{"id":917,"date":"2020-09-21T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/2020\/09\/21\/akki-ma-olen-haige-piret-annus-reinberg\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:19:30","slug":"what-if-im-sick-piret-annus-reinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/2020\/09\/21\/what-if-im-sick-piret-annus-reinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What if I\u2019m sick?!&#8221; \u2013 Piret Annus-Reinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to cope with health anxiety in these unusual times, and how to tolerate uncertainty in your bodily sensations, was discussed in the July issue of\u00a0<em>Eesti Naine<\/em>\u00a0by clinical psychologist Piret Annus-Reinberg of Studio Tasapisitasakaal and family doctor Dr. Tanel Laurberg.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy head hurts all the time\u2014what if it\u2019s a tumor? Now there\u2019s flickering in my vision! I need to call the doctor to check what\u2019s going on.\u201d Such thoughts often race through the mind of someone with health anxiety. While concern for one\u2019s health is sometimes justified, in health anxiety, constant worry and monitoring of bodily sensations significantly reduce quality of life. \u201cA person\u2019s productivity, well-being, and relationships may all be negatively affected,\u201d says clinical psychologist-psychotherapist Piret Annus-Reinberg. This kind of anxiety can affect people of all ages\u2014\u201cequally among men and women,\u201d she adds from her experience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more (in estonian): <a href=\"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tervisearevus_Eesti-Naine-07.2020-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tervisearevus (Eesti Naine 07.2020)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to cope with health anxiety in these unusual times,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasapisi.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}