[BaseballPhysics]

> Why calm down yourself when you feel unwell?

Clearly you've never been debilitated by health anxiety.

Every story like this comes with ten more about someone obsessively ruminating about symptoms that turn out to be nothing, not least specifically because of horror stories like yours.

There is no one right answer for all situations. But as someone who struggles with health anxiety, it really fucking sucks and yes, there are damn good reasons to seek relief from that sense of constant and unrelenting dread.