After another bout of health anxiety that sent me to the doctor's this morning over nothing I've had enough - it's impacting on my social life, my work life, my happiness, my enjoyment of events and my ability to make future plans. It's increasing physical symptoms leading to a vicious circle of panic, and I keep dragging my poor wife into my spirals of irrational bulls**t.

I know NHS services for mental health services are stretched, and I know people with anxiety way worse than mine who are in a state where they're actually a danger to themselves who have waited ages for CBT. Therefore, for my relatively low-grade anxiety, I'm not confident I'd get any help any time soon and figure I'll have to go private.

I was wondering what people's experiences of this for predominantly health-related anxiety was, and practical issues such as cost, how many sessions were needed, etc?