'This year has been the worst for my heat anxiety'
Southampton woman Lauren has health anxiety that gets worse during the hot weather.
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"When it's hot the air feels different in your lungs. Your brain just starts going, 'Something's different - and therefore bad' even though it's not."
— Lauren Murphy , Other
"It really brought it all back. This year has probably been the worst."
— Lauren Murphy , Other
"Heat stress might to feel like anxiety, they have the same physiological response."
— Professor Ciara McCabe , Academic
"Being brave isn't the absence of fear. It's having that fear and doing it anyway."
— Lauren Murphy , Other
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Southampton woman Lauren has health anxiety that gets worse during the hot weather.
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