Yes, it is common for people with anxiety to get anxious about their symptoms. Please see your doctor. You need to add therapy to your treatment.
Yeah it's normal, I've health anxiety, and evry new symptom for me must be serious and decessive, sometimes I know I'm wrong or its irrational, but ... I don't have 100% control over my mind, only dumb people believe that they do, but sometimes being dumb is relaxing.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.