as a whole worse. I still can't stop the compulsive need to keep reading, researching, and absolutely convincing myself. As a result, of course, I am even MORE aware of any physical sensations that are abnormal, and I'm more fatigued/tired because I'm more amped up and also very psychosomatic. I see a therapist weekly, go to group therapy, and am going to be trying Wellbutrin soon (but meds have never worked well for me, unfortunately - I'm still hoping...). It's not that I feel like my doctors are dismissing me - I have a good group that is very supportive and responsive. There's just this compulsive need to be "one step ahead" and perpetually prepared for the metaphorical other shoe to drop with some worse, more debilitating condition.
TLDR: what works for you to accept your diagnoses fit your symptoms, rather than trying to find new and worse diagnoses? How do you interrupt the compulsion to over research and self diagnose?