I have health anxiety because I had a skin cancer surgery last year and complications came up after that. Just the other day I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed something that looked odd on my face. It doesn't look like much, but it freaked me out.

I then went to a casual friend at work and told him about it. He said - "oh stop getting yourself worked up about it. You are going to get an ulcer and that's going to be even worse! You will be sick all of the time!"

I told him (in a disapproving tone) that it's easier to say to "snap out of it" than it is to just snap out of it! He seemed apologetic after that. And then he told me that he is struggling with his wife because she has depression. She has depression because a good friend of her passed away a year ago due to cancer. He told me that he is trying to work with her on this. That was nice to hear from him because before he would tell me that it was hard for him to understand why she is depressed the way she is.